Germination

Germination is a great way to make sure your seeds are 

started before you wait valuable garden space on dead seed.

Germination is also a good way to test posted dated seeds.

my wife and I had different versions fo the same method 

to germinate seeds. Both of which seemed primitive looking back.

First method  : 

Version A

paper plate

paper towels

seeds 

water

Version B

Pie pan (foil)

2x sponge

seeds 

water

method :

dampen  paper towels / sponges.

add 1 on plate / pie pan

place seeds in a signal layer on towel / sponge

add layer 2 of towels/ sponges

keep wet 

check every 24 hours 

second  method:
Not all that impressed with the first method ,
after all i learned it as a little kid. i went on line.
first i found a lot of the same method as above..
At that point i started looking at hydroponics .
That was the golden ticket. A teacher posted a
video on starting bean sprouts in coin tubes.
He used cotton balls as the base and just added seeds.
I had to try it and bam !! No pumpkin
So i cut the coin tube out and what do you know
Victory!
after some playing around with it.
I found that a shot glass with a cottonball
in the base filled just over the top of the
ball with a seed on top worked great.
I did end up putting a second ball on top and
adding a tad more water. With amazing
results.
I was like combining the first and the
new method and it works perfect

Problem
! seed at a time

Pro
almost always works
.