How do your organise your seed packets?

[mothhawk]

Rummaging is more fun. I have one biscuit tin for veg and another for flowers. I can't actually close the lid right down on either, so I sit one on top of the other and put a heavy book on the top to keep them shut.

I do now have a simple spreadsheet with seeds sorted by family and variety and showing indoor/outdoor sowing months. (I do love playing with the sort button). I print it out, one for flowers, one for veg, and put each inside the relevant tin so I know for sure what's in each. As long as I remember to cross off what's been used of course.

Something I've only started to do this year is to write on the actual seed packet the date I sowed the seeds, which is not only a fall-back if I forget to note it elsewhere, but also a handy reminder of when the packet was first opened.

Gosh, I'm so organized I can't believe myself!

[Dorothy rouse]

Gosh, I'm tired out reading all these methods of storing and organising seeds.

I have a lovely mental picture of a Bill running back to check his seed packets behind the clock! ......

[bearded bloke]

In a non specific manner,in many locations If Mrs BB ever saw them all .............

[Shadylane]

I have a box file split into monthly segments. The seed packets are kept in plastic wallets with labels that are peeling off and stored in the appropriate month, then if necessary moved on to the next month. Some seeds packets end up in the wrong wallets. Newly bought seed packets get placed somewhere 'safe' until I've forgotten where I put them. Seeds that I've just sown get left on the 'side' until I 'get round to' sorting them out again. This reminds me, I really need to sort my seeds.

[snakeshack]

Mine are in a pukka seed storage tin filed alphabetically in ziplock bags for varieties eg lettuce in one peppers in another etc. I also keep a small hard back notebook with alphabetic listing at the front and if you turn it over monthly planting from the back.i now am not allowed to buy seeds unless its with me (stands up and addresses meeting" my name's Chris and I'm a seedaholic") as I now have over 200 packs of seed.


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[vegboi]

use old washing machine liquid tab boxes and write jan to June on mine and any unseen I move along to the following month.


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[batman]

Even though I used to only grow stuff on my windowsills I accumulated lots of seeds. With the signing of the allotment tenancy they've multiplied.

I have a spreadsheet about all varieties we've got seed of, another one for things in our planting plan 2014, and one for things that "need" to be replenished or restocked.

The actual seeds are in a box file. There are 12 zip lock bags, labelled with the months. Whenever I buy or get more seeds, I chuck the packet in the earliest month I can sow them in. When I sow things and want to redone in succession I then put them in the next month. Otherwise (Toms, for example) I just leave them in their original month bag.

It's fairly organised, but with 80+ varieties, I'd lose my head otherwise.


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[Bottomdollar]

I have 3 beds so my seeds are split into top bed, middle bed, bottom bed then in month order for sowing and held together with an elastic band. As a newbie this helps me understand what grows with what. Then I have a set of inters and quick crops so I know I can pretty much put them anywhere when I have gaps and in my tubs and I have a separate set of greenhouse crops for the things I want to keep undercover. It kinda works so far for me :-)

[MrsCordial]

This year, just for fun, I'm trying lunar planting and following an app called BioGarden to tell me what to plant when. Plants are divided into those where the emphasis is on leaf, fruit, root or flower. So, I've divided my seeds into those four categories. Leaf would be eg kale, lettuce, many herbs; fruit is eg tomato, strawberry, kohl rabi; root is carrot, onion, parsnip etc; flower is nasturtium, borage etc.

Actual storage is a combination of an old tea cardboard box, a giant drum that used to hold stock powder, a heavy-duty clear plastic bag and a heavy-gauge cardboard envelope. They're on some shelves in a corner of our downstairs loo, behind a curtain (weird arrangement we inherited and have never bothered to sort out!), so they're out of the light.