Identifying vegetable seeds 101

Posted by Daenerys Targaryen May 20, 2020

Identifying vegetable seeds 101 - Part I

I always thought writing is easy and is as simple as putting pen and paper together. Especially for some one who like to read. I realized how wrong I was once I actually started writing this blog. Writing about any subject is a lot harder than just talking about it, at least for me. When I write my brain goes a lot faster than my hand does and the result : missed words, wrong punctuation etc. I do try to go back to my postings and edit as much as I can but then new ideas pop up and I get caught up on that and then mostly end up writing an entirely different post. Well .....for you my reader I will try my best.

Identifying what some of the vegetable seeds look like might be a great way to start your foray into gardening. Below are some of the seeds that I have in my seed stash. I usually keep my seeds in a ziploc bag and label them. This will help me keep the seeds in an airtight environment and the transparent ziploc bag helps me see what the seeds look like inside and in what condition with out needing to open them.

I took all the below pictures from my seed stash. There are thousands of vegetable seeds out there. I only attempt to show a few common vegetables that we can grow here in East coast.

Fennel (Foeniculum vulgare)

Pumpkin (Cucurbita pepo)

Yard Long beans - green or Asparagus beans (Vigna unguiculata sesquipedalis)

Both red and green yard long beans are vigorous climbing annuals and produces violet-white flowers. They start producing pods/ beans around 2 -3 months after planting. Like the name suggests the beans are about 15 - 30 inches long and is widely used in stir fries. The seeds of both the red and green asparagus beans are the same size even though the pictures I took below looks slightly different in size.