2025 SGGN List and descriptions of crops available to Seattle Giving Gardeners in April 2025
Seattle Giving Garden Network (SGGN) will be distributing plants from their Sprouts program to gardeners in Seattle that are growing food to donate to food banks and other food distribution locations. Here is a list of the plants that will be available in April from Sprouts. For more details about growing the crops to maturity there is a link to the appropriate page on the suppliers website (High Mowing for all except the two varities from Territorial).
On the High Mowing you can scroll down the page for ‘Seed Specifications” or “Growing Information” and click on the “+” to open up the detail. On Territorial they can scroll down and see “More Information”.
If you are a giving gardener and wish to be notified when the Sprouts are available then send an email to info@sggn.org. Include the name and location of your garden and where you donate along with your email address and you will receive a notification.
ASIAN GREENS: Mizuma, Komatsuma, Yukina Asian Greens, Tat Soi Asian Greens
GREENS: White Stemmed Pac Choy, Prized Pac Choy, Green Wave Mustard Greens (Territorial Seeds)
LETTUCE: Rouge D’Hiver, Romaine-jerico, Winter Density, Optima
KALE: Lacinato, Siberian
BROCOLLI: Kailaan Sprouting, Waltham 29
OTHER: Cabbage-Quick Start (Territorial Seeds), Champion Collards
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Kit
To Seattle Giving Gardeners,
We are please to inform you that this year Sprouts will be available at three locations: Heron’s Nest in West Seattle; Beacon Hill Sprouts; Maple Leaf Sprouts. As the weather warms up we expect to be distributing Sprouts over the next few weeks.
This information for your planning purposes so you can prepare your soil to receive these plants.
Heron’s Nest distribution will begin on the weekend of April 12th.
Beacon Hill distribution will begin on the weekend of April 12.
Maple Leaf distribution will begin on the weekend of April 19th.
All sites are growing the same set of crops which are listed here on the Seattle Giving Garden Network website, SGGN.org.
If you have not received an email from SGGN.org with this anouncement then we do not have you listed as a Seattle Giving Gardener. Send a message with your name, email address, garden name and where you donate to: info@sggn.org and you will received the next announcement with detailed information about where and when to pick up the plants.
Kit
Seattle Giving Gardeners
Sprouts are now available for pick up at three locations.
Heron’s Nest Sprouts will be available for pickup from 10am to 12pm on Saturday, April 12 and Sunday April 13th. Also the following weekend on Saturday, April 19th and Sunday April 20th from 10-noon.
Heron’s Nest Sprouts is located at 4818 Puget Way SW. Drive in through the gate and park.
Beacon Hill Sprouts will be available for pickup starting on Saturday, April 12th from 9am to 7pm and each day afterwards until supplies run out.
Beacon Hill Sprouts are located at 1741 South Snoqualmie Street. The plants are located down the driveway to the left of the house. This is self serve. Please do not disturb the residences. Be sure and fill out the sign out sheets.
Maple Leaf Sprouts will be available for pickup on Saturday, April 19th from 10am to 2pm and Sunday April 20th from 2pm to 4pm.
Maple Leaf Sprouts are located at the Fairview Church at 844 NE 78th St. Enter the parking lot on NE 79th street.
At all locations, use the sign-out sheet to let us know what you have taken. Enter your garden name, your name & email address along with how many pots you have taken of each type.
Please return the 4″ plastic pots and the white plastic labels so we can reuse them.
Bring boxes for carrying the pots. Do not take our plastic trays, we are running low.
We are so thankful to you for tending these plants, growing them to maturity and donating the harvest to the Seattle Food Banks and food needy people.
The Sprouts Team
Kit
April 22nd, 2025 Sprouts status
To: Seattle Giving Gardeners,
This is the third Sprouts announcement. Plants are available only at Beacon Hill and Maple Leaf.
Beacon Hill Sprouts will be available for pickup from 9am to 7pm every day until 7pm on Thursday May 1st. See below for a list of crops available.
Beacon Hill Sprouts are located at 1741 South Snoqualmie Street. The plants are located at the end of the driveway to the left of the house. This is self serve. Please do not disturb the residences.
Maple Leaf Sprouts will be available for pickup this weekend on Saturday, April 26th from noon to 2pm. Another distribution on Saturday, May 3rd noon to 2pm and Sunday May 4th from 2pm to 4pm. See below for a list of crops available.
Maple Leaf Sprouts are located at the Fairview Church at 844 NE 78th St. Enter the parking lot on NE 79th street.
Heron’s Nest Sprouts all have been distributed.
Beacon Hill Sprouts: number of pots and crop names. Each pot has 5 plants.
• 5 Broccoli
• 39 Cabbage
• 15 Collards
• 5 Siberian Kale
• 0 Lacinato Kale
• 66 Red Romaine Lettuce
• 0 Jericho Romaine Lettuce
• 40 Winter Density Lettuce
• 30 Optima Butterhead Lettuce
• 30 Mustard Greens
• 0 Komatsuma Asian Green
• 8 Mizuna Asian Green
• 6 Tatsoi Asian Green
• 20 Sunset sweet Chard
• 30 Fordhook Chard
• 50 Pac Choi Prized
• 40 Pac Choi White Stem
• 24 Savoy Asian Green
Maple Leaf: number of pots and crop names. Each pot has 5 plants.
• 9 Broccoli
• 62 Cabbage
• 82 Collards
• 0 Siberian Kale
• 0 Lacinato Kale
• 0 Red Romaine Lettuce
• 258 Jericho Romaine Lettuce & Winter Density & Optima
• 56 Mustard Greens
• 33 Komatsuma Asian Green
• 43 Mizuna Asian Green
• 32 Tatsoi Asian Green
• 123 Sunset sweet Chard
• 54 Fordhook Chard
• 51 Pac Choi Prized & White Stem
• 40 Pac Choi White Stem
• 0 Savoy Asian Green
If these times are not convenient and you want to schedule a pickup send a note to info@SGGN.org with your request.
We are so thankful to you for tending these plants, growing them to maturity and donating the harvest to the Seattle Food Banks and food needy people.
The Sprouts Team
Brenda Amante-Howard
Just found out about the program. Do you do a second season sprouts?
Kit
Brenda, On Saturday, July 26th we plan a soil block project for Fall Starts. Send an email to info@sggn.org and let them know if you would like to be included. You will have a chance to build and plant your own soil blocks. Then take them home to tend and plant in your garden when they are ready.
Kit
Kit
The Magnolia Manor P-Patch giving garden donated 57 pounds of produce to the Ballard food bank today, May 19th, 2025. Two boxes of Pac Choy, one box of lettuce and one box of mustard greens are shown in the photo. Not shown but harvested was one large container of Kale and one of lettuce. All these plants came from Maple Leaf Sprouts on April 19th, one month ago, see the photo of the Sprouts. The seeds were planted in the Maple Leaf greenhouse about February 19th, two months ago. This is an example of how Sprouts provides a head start with healthy plants for the giving gardeners and how the gardeners grow and donate them to the food banks.