Seed storage: how do you store yours?

[Bren In Pots]

Mine are sorted roughly alphabetical, like all brassicas are grouped together so are lettuce and toms. I like looking through my seeds it reminds me of sorting my Nans button tins.

[MyWifesBrassicas]

Mine are sorted roughly alphabetical, like all brassicas are grouped together so are lettuce and toms. I like looking through my seeds it reminds me of sorting my Nans button tins.

OMG, I did that with my Nans button tins.
That gave me a memory I'd lost for probably nearly 40 years

[Babru]

It was my mum's button tin. Great fun. The buttons also came into play as 'money' for gambling when playing cards.

My seeds are in two tins, one for edibles and one for ornamentals, in the fridge in the garage. (If this sounds ridiculously extravagant, we brought our fridge freezer with us, and it turned out the lady selling had left hers, hence a two fridge family...)

[Chestnut]

Mine are in 4 tins. One holds flowers, one spare packets of stuff I have more than one packet, and one tin with all ‘current ‘ packs of veg seed, subdivided in plastic bags by month of first sowing.
4th tin just has the ones I will sow this month.
Trick bit is remembering to do multiple succession sowings....

Edit: just read an old post - that reminded me I only had 2 tins a couple of years ago. Wonder how many I will get to by 2030?!

[Mark_Riga]

mine are in bags in a big carboard box. Some bags are flowers and some are veg.
And peas, broad beans, french beans and climbing beans are in a stack of 5 plastic margarine tubs without the lids on.

[veggiechicken]

Trick bit is remembering to do multiple succession sowings....

Roots, Shoots, Fruits and Leaves makes you repeat sow every 4 weeks (Shameless plug for https://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gr...ves_91363.html and its 2020 spin off https://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gr...an_100505.html )

[ameno]

I just fold over the seed packet and store them in a drawer in the living room.
They are sorted using the "chuck them all in then have a good rummage when you want to find something" method. Luckily, I have a good memory, so I generally remember what I have and even what part of the draw it's probably in.

[MyWifesBrassicas]

I just fold over the seed packet and store them in a drawer in the living room.
They are sorted using the "chuck them all in then have a good rummage when you want to find something" method. Luckily, I have a good memory, so I generally remember what I have and even what part of the draw it's probably in.

This was my original method, probably out of my laziness.

[Penellype]

Trick bit is remembering to do multiple succession sowings....!

I have a spreadsheet telling me what to sow when and when I did it last year. Its rather large, but this is the first couple of months, ready for 2020:



Anything needing attention or undecided is in red, anything going to my friend's garden is in blue and the allotment is in pink. If I want to sow successionally I put it in twice, as with the Meteor peas. As sowing and planting is done I change the entries in the 3rd and 4th columns to green so I can instantly see what is left to do.

At the end of the year I copy the lot onto a new page, change the colours and make adjustments.

[Kirk]

I sort of cheat:
Most seeds come from Moreveg,
They come in their own sealable plastic packet, with a label saying what they are.
The whole lot comes in a padded envelope.

I simply write the year of purchase on the envelope and keep the seeds in that.

Keep 2 years of them and generally throw the rest.

Envelopes get stored on a shelf or in a plastic tub.

Simple and it works, at least for me.

[MyWifesBrassicas]

I'm worried that if my individual plastic tubs (old ice cream tubs) are too big, I'll end up buying seed to fill them.

[veggiechicken]

Nature abhors a vacuum.

Me too - I don't like ironing either.