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Deno’s Garden helps you grow plants from seed, with germination instructions and a sowing calendar based on your last frost date.
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Germination instructions for anything that isn't a vegetable are published in about five incompatible notations, most of them abbreviations — and none of them tell you a date. A protocol that reads 70L(90% in 10-14 d) is exact, useful and unreadable, and it still doesn't say whether you have already missed this year.
This site stores each protocol as ordered steps with durations and temperatures, then walks them backwards from your last frost date to say when to begin. Some species need starting ten months ahead, and the ones that take two seasons are the ones every other tool gets wrong.
Every protocol shows the sentence it was built from, in the source's own words, one click away. Where two sources disagree, both are shown — nothing here is averaged. Where a record hasn't been checked by a person, no protocol is published at all.
1644 species have a reviewed protocol so far. Browse them all, or plan a sowing calendar from your zip code.
Worth knowing this week
- Quercus alba (Stave Oak): Sometimes called stave oak: its wood makes tight barrels for whiskey and wine, and it went into ships in colonial times. Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center: Quercus alba
- Quercus coccinea (Scarlet Oak): Best known for its brilliant autumn color: the leaves turn a rich scarlet red. It occasionally reaches 150 feet. Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center: Quercus coccinea
- Quercus phellos (Willow Oak): Its narrow, unlobed leaves look like a willow's, but the acorns and the tiny bristle at each leaf tip give it away as an oak. Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center: Quercus phellos
- Quercus rubra (Northern Red Oak): The northernmost eastern oak, and the most important red oak for lumber: flooring, furniture, railroad ties. Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center: Quercus rubra
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Keep a record of everything you grow: when each plant went in, where it is, whether it's in a pot or a bed, and a dated log of how it's doing.
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See plansNothing planted yet. Search above for a plant, identify one from a photo, or browse every species, then add it to your garden.
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