They looked so manky and worm-eaten* but clearly they want to grow up to become giant beans?
•might've been maggots
#Allotment #germination #savedSeed

Germination achieved for 'Mikado' (a potato-leaved heirloom and possible ancestor of 'Brandywine'), 'Honey Drop' (an open-pollinated yellow cherry touted as tasting like white grapes), and 'San Marzano' (a plum choice for canning). #tomatoes #garden #gardening #seedlings #germination #vegetables #allotment

https://www.europesays.com/1905969/ Phytotoxic effects of petroleum hydrocarbons on germination and growth of the native halophyte Salicornia sinus persica in oil contaminated soil #CrudeOil #CrudeOilPrice #EnvironmentalSciences #Germination #HalophytePlants #HumanitiesAndSocialSciences #multidisciplinary #NSalicornian #OilPrice #petroleum #PetroleumHydrocarbons #PlantSciences #science

Let's plant some seeds!
#Germination nation!

Because sometimes seeing is believing, here are my seeds, placed in a small plastic bag and juice box. #germination #gardening #plants #food #tomato #peppers #garden #Summer2025

Will start onion seeds later this week for #zone7a
Time to find and rig up my homemade seed starting rack/lights set up…. Maybe someday I will lay down the big cash for that specialized one, but maybe I’ll just keep on being #thrifty .

Waiting for seeds to germinate is like …
Come on! Come on! I’m waiting!

The seeds say:
We’ll come when we’re good and ready and not a moment sooner

#seeds #germination #gardening #Allotment
#patience

Waiting for my tomato seeds to germinate

Waiting

Still waiting

I do have lettuce, leek, cabbage and pepper germinating but ...

My latest #gardening project is a seed #germination box. It’s got a plexi top, an inner plastic dome over a 72-cell plug tray, and a heat mat that keeps it a steady 80°-85°. Started it a couple weeks ago and almost everything has sprouted! Most in less than half the expected time. These are #peppers and #tomatoes. I’ve had trouble growing them in the past, until the season was half over. Looks like this is the ticket!

#Teasel seeds sprouting from an old #seedhead, in the #SensoryGarden at #WWTCastleEspie.

Resilience. École Marie Skłodowska-Curie, Auch, France, September 2019.
Emmanuel Veneau (cc by-nc-sa) #AmbulationsPhotographiques #AsTheDaysGoBy
#photography #plant #blur #germination

Siegmund, Moeller, Eckhart, & Geber leverage long-term demographic observations and experiments in the winter annual Clarkia xantiana to test if bet hedging explains germination patterns in the California winter annual plant. Read now ahead of print! https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/726785

Mes #semis ont germé ! Comme ma #serre n'est toujours pas opérationnelle, et que chez moi il fait trop sombre, je les ai emmenés chez mon maître de #stage qui les accueille dans sa serre.
#graines #plantes #plantules #germination
#agriculture #bio #maraîchage #JdF

An April 19th review of what has germinated and been identified in the front #meadow ( #BeeLawn ):

In order of prevalence.
Dwarf Farewell-to-Spring (Clarkia a.)
Baby blue-eyes (Nemophila menziesii) (Starting to bloom)
Seablush (Plectritis congesta)
White Meadowfoam (Limnanthes alba)
Blue-eyed Mary (Collinsia parviflora) (Blooming)
Miniature Lupine (Lupinus bicolor)
Yellow rattle (Rhinanthus minor)

A volunteer Geranium sp.

These are some of the new #FoodPlants I will be #growing this season. I add a few new to me varieties, each year. These are all from my fave #SeedsSource - #SaanichOrganics - very high #germination rates. Way better than #Westcoast Seeds packs! #HighlyRecommend their #GMOfree seeds.

Me, addressing a nearly 3-week-old stack of ziplock bags containing damp paper towels and some not-very-viable seeds:
Look, you guys, I'm not going to be able to help you unless I see proof of life within the next 24 hours.

My immediate supervisor (grabbing the phone out of my hand):
Dammit, you know we don't negotiate with terrorists!

#Gardening
#SeedStarting
#GrowYourOwn
#Germination
#SeedTrials
#IShouldaJustCompostedThemAlready
#HopeSpringsEternal