Out of curiosity how do you folk over yonder store your 'left over' seeds?
HW

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Harold Walker wrote:
Out of curiosity how do you folk over yonder store your 'left over' seeds?

In an army surplus ammunition box that originally contained a 0.5"
machine-gun belt.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

Harold Walker wrote:
Out of curiosity how do you folk over yonder store your 'left over'
seeds? HW

I just squeeze the inner packet flat and roll up the open end, and
put them with ones I've collected from plants, which are in paper, in
a cool dark drawer or cardboard box -- in the house, not out in the
shed. A friend more sensible than I am shakes them up with a little
anti-fungal seed-dressing if they aren't treated already. (I have a
vague feeling that there are seeds you shouldn't treat, but the
memory may be false: I'll be corrected fast enough if it is!)

--
Mike.

"Dave Poole" wrote in message
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Harold Walker asked:

Out of curiosity how do you folk over yonder store your 'left over' seeds?

Any that I save or collect are first dried, cleaned as much as
possible to remove any debris, placed in brown paper bags, which are
put into a plastic airtight container together with one of those
silica gel sachets to keep the air dry. The container then goes into
the salad crisper in a spare fridge until the seeds are needed.
Sensitive tropicals are kept at room temperature, but otherwise given
similar treatment. It works for me.


Dave Poole
Torquay, Coastal South Devon UK
Winter min -2°C. Summer max 34°C.
Growing season: March - November

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In article , Harold Walker
writes
Out of curiosity how do you folk over yonder store your 'left over' seeds?
HW

Fold over the top of the packet, put them all into a plastic box, and
store in the fridge.

The main advantage is that I know where they are. I didn't do that with
the seed I collected from my sweet pea 'belinensis' and I haven't found
those.

--
Kay
"Do not insult the crocodile until you have crossed the river"

"Harold Walker" wrote ...
Out of curiosity how do you folk over yonder store your 'left over' seeds?
HW

Those seeds I collect myself are cleaned and packeted in little brown
envelopes (wage packets) and are then kept in an old wooden wine case in
alphabetical order in the cupboard under the stairs. This space seems to
have a constant cool temperature summer and winter which is why the wines is
in there too. :-)
Bought seeds simply joins the other seed in the case until needed.

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Regards
Bob
In Runnymede, 17 miles West of London

In article , Janet Baraclough
writes

I'm just glad seeds can't read, and don't get discouraged easily.

Don't bank on it! My mother would always put *some* name on any
unidentified cactus - she reckoned they grew better if they had a name
;-)

Actually, it could be simply that she was inclined to value more, and
therefore tend more carefully, something that was named rather than just
sitting in a pot without a label. So there may have been something in
it. Certainly I find that if I talk to a plant, I have to find something
to say, and therefore pay it more attention than otherwise, and so spot
pests at an earlier and more easily controllable stage.


--
Kay
"Do not insult the crocodile until you have crossed the river"

Harold Walker wrote:
:: Out of curiosity how do you folk over yonder store your 'left
:: over' seeds? HW

I have recently grown some plants from seeds which were at least 6 years
old, almost all of the vegetable seeds have grown ( sprouts, onions,
tomatoes) and none of the flowers (impatiens, petunia and another one I
can't remember)...the veg had an almost 100% success (apart from 3 sprouts),
the flowers did nothing at all, all were Unwins, unopened and went out of
season in '99.
These seeds (amongst dozens of other packets) were stored in a 'Quality
Street' tin on top of the kitchen cupboard for at least five years in
temperatures ranging from 4C on winter nights to 30C+ when Sunday dinners
get cooked.

Draw whatever conclusions you can from that lot!

(I'm growing beetroots, radishes and lettuce in a few weeks time from the
same seeds, I'll let you know if they grow)

--
"Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we.
They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country
and our people, and neither do we."
- George W. Bush, 5.8.2004

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In article , Janet Baraclough
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I'm just glad seeds can't read, and don't get discouraged easily.

Don't bank on it! My mother would always put *some* name on any
unidentified cactus - she reckoned they grew better if they had a name
;-)

Actually, it could be simply that she was inclined to value more, and
therefore tend more carefully, something that was named rather than just
sitting in a pot without a label. So there may have been something in
it. Certainly I find that if I talk to a plant, I have to find something
to say, and therefore pay it more attention than otherwise, and so spot
pests at an earlier and more easily controllable stage.

There's a Merkin programme that gets shown on one of the Satellite
channels, "MythBusters". They try to test out urban myths and other
folklore in a mostly scientific way. They tested out the talking to
plants/playing music etc thing reasonably carefully. They set out some
greenhouses with peas growing in pots. One had no sound, one had
insulting speech, one had encouraging speech, one had classical music
and one had rock music.

The sound was looped automatic playback and the plants were all watered
with an automatic system.

The general idea was to let it run for X weeks and then do taste tests
and weigh the biomass of the plants.

As this experiment was fully automated and a background task to the more
intensive tests they were doing (floating a sunk ship by feeding ping
pong balls into the hull e.g.), it took a week to find that the
automatic watering system had failed when the plants were only just
beginning to crop.

They weighed the results anyway. The silent greenhouse had the lowest
mass. The spoken greenhouses were next up with little difference.
Classical music was next and hevy rock the highest.

There wasn't anyone around to notice pests.

I have no plans to start planting speakers in my borders pumping out 24
hour Metallica tracks.

Warwick