If you are like me you pick up packets of seeds over the year and find
you have them all over the place, often in places you can't find till
it's to late to sow them.
Any ideas on the best way to keep them all together.
I am wondering about one of those concertina document folders with
alphabetical sections.
David @ the sunny and now rain free end of Swansea Bay.

On 11/09/2012 17:44, David Hill wrote:
If you are like me you pick up packets of seeds over the year and find
you have them all over the place, often in places you can't find till
it's to late to sow them.
Any ideas on the best way to keep them all together.
I am wondering about one of those concertina document folders with
alphabetical sections.
David @ the sunny and now rain free end of Swansea Bay.

I keep most of mine in a big black plastic storage tub from Ikea. Have
done so for a number of years. Seems to preserve the seeds well enough
and is mouse proof. It is left in a cool (unheated) dry place.

The seeds I gather myself for storage such as runner bean seeds and peas
I store in the wife's old tights hung from the rafters in the attic
where they get plenty of fresh air but are dry and more or less frost
free. I once made the mistake of trying to store runner bean seeds in a
plastic tub (with a lid) and the following Spring the lot was one
rotting mass. So I always use a cool, dry, airy place for seeds with
high moisture content now and the big black Ikea storage tub for bought
packets of seed - which are dry enough not to rot.

Every month with the exception of December I thumb through every packet
in the tub and see what needs planting. There seems to be almost
something to plant every month. I guess a more ordered approach might be
to have one tub per month, but some seeds have two planting seasons.

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nurseries.co.uk says...

If you are like me you pick up packets of seeds over the year and find
you have them all over the place, often in places you can't find till
it's to late to sow them.
Any ideas on the best way to keep them all together.
I am wondering about one of those concertina document folders with
alphabetical sections.
David @ the sunny and now rain free end of Swansea Bay.

I keep mine in a narrow trough in the garage, just wide enough for most
seed packet to stand up in (excluding pea, beans etc, which are kept in
a cardboard box next to thetrough. I have a strip of card(cut up
Christmas card) for each month and elastic band to keep all the seeds
for sowing in one month together - I also note on the card which larger
seeds need planting that month.

System works quite well, and with things that you can plant over a
season (lettuce etc), I move them to the next month when planted, and in
the winter when checking which seeds need re-ordering, move them back to
the first month.

--
Roger T

700 ft up in Mid-Wales

On Tue, 11 Sep 2012 17:09:44 +0100, Roger Tonkin
wrote:

I have a similar system to Roger save that I use some large airtight
sandwich boxes, one for perennials, one for hardy annuals and one for
half-hardy annuals. A fourth stores any veg seeds I accumulate as
freebies with magazines and the like until I can give them away (I no
longer grow veg).

For collected seed I use little polythene "envelopes" which have those
press to seal strips across the top. As long as the seed is dried
thoroughly, I find these keep things fresher than paper bags and they
have white stripes for writing on.

Branching off a bit, I often ignore the "sow in x months" bit of the
instructions and sow when a plant in the ground would drop its seed,
often sowing a batch of collected seed as soon as it's collected. I
find this works just as well.

Cheers, Jake
=======================================
Urgling from the East End of Swansea Bay where sometimes
it's raining and sometimes it's not.

"David Hill" wrote

If you are like me you pick up packets of seeds over the year and find you
have them all over the place, often in places you can't find till it's to
late to sow them.
Any ideas on the best way to keep them all together.
I am wondering about one of those concertina document folders with
alphabetical sections.

I keep them in alphabetical order in an old wooden wine box in the cupboard
under our stairs, so dark and cool.
--
Regards. Bob Hobden.
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"David Hill" wrote in message
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If you are like me you pick up packets of seeds over the year and find you
have them all over the place, often in places you can't find till it's to
late to sow them.
Any ideas on the best way to keep them all together.
I am wondering about one of those concertina document folders with
alphabetical sections.

I just shove mine into a biscuit tin. I know where they are but doesn't
help with when.

On Sun, 16 Sep 2012 02:12:22 +0100, "Christina Websell"
wrote:


"David Hill" wrote in message
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If you are like me you pick up packets of seeds over the year and find you
have them all over the place, often in places you can't find till it's to
late to sow them.
Any ideas on the best way to keep them all together.
I am wondering about one of those concertina document folders with
alphabetical sections.

I just shove mine into a biscuit tin. I know where they are but doesn't
help with when.




You're all far too organised. We have a similar system to Christina.
They all end up in an envelope in a kitchen drawer.

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You're all far too organised. We have a similar system to Christina.
They all end up in an envelope in a kitchen drawer.

I use the plastic flip top containers that you buy washing products in, if
I can get them before my grandchildren do, its amazing what toys can be made
from boxes of any kind isn't it

kate

I keep mine in the fridge, at the back of the top shelf which is effectively dead space because my husband can't see what's in there without squatting.
3 indian takeaway boxes - "plant at a specific time", "succession", and "reserve" (enough planted this year - some of these packets have been in that box for years). New stuff gets lobbed on top of the takeaway boxes until I have time to sort it.

Back of the second shelf, which he also can't see, is where I stratify stuff.

I don't use the garage because it's not a friendly space for small stuff, and the cellars are too damp - things might grow.