Note: This is a listing of seeds I sow for my plants sale and for my edible garden in 2026 starting with the most recent data to help me keep track of germination rate and for my plant documentaries.
Tomatoes: need to sow by 8/1 (beefsteak varieties indoor two weeks ahead of time) to sell within two weeks by week three
7. July 2026: Vacation mode
6. June 2026: Vacation mode
Pole beans: Bai Bu Lao: 6/4 direct sow 3 seeds in 5-gallon pot x2
Zinnias: sow 6/4 (for garden sitters)
- Z1. Pink (tray): Pink Senorita (variety)
- Z2. Purple: Benary’s Giant Purple
- Z3. Orange: Benary’s Giant Orange
- Z4. Blue:
- Z5. Green:
- Z6. Pink:
Heat-tolerant experimental vegetable trays:
- V1.1
- V1.2
- V1.3
- V1.4
- V1.5
- V1.6
- V2.1
- V2.2
- V2.3
- V2.4
- V2.5
- V2.6
- V3.1
- V3.2
- V3.3
- V3.4
- V3.5
- V3.6
5. May 2026: seeds sown 5/27
Direct sow: x2 JP Okinawan Pure White BM direct sow in square raised bed in backyard 5/27, 1 germinated by day 2 and transplanted ground by arched trellis.
4. April 2026:
- Seeds I Direct Sow: Purple Dove beans (4/23) in left raised bed next to arch, Lemon Basil randomly in tomato pots (4/26)
- Pepper tray 1: P1-P18 (4/23)
- Pepper tray 2: P19-P36 (4/24)
- Fried Chicken pepper tray: x18 (4/24)
Germination data: 30/36 pepper varieties germinated
- Grace’s Pretty Flowers
F1.
F2.
F3. - Ethan’s Pretty Flowers
F4.
F5.
F6. - Snow’s Edible Flowers
EF1.
EF2.
EF3.
EF4.
EF5.
EF6.
EF7.
EF8.
3. March 2026
Vegetables (sown 3/24):
V1-1. Broad Leaf Sorrel (poor germination)
V1-2. Crown Daisy (tong ho)
V1-3. Mizuna (Japanese summer mustard)
V2-O1. Baby Bubba Okra
V2-O2. Heavy Hitter Okra
V2-O3. Louisiana 16-inch Long Pod Okra
V3-B1. Yard long bean: Akasanjaku
V3-B2. Romano bean: Bai Bu Lao
V3-B3. Soybean: Tankuro
V4-A1. Pink Beauty Amaranth
V4-A2. Red Stripe Amaranth
V4-A3. New! Chinese Multicolor Spinach
V5-1. Gordini F1 lettuce
V5-2. Reno lettuce
V5-3. Deer Tongue Lettuce
V6-1. Spinach: Green Stem Malabar
V6-2. Spinach: Red Stem Malabar
V6-3. Vietnamese molohkhia (rau đây đỏ)
2. February 2026
- 36 Tomato Varieties (sown 2/11): Need to sow more of my favorite varieties due to customers’ requests
- Kids’ 18 Sweet Melon Varieties (SM) (sown 2/11): Reduce to 12 varieties next year – Make one tray for small size sweet melons, and the other tray for medium-large sweet melon varieties for next year. This year with all the difference sizes of melons mixed up in the listing didn’t make it easy for me to transplant.
SM1. Japanese Tiger Melon
SM2. Golden Crispy Melon (small)
SM3. Dino Melon
SM4. Kazakh Melon (small)
SM5. Golden Honeymoon Melon
SM6. Mango Melon
SM7. Tigger Melon (small)
SM8. Rich Sweetness 132 Melon
SM9. Hami Melon
SM10. White Lanzhou Melon
SM11. Diplomat Melon (Louann)
SM12. Lambkin melon (3/22)
SM13. Japanese “New Melon”
SM14. Sakata Japanese melon
SM15. Kajari Punjab melon
SM16. Thai Melon (transplant 3/22)
SM17. Ha’Ogen Melon
SM18. Kiwano Rund (jelly) melon
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- Kids’ 6 Watermelon varieties (WM) (sown 2/14): 3 small varieties and 3 big varieties
WM1. Lemon Drop
WM2. Black Jewel
WM3. Leanlanu Sweetglo
WM4. Orangeglo
WM5. “Whatamelon Hybrid” (cross between watermelon and sweet melon)
WM6. Gold in Gold Hybrid
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- Cucumber tray (sown 2/14):
C1. Good Luck F1 – abort
C2. Sikkim
C3. Jibai Shimoshirazu – abort
C4. Itachi F1
C5. Pale Armenian
C6. Armenian - Squash (Sq) tray (sown 2/14): Summer squashes are for spring, winter squashes are for summer – confusing huh?! =) – for next year, I need to make sure to sow 3 summer squashes first and then 6 winter squashes.
Sq1. Red Uchiki Kuro (winter) – I am growing this
Sq2. Zuchini Rampicante (summer) – I am growing this
Sq3. Shrek Hybrid (winter)
Sq4. Peanut (winter – pumpkin shape)
Sq5. Honeyboat Delicata (winter)
Sq6. Lemon Squash (summer) – I am growing this
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- Herb Basil (HB) tray (sown 2/14): Basil seedlings did not do well, start seeds in March instead.
- Herb (H) tray (sown 2/14): All herbs sprouted.
H1. Cilantro: Snow’s cilantro
H2. Cilantro: Leisure Splits
H3. Dill: Elephant
H4. Dill: Thalia (TBD)
H5. Parsley: Evergreen
H6. Sage: Broadleaf
H7. Culantro
H8. Lovage - Eggplant (E) tray (sown 2/16): No sales, so just sow one of each for my garden unless someone request for a seedling – sow in March instead of February when weather is warmer for faster germination result.
E1. Orient Express F1
E2. Millionaire F1
E3. Taiwanese Ping Tung
E4. Feng Yuan
E5. Casper
E6. Aswad
E7. Jewel Marble
E8. Listada De Gandia
- 1010 Spinach tray: Quit sowing cold-hardy spinach seeds in February (tested Winter Spinach, Kolibri F1, Tragopan F1 – germinated well but there were too many pest issues.)
- 1010 Mustard Greens tray: Only sow Mizuna and Red Giant Mustard, and new varieties in February
- 1020 Vegetable tray 1: Only sow Fujiyama F1, Tong Ho, aborted the others
V1. Cauliflower: Fujiyama F1 2/15
*V2. Yu Choy Sum Green
*V3. Choy Sum Purple
V4. (V6. Tong Ho (Crown Daisy) 2/15)
V5. Sorrel: Large Leaf 2/15
*V6.Chicory: Full Heart Escarole
V7. Kale: Black Magic
V8. Collard: Flash F1 - 1020 Kohlrabi tray: ( )
Result: Blauer Speck and Terek F1 are heat-tolerant and grew fast, aborted White Vienna, Purple Vienna, Azur Star, and Giant White. Test Beas F1 and Konan in fall.
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- Seeds Direct Sown: Carrots: Uzbek Golden, New Kuroda Shin, Rainbow F1, Glow Stix sunrise Mix (2/16), Daikons: D1-D4, Altari F1 (2/16)
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