Through the summer and fall, I ordered myriad native plant seeds and I was not tracking exactly how many. In the last month, I have planted hundreds of seeds, with the last batch planted the week between Christmas and New Year’s. I used soil from the native plant garden. I hope that the more natural soil with fungi and bugs will suit the seeds better than a sterile mix. I could be way off. Time will tell.
We have had a mild winter so far and some of the seeds are already germinating. In particular, the Erythanthe guttata seeds are up in droves.
Here are some of the other pots with seeds planted recently.
The seedlings from prior plantings are doing well, benefitting from the mild winter. The Geum macrophyllum seedlings are particularly robust, with the fringecups, piggyback plants, and violets also doing well.
I recently looked at nursery licensing in Washington and was surprised it was not as expensive as I had imagined. It might make sense as a retirement activity for me to grow native plants and organic veggie starts and sell them from the house.