Starting your veggie garden by seed is a rewarding experience which allows you to save lots of money when compared to buying seedlings. Starting your garden from seed takes some planning and also gives you the bug of trying out many varieties of veggies.

When I decided to begin my veggie garden from seed rather than seedlings I started looking not only for an affordable source of seeds but for more interesting varieties than can be found at your local hardware or garden centre. That is when I stumbled across www.theseedcollection.com.au.

What is The Seed Collection?

The Seed Collection is an Aussie website which provides a huge variety of vegetable, herb and flower seeds as well as some other accessories. As of writing their website offers some 473 varieties of vegetables alone and 47 tomato varieties and options alone! So you are spoiled for choice!

The Seed Collection claim that their seeds are “Heirloom, open pollinated, non hybrid and non GMO seeds with no chemical treatments”.

Heirloom and open pollinated are the most important words here. This means you are able to use the seeds from the fruit you produce to grow more plans in he future. Therefore you will only have to buy the one pack of seeds and continue planting that variety for years to come!

My Experience:

Having purchased seeds from The Seed Collection for the past 3 years, I can safely say that the plants these seeds produce are accurately described and there are no issue with getting high germination rates from these seeds, even after using open packets from previous years.



The seeds come in small heat sealed plastic bags with the name of the plant, sowing instructions, time to maturity/fruiting and a description of the variety. This makes it very easy to manage as all the information you need is on the small bag.

If there is one criticism with the packaging it is that the bags of seed are somewhat difficult to manage as they don’t reseal. I would love for the company to provide an optional way of easily cataloging and storing their seeds. However, I now just have a Tupperware container and have the open packets held together using sealing clips from Ikea. This keeps seeds from falling out and also lets you quickly identify open packets.

Tell em the price son!

Pricing is very reasonable with a packet of tomato seeds costing around $1-$1.30 for 50 seeds and other seeds are similarly priced. You can’t beat this pricing for heirloom seeds.

Postage for the seeds is very cheap at $2 or free if you spend over $20 and the seeds usually come in a standard DL envelope. Delivery is usually within 5-10 business days In my experience.

The Verdict:

Overall, buying from The Seed Collection is a great experience, they have a huge number of varieties of veggies, herbs and flowers for super cheap prices. Prices which places like Bunnings just can’t match.

The Seed Collection has a wealth of information including sowing charts which are designed for Australian gardens as well as a great blog with a wealth of information.

This review is unsolicited and I am not receiving any sort of payment for it. I just am very happy with this business and its products and am excited to share a great Aussie business with our readers.