What does your seed box look like?

[TonyF]

I posted about this here on another thread I think. I have a 47 litre IKEA storage box, biggest they do, for my seeds and inside that box, there are other boxes for veggies, flowers and herbs. The box also holds all the saved seeds in their paper bags or the excellent tea tins with tight fitting plastic lids that I buy my tea in.

At the moment the box is also covered in onion sets, spuds waiting to be chitted and just about everything else. I'm in Bordeaux next weekend and will be hitting IKEA again for more garden storage and may just have to get another couple of 'pre-growing' boxes cos Jenny says the box I have isn't big enough

[ChocCosmos]

Have now got a nice shiny proper seed tin with real dividers!!!!! However, it's two thirds full already!

A seed tin with dividers; I'm very jealous!

I looked for something that would help me become more organised this year (left the veg side too late last year) but couldn't find anything suitable. Currently all my seeds are packed into a small silver tin but are going to be transferred into a large plastic box with two drawers so at least I can now divide the flowers and the veg. Just need to split them up month by month now and sort out all the all things I've already thrown in there, like rubber bands, labels, pencils, bits of paper ....

[allotmentlady]

i have many tins with seeds all over the place, still sorting through, going to start deciding what not to keep, had a clear out a few weeks ago but still keep finding seeds though lol

[bluemoon]

Mine's a large tupperware type box with a carrying handle, and currently it's rammed. I'd like to claim that this is because it's the start of the growing season, but actually this is all last year's leftovers and the new packets are still in the envelopes in which they arrived and languishing in a biscuit tin

[Claire72]

mine is a quality street tin also, and the new seeds from the front of gYO and LGV won't fit in!!!
Will just have to plant more this week and see if I can thin my collection out a bit!!!!

[MaureenHall]

Oh dear, I think I'm a saddo !!!! I have mine in a divided organiser folder thingy , all sorted out by month so I know what I can start off. Think I might use some of the empty spaces and separate flowers from veg, might make it a bit easier to close! The section for March is decidedly full to bursting

[Glutton4...]

Obviously I have a lot to learn mine are all in a plastic bag! Quite a large one, but not as posh as a file or box or tin


off to look on eBay for suitable containers...

[Claire72]

Tins of roses are on special in Tesco just now (Much cheaper than going on ebay and paying postage)

[Glutton4...]

Tins of roses are on special in Tesco just now (Much cheaper than going on ebay and paying postage)

But then I'd have to eat the contents, and they're yeeeeuuuuccchh - do Green & Blacks do tins? lol!

[piskieinboots]

I bought Snowdrop (a while back) the complete DVD collection of James Bond - it came in a very large shiny silver tin with 007 on it - that is my main seed storage box.

Then I move them from there into a lever arch folder divided into times of sowing - that is my working file

[Claire72]

But then I'd have to eat the contents, and they're yeeeeuuuuccchh - do Green & Blacks do tins? lol!

but would they be a good bribe for someone to help you dig your plot???

[Glutton4...]

but would they be a good bribe for someone to help you dig your plot???

A-ha - someone more devious than me lol!

[Claire72]

doesn't work for me mind you!!!

[Marthaclematis]

I didn't have one till I read this thread... I said to dh "they've all got storage, they've got boxes and tins for their seeds and stuff... why haven't I got one?? I want one, I wanna be a proper gardener!!" Anyroad up; five mins later I have a small tupperware box, enough for one large sandwich with my to packets of bulbs, cosmos, flax, rudbeckia and half packets of carrot, basil and some passionflower seeds wrapped in tissue.
Is this the start..? Its tiny compared to FORTY SEVEN LITRES (!!!). It is fit to bursting though - I can see me needing something bigger quite soon :-)

[TonyF]

Problem is Martha I've got two enormous potagers to look after, one mine and one a chum's plus I'm a Seed Guardian and I have compulsive seed purchasing disorder.

And I belong to a gardening group down here where we swap seeds and I collect seeds from friend's gardens.

I know I need help but my shrink tells me collecting seeds and growing lots of veggies and other plants isn't a problem and it doesn't make me a bad person .................. But then she does get some plants taken to her