Store Resources

Retailers that have placed orders within 15 months will be included in our retailer store listing on plantgoodseed.com. If we have neglected to include your business in our directory, please contact us and we will add you. If for some reason, you do not want to be included on our store directory, just let us know and we will remove you.

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Seeds have a 15 month shelf life. We place a sell by date on the back of every packet. 

Seeds are a living organism and stay viable the longest when they are in a temperature controled environment. Try and keep your seeds away from inclement weather such as water, direct sun, excessive heat, humidity, or dampness. The seeds tend to interpret those conditions as "It's time to wake up!" and lose their viability quickly. See our note on ideal seed storage conditions.

Taking Inventory of your seeds / some guidelines (this document can also be downloaded as a PDF)

We sell seed packets year-round and encourage our stores to keep their seed racks up all year. Sometimes customers will buy packets to give as gifts or for use in the following seasons or simply pick up certain seed varieties for their seasonal association. For instance, pumpkin seeds tend to sell well in the fall even if they are summer grown, and “winter” squash is often purchased in the winter (even though it is also a summer grown crop).

Nevertheless, seeds do have a seasonal sales cycle. January through early June are our busiest months of the year. This is followed by a summer lull (July/August). We usually get a sales pickup in late August through mid-September as folks start thinking of their fall gardens. Sales are generally quiet from October through December, before they start picking up again in January.

We have created Planting Charts that you are free to print/reproduce for use in your store location. You can also use these as a guide for seasonal ordering.

We manage our inventory at five stores in Ventura County. Here's how we do it:

We maintain a simple Excel (or Google Sheets, or Apple Numbers, etc.) list of the varieties each store carries. When we take inventory at a store, we print out this list and place it on a clipboard with a pen. We count varieties on the store rack row by row, taking note of any varieties we have THREE packets or less of (including ones completely out of stock). Some stores sell through specific varieties faster, so we occasionally take note of FOUR packets or less. Customers browsing the rack will sometimes pick up packets and then put them back in a different spot than they originally were. As we count, we check behind the front packet of any given variety to make sure it’s not accidentally obscuring a different variety. When we are finished our inventory, we create an order to restock 10 packet bundles of any given varieties that need restocking.

How do we organize our seed racks? We use a simple CROP VARIETY taxonomy - e.g. Calendula, Resina - and place the packets alphabetically row by row based off crop name. This photo illustrates an inventory sheet / stock take at a store we maintain in Ojai:

As you RESTOCK your rack with bundles of seeds, keep the older stock in front and place the newer stock in the back. First in, first out (FIFO). That will ensure the seeds are sold through in a fashion that minimizes waste.

Feel free to adopt these practices for your store, or if you need help from us assembling a simple inventory worksheet, let us know.