Johnny's Selected Seeds Reviews 18

I am shocked with the reviews on Johnnyseeds. I have been purchasing 150-200 in seeds every winter for the coming year and just placed my garlic order for this coming fall. I find the quality of their varieties great and the genetics seem proven. I guess experiences can vary but I have never had a bad experience with them.

Date of experience: June 24, 2025

One star from me, they are very unprofessional and liars...not recommend it to anyone!!!

Date of experience: June 23, 2025

there should be an option for zero stars. this is a horrible company with horrible customer service. today's date is may 2nd, 2025 and my seeds were supposed to have arrived by march 31st. 2025. apparently they were lost in the mail.. ok.. i'll bite. after calling customer service and getting several morons that are more concerned with their pronouns, i still do not have my replacement set of seeds. i was provided with a usps tracking number by one of the pronoun centered cust svc reps, and after 2 weeks of waiting, the usps has told me that johnny's seeds, out of maine, which prides itself on being an employee owned company, did not pay sufficient postage for the package, so it is now in some dead letter office. after writing several emails and leaving several messages with the csr dept because it always goes to vm, i am relegated to writing complaints about this company and tomorrow i will have to start a dispute with my credit card company to get my money back.. fun times for sure. there is a reason this clown-show-of-a-company has 1.8 stars.. it sucks

Date of experience: May 01, 2025

Purchased 4 packs of seeds, 2 “Big Beef F1” tomato & 2 “Pantera F1” jalepeno. Used a Burpee 72 cell seed starter, used this product for many years with great results. This year, rather than purchase seeds a local hardware, decided to try a “premium” brand seed. Mid-March planted the seeds, 2 or 3 each per cell, same process I have used every year. Day away from May & NOTHING, only one cell with two tomato sprouts! Call “Johnny’s” said they recommend using “lights”, keeping the soil warm…blah blah. Don’t recommend their products

Date of experience: April 27, 2025

Long delays with shipping, ridiculous shipping costs, website glitch makes it easy to ship to wrong address, horrible customer service, and poor germination rates.

Date of experience: July 10, 2024

I’ve gotten zinnia seeds from Johnnys for two years. My last order was for 2 thousand seeds. The envelope weighed 2 ounces. I took the envelope to my post office They said it cost no more than $5.35 to send it to me. Johnnys charged me $15.00. That’s my last order.

Date of experience: May 16, 2024

Received Norland Red Potatoes after April 1. Followed directions for Greensprouting from Johnnys on line. Sorry to say cut potatoes separated and calloused are starting to rot in cool temp in garage under light per directions. It was an attempt. Johnny's seed experience through the past years has been plus and minus with success. I tried this and won't repeat ordering potatoes. However, I have great success with Johnny's carrot seeds in the past. I'm hoping the onion sets succeed. Luck of the draw.

Date of experience: April 19, 2024

After a week of charging my credit card (still in pending and approved by citibank) they had not sent me the product because they required another payment method, but they had already charged me, when I contacted them they told me that they sent me an email, doubled checked my email and nothing. Very unfortunate that after a week they did not send me anything despite having collected the money and having the product available. Worse still that when I requested the cancellation they told me 4 times to give them another method of payment instead of canceling the order.

Date of experience: April 08, 2024

They failed to tell me I needed some sort of tax thing to be submitted so I had decided to cancel my order and they have failed to tell me about the information such as how long the refund process will take and if I will receive a email saying it has be refunded

Date of experience: February 17, 2024

Worst website ever! All I want is buy some veggie seeds. I cannot check out owing to a "secure" check out. It says the password is case sensitive. OK. What does that mean? Try all caps, no caps, all small font, both small an large caps, add a number, add %. Nothing works. Worst company ever. I will never purchase anything from Jonny's. All I wanted to do is buy 4 packs of veggie seeds for $23 plus shipping cost. No thank you...

Date of experience: November 05, 2023

Had Columbine Pink Petticoat in my cart, along with a total of $80 of other seeds, went to check out and got a message that it is no longer in stock and would not allow me to complete checkout without removing it from my cart. So, I did that and finalized my purchase. 3 days later that same seed packet was available again on their website. Went to buy the 1 seed packet and they wanted $6.50 for shipping ONE seed packet (Columbine seeds are super-tiny). Contacted support and they would not waive the shipping – no matter that their website forced me to remove it from my cart. Will never do business with them again.

Date of experience: January 30, 2023

I feel very bad about having to make this review, but it is important for customers to know the truth. The seed quality of Johnny's used to be very high, but it has really gone down the last several years. Germination well below 75% has been much more common when I order large lots of seed and I have lost hundreds of dollars as a result. I called Johnny's and asked them if they have any better germination, but when I talked with someone in the customer service department, they say that they'll let them know about the bad seed lots, but they continue to sell the bad seed. This has occurred more than once. How can they knowingly sell poor quality seed? I really don't know what to say. It doesn't matter what incredible varieties or what incredible seed people advertise, if the quality is poor. Sorry Johnny's, but you've lost my trust for good.

Date of experience: November 24, 2022

Disappointed! My brocolli rabe and bok choy seeds did not germinate leaving me without my favorite vegetables for the season.

Date of experience: June 15, 2022

My order for 4 each pepper and tomato seeds was received without incident. Germination has been a huge issue. For years I have used a seed planting mix successfully. Not so with Johnny Seeds. I plant two seeds per planting “bucket” with four buckets each for peppers and tomatoes. I had 3 seeds germinate out of 8 for the tomatoes and 1 seed germinate for the peppers. Of the Burpee seeds I planted in the same medium with the same growing conditions I had 100% germination. I shall remove Johnny Seeds from my list of seed suppliers. Very disappointing!

Date of experience: May 04, 2022

Always bought seeds from Johnny's for years but this year Johnny's blocked gardeners from making purchases and I had to go to other sources to be ready for planting. I will never depend on them again.

Date of experience: April 22, 2021

I always buy a large seed order for our community garden. But, without seeds available to gardens (although we have 2 acres and are small farm size), I had to move on to other companies. I love Johnny's but wonder what's happening there.

Hopefully, will be back next year.

Date of experience: February 20, 2021

I buy my seeds almost exclusively from Johhny’s. Initially, that was because of their large selection of herbs. I like their selection seeds & plants, and the large library of information available to customers. Johnny’s stands by their products.

Date of experience: July 16, 2019

Always receive quality service and seeds. Friendly customer service and prompt shipment

Date of experience: June 30, 2019