Gardeners all have their own particular way of storing seeds. Our tried and true methods to keep our seeds dry, safe, cool, and most of all, viable.For me, approximately five years ago, give or take, that meant storing them in their original envelopes in a tupperware container and hoped that they wouldn’t get wet. Many times I would get frustrated each year when I would try to start some seeds
A while ago I posted a blog on Seed Saving where I shared my own idea of storing seeds. Well imagine how surprised I was when I found that Walmart sells the exact type of container that I wanted to use. So, since they were so cheap(aka affordable) I picked up two of them up.I labeled each container by number so that I can always switch things around later when
I Just wanted to share to all. I have recently started talking to many of the ladies and gentlemen at Rareseeds.com.There is a wonderful gentleman there that has a really informative paper all about seed saving. Puts my blog entry to shame, I should say! I always feel you can never EVER know everything. So please, please, if you’ve got a chance and you’re so inclined look this up:http://www.americanseedalliance.org/index.htmlThis manual
Each January or February gardeners all over flock to their Burpee; Ferry Morse or other miscellaneous seed catalog and make up their lists of this years plants. Some may decide to purchase an actual plant or some might actually buy the seeds and start the seeds by themselves. Heck some would be gardeners out there might, on a nice, warm, Spring day get hit by the planting bug and head on over to
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