Here you’ll find all of my favorite supplies for gardening, flower arranging, cooking, sourdough, and whatever else I’m up to on Not Quite a Homestead.
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Seed Companies
I like shopping for my seeds online. Places like Amazon and Etsy can be hit or miss when buying seeds and tend to have lots of scammers on there. It’s safer to buy from reputable seed companies like these.
- Botanical Interests
- High Mowing Organic Seeds
- Pinetree Garden Seeds
- Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds
- Hoss Tools
- Park Seed
Seed Starting Supplies
You can find my seed starting guide here if you need it!
Bootstrap Farmer – I’m slowly upgrading all my seed-starting trays, domes, and pots to Bootstrap Farmer supplies. I just love all their colors and the quality of their products.
- The exact seed-starting bundle I have
- 2″ Soil Blocker
- 1020 Extra-Strength Trays: If you can only get one thing, get these.
- 5″ Seed Pots: for up-potting bigger seedlings
- 6 cell plug trays: the large holes on the bottom of these make it super easy to pop out the seedlings
Seed Organizer – A pretty way to keep my seeds organized and contained. I linked the exact one I have, which is fairly large, but they do make smaller ones like this.
Gardening Tools
Felco #2 Garden Pruners – The best pruners I’ve tried; also super heavy-duty and long lasting with regular maintenance
Gorilla Dump Cart – This is one of my favorite pieces of gardening equipment. I love the dump feature. So handy for hauling and dumping dirt or garden clippings, mulching, mixing potting soil or sifting compost into, and lugging my fig pots in and out of the garage.
Auger Drill Bit for planting annuals and bulbs
Half Moon Edger – for maintaining a clean, natural edge on garden beds
Stand-Up Weed Puller – I try to pull weeds by hand and avoid herbicide use; a weed puller like this helps me knock this chore out quickly and easily
Metal Bow Rake – We use this tool so much in the garden; it’s great for spreading mulch, soil and compost; also for de-thatching the lawn
Gardening Stuff
Garden In Minutes – Drip irrigation that is easy to set up; it’s amazing how much plants thrive just by getting the right amount of water at the right time
Hoselink USA – Love their retractable hose reels, but the best thing about Hoselink is their quick connect adapters. It makes it so easy for us to change out hose connections for our different sprinklers. Highly recommend if you are tired of reeling and untangling heavy hoses!
Rise Gardens – For hydroponic gardening indoor year-round
Stark Bro’s Nurseries and Orchards – Great place to shop online for fruit trees and shrubs
Rooting Hormone – For propagating plants
Greenstalk Vertical Planters – For small spaces, grow vertically. You’d be surprised at how much you can grow in one of these Greenstalk Planters! I have two just for strawberries.
Garden Tower Project – The only composting vertical garden around, to my knowledge. Like the Greenstalk, it has tons of pockets, but the best part is the composting tube in the center. Composts and feeds your vertical garden all in one place!
Atlas Gardening Gloves – My favorite gardening gloves are these. I have small hands, so it’s awesome to find a pair that fit like… well, like a glove!
Neptune’s Harvest Liquid Fertilizer – I use this on my plants, especially those in containers, once a week (Fertilizer Fridays!). I use the all-purpose (blue bottle) formula for healthy plant growth at the beginning of the season and then I switch to the Rose and Flowering (dark red bottle) formula once plants begin flowering and fruiting to encourage strong fruit and flower development. This fertilizer also works great for ornamental flowering annuals. I’ve used it indoors a few times and my houseplants love it, but heavily diluted because it does stink!
Espoma Organic Fertilizer – I use Plant-Tone or Garden-Tone generally for anything I’m planting in the garden, and I use Holly-Tone for anything that needs the nutrition and acid (blue hydrangeas and blueberries mostly).
Gardening Books
I wrote a whole post on my favorite gardening books right here.
Flower Arranging Resources
Most of the vases I give away come from Goodwill. I also save jars and put them inside pretty containers that aren’t watertight to turn them into “vases.”
Other than vases (and obviously flowers), there are a few things I like to have on hand for flower arranging.
- flower food (I get one of these every year)
- floral snips (I don’t really have a favorite)
- harvest bucket (any small bucket that holds water will work!)
- clear floral tape
This book helped me get started with flower arranging.
Sourdough Resources
Here are my favorite supplies for sourdough baking.
- Round banneton (I use the 9″)
- Oval banneton
- Cast iron Dutch oven
- Pullman loaf pans
- Beeswax wrap for wrapping bread in
I also have enjoyed and learned a lot about sourdough baking from reading these books.
Amazon Stuff
Some of my favorite finds on Amazon.
Kindle Unlimited (still one of my favorite ways to read new books)
ChiaoGoo Circular Knitting Needles – I’ve been slowly upgrading my knitting needles to these, project by project. I find circular needles to be so much more versatile, and I like that the two needles are always connected so that they never get lost! I use size 10.5 the most.