Gardening in southern Humboldt County is serious business. Assuming your land isn’t having its sun blocked by giant redwood trees, you will have full sun that can actually be too much for fragile herbs and pepper plants. So gardens have to utilize pa...
Fun source for rare seeds - great germination rate
Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds, Bring Your Garden to Life
Great greenhouse for launching herbs and starters. Make sure you tie it down to an immovable bottom piece. I attach mine to a pallet and it’s never blown over
Sunnydaze Greenhouses
Grow your own tobacco! It keeps amazingly well and your friends will thank you! Good long term storage crop.
Rare & Heirloom Tobacco Seed Varieties
Jackie is a treasure and so are her seeds! You’ll find her monthly articles in Backwoods Magazine and she has some sturdy seeds in catalog
Seed Treasures | Open-Pollinated & Heirloom Seeds
One of the best garden stores in Southern Humboldt County!!
REDWAY FEED AND GARDEN - Updated April 2025 - Yelp - Yelp
Best garden starter selection in Northern California
Green Lot Nursery
Try to keep your tools in one place. The person that used to live at my house left his tools everywhere and I still find things outside. From machetes to hammers and screwdrivers I keep finding stuff in my yard!
Garden Spades & Shovels | Garden Tool Co.
You will always need something from tractor supply! They have everything from animal feed to seeds and gardening tools
Tractor Supply Co.
Rabbits are easy to care for and eat your weeds
Rabbit Cages - Bass Equipment Company
I learn a ton from them
Backwoods Home Magazine
Survival helped me build an incredible herb garden
Survival Garden Seeds - Non-GMO Heirloom Seeds for Home ...
Learn awesome homesteading concepts
Self-Reliance Subscription
You must have a good knife
Cold Steel Knife and Tool Company
Watering garden is essential. Careful not to waste water while you do it!
Lawn Sprinklers
Hoses that kink really aggravate! Starting garden season with good hoses can be a smart investment for anger management!!
Garden Hoses
More and more garden equipment is going electric. I don’t buy batteries at Costco anymore I believe you get better shelf life out of the batteries from Ace Hardware
Disposable & Rechargeable Batteries
During dry season it’s possible that fires can start when glass is left in the garden. Something that you might not think about is keeping an extinguisher in the tool shed. Having it near your gas cans would be smart
Fire Extinguishers
Getting flower pots of various sizes is a good way to make sure you always have the perfect vassal as your plants grow. Good luck predicting the sizes you’ll need! I keep a variety just in case
Pots & Planters at Lowes.com
This stuff is magic and you’ll find it at garden store everywhere green thumbs are welcome. My favorite aspect is you get the good starter nutrients without the darn weeds!!
