Daniel's Pacific NW Garden

 The seeding mat was a bit too warm, with a brief period up to 100F earlier this week.  For most of the seeds, it does not seem to have hurt...

 These are Shirley poppies.  It's interesting how many seeds one can collect from the pods, even though the pods seem small.  I'll c...

This Spring I planted some old Taiwan Sugar snow pea seeds that I saved about 6 or so years ago.  About 2/3 of them germinated and grew. The...

Shelled Bean Seeds.  10.4.16 Red Variegated Beans.  10.4.16  This year I decided to resurrect the Chinese pole beans (ChangChun Bea...

Single French marigold selected for seed saving.  8.18.16 Walking around,  but not a lot.  Temps above 100 F by afternoon.  I can handle...

Yellow Single Marigold.  9.19.15  Random photos. The heirloom french marigolds had some atypical plants.  A single yellow - the rest w...

Many flowers are setting seeds now.  For ornamentals, there is a choice between, letting them do their own thing, or deadheading to stimulat...

This is a concept, I am making up as I go along.  I expect it to evolve. * Each gardener has a local climate.  Also local soil, local mi...

Collected more seeds today. Saved them in regular postal envelopes. My seed box is a small wooden file box that I bought at a yard sale, g...