Seed envelopes made from old till receipts question.

[rootball]

Hi all
I like to reuse what I can and this year I have started to use old till receipts folded into envelopes to hold collected seed.

A quick question, if the seeds are stored correctly in a dry and cool area does anyone know if the paper or print used on everyday till receipts will harm the seeds inside. Strange question I know but would be a shame to have saved the seeds only to find next year they were damaged by the paper or print on the till receipts.
Grateful for your thoughts
R

[Bigmallly]

Good idea rootball, I can't imagine any problems from the ink............Like owt else, there's only one way to find out.........

[Nicos]

We use pages of old books which would otherwise be sent to the tip.

Not seen any probs so far, but I can understand your concern...I'd never given it a second thought!

[Waney]

There will be more harmful things in your garden and mucky fingers than a till receipt, I wouldn't worry at all


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[rootball]

Bigmallly you are quite right, I think half in foil and half in till receipt envelopes and see what happens next year.
Nicos thanks for the info, I guess old books and till receipts are much the same so I will find out next year
Thanks again
R

[lottie dolly]

Have here'd said news paper ink is not harmful,as it is a vegetable dye,maybe till receipts are to,

[Plymlynn]

Well, I commend your enterprise, but I've always kept the envelopes from junk mail - first put the seeds in a fold of newspaper, to stop them getting out and then inside your free envelope and write the name and date of harvest.
It's probably teaching you to suck eggs - but I always like to store my seeds in one box in month of sowing order, for repeat sowings just put them back in next month's section.
I dip my old till receipts in water screw them up and add them to the compost bin - too mean to pay for a shredder !

[arpoet]

i buy bread and the like from a little local bakery and save all the paper bags for seed saving. Works well for me.

[Kristen]

I use old envelopes, the large A4 brown ones particularly, as I can stuff a whole plant's seed head into them and let them dry and the seeds fall out.

I keep all the little fold-over translucent packets that I get. Rather than writing on them I print a page of names and then cut them out and place them inside the [translucent] envelopes with the name showing through, by not writing on them they remain reusable in future seasons.

[Damian Jay]

We use pages of old books which would otherwise be sent to the tip.

*Insert outraged face here*
Please don't use old books for this! Old books could be taken to a local charity shop, or local church / scouts / guides for their jumble sales.

(Sorry, for the mini rant.... I LIKE books. It's such a civilised invention)

Having said the above I LIKE the idea in principle. So I will have a go at that but I WON'T be using old books. I think the (now crappy and useless) Yellow Pages might come in useful after all :-)

[Bigmallly]

I think the (now crappy and useless) Yellow Pages might come in useful after all :-)

If you have any pages over Damian, don't forget you can make good pots out of them.

[Damian Jay]

If you have any pages over Damian, don't forget you can make good pots out of them.

I've read a lot about using pages / news paper / loo paper etc for making pots. I've also seen quite a few decent Youtube videos showing how to make them.

I really like the idea of this, and have even made a few out of curiosity ... wait for it ..... BUT! :

1 - how long do these 'pots' last?
2 - Do they not go mouldy?
3 - Do they fall apart due to being wet? (especially the loo paper ones)

I take it BM, from your comment, that you use this method. How do you overcome the above questions?

Edit:
I think this may be quite an interesting topic. So in order NOT to hijack the OP, I've created a new topic
http://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gra...ots_83140.html