Daniel's Pacific NW Garden

Petaluma Seed Bank, Baker Creek Seeds.  1.6.18  Last weekend I was in Petaluma, CA, and remembered the Baker Creek Seed Bank store is th...

"Flagpole Giant Green Onion" seeds Greek Oregano Seeds Peppers are germinating My garden calendar for this week said...

Pink Banana Squash image from wikipedia Searching the web, I found seeds for pink banana squash.  Cucuberbita maxima .  My dad's a...

Spring Seed Planting These are the seeds I planted in the past week. Alyssum and Bonanza Mix Marigolds in the tomato bed.  They spro...

Very happy with this project.  I'm learning which seeds to plant when Spring arrives.  Also learning refinements on how to test them. ...

Most of the seeds from the first batch are done. It might be early to terminate the test. But I got what I wanted and for the most part do...

Not sure about these Chinese beans.  But it's just 2 days.  Some are swelling.  Maybe a sign of life. The squash are sprouting.  Di...

I have a lot of seeds from previous years. There is more planting room this year. I want to test some of them for viability, use them if t...

These are the wild plum seeds I opened 2 months ago and placed into the fridge in a moist paper towel, sealed in a plastic ziplock sandwich...

The Pepper Seeds continue to incubate. I think one seed sprouted so far - a cayenne. This method makes it easy to observe the results witho...

I wondered, just how warm is the heating mat. I placed a thermometer between the mat and the thin kitchen towel that covered it, left the t...

This is planning WAY ahead, but having played with seeds I wondered what are the best dates to start vegetable seeds. The information below ...

Interesting result so far. I planted Sunday am, now it's Tues pm, roughly 60 hours. Chinese Parsley 2005 0/10 Gambo Pepper 2004 ...

As planned, this is the start of the germination testing for old seeds. The objective is to determine which packets might as well be compos...

Order from Burpee came in the mail. I felt like a kid on Xmas day. Even though I ordered them myself. All as ordered. The warming mat wil...