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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…
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Heron’s Nest starts growing at home
Thank you Brandy for submitting these fabulous photos! We love to see what the community is growing! Garden sign my daughter made announcing our new arrivals. New plant starts from the Heron’s Nest tucked into an existing home garden bed.
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Sprouts Growing Tomatoes
On April 28th the Sprouts volunteers transplanted 1000 tomato plants and placed them in the hoop houses. We put netting around them to keep the rabbits out. For the last three weeks the weather has been so cold that we have mostly kept the hoop houses covered. Now, as the weather turns warmer, we can uncover the hoop houses to give the tomatoes some welcome sun and warmth. We still do not know what day we will distribute the tomato plants. We are monitoring them and the weather.
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Planting quantity verse harvest quantity
Ever wonder how much produce your plot will produce when you plant seeds or seedlings? Diane Brooks from Delridge Giving Gardens sent us the results from their garden last year. Here’s some numbers from Delridge P-Patch Giving Garden that might help new gardens understand what they can expect from their plantings. The list is the plant, start or seed quantity = pounds harvested. For example, for 16 tomato plants, they harvested 58 pounds of fruit Plant # of plants or seeds quantity Pounds harvested tomato 16 plants = 58 pounds hot pepper 16 plants = 6 1/2 pounds beets 60 plants = 8 pounds zukes 3 plants 95 pounds Patty…
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SGGN Sprouts – Learn about our greenhouses!
Each February, community volunteers refresh their seed-sowing skills and begin planting lettuces, kales, beans, tomatoes, peppers, and other vegetable varieties that grow well in Seattle. As successions of seeds are sown in the greenhouses, winter blankets of burlap and leaves are removed from Giving Gardens in the city’s P-Patches. Starts continue to leave the greenhouse through late May and are distributed to waiting Giving Gardens across Seattle. The seedlings help extend the growing season and increase harvests, allowing more produce to be donated to food banks, shelters, and meal programs. Vegetable varieties are tailored to food bank requests and ensure that different cultural communities receive familiar and favorite foods. We…
