Our own personal seed banks

[Snadger]

I am beginning to think I am not a real gardener.

I have three seed packets in a shoe box and they will probably be binned.

I've had too many failures with dodgy seed so intend just buying fresh seed each year.

[Chestnut]

I have 2 biscuit tins. Small one is the seeds for planting this month (and stuff like cress stays there all year round), big tin is stuff for other months, with a different plastic bag for each month. Seeds are filed by first sowing monh, so some will stay in the small tin for a few months;-)

[rary]

I have three chocolate boxes of seeds, last year I was quite fortunate to have a young lady take a number of seed packets that I had, and I think, she was quite happy to take them, but I think I should adopt Snadgers method and only buy what I am going to use so that I am using fresh seeds as required.

[Snoop Puss]

Lawks! Those are some seed collections. I'm obviously a mere dilettante at the veg-growing business. All I've got is one tool box. That and the half-full carrier bag of seeds that I pulled out as not worth growing (not nice, didn't do anything, too old) but have still not thrown out, all these weeks later. Partly because I can't bring myself to do it, but also because they are a lesson in not wasting money. There's a fortune in that thar carrier bag.

[Penellype]

I have 4 smallish boxes - a shoe box with veg sorted into month to sow, a box for catch crops (including lettuce) mostly for growing under lights and a section at the front for "waiting to germinate", a plastic tub (the sort fruit comes in) for microgreens and sprouting seeds and another for things I've tried and am not that keen on and duplicate packets bought because I've nearly finished the other. When I've finished something for the year the packet goes into the back of the shoe box labelled finished this year, in alphabetical order. Flower seeds (of which I have very few) live at the back of the catch crops box.

[hamamelis]

Well, because I recently had to give up my allotment and move to a flat without a garden, I had to drastically cut back on the seeds; I gave a lot away, and got ruthless with the stuff that probably was too old to germinate.



I only have 3 biscuit tins full left

Lucky I got a new plot, really, eh?

[Stan79]

Wowww.... you guys are......... committed!

I have a small seed tin about 15cm x 10cm x the height of a packet on the bottom shelf of one of our fridges. I think i need to get serious!

[Mamzie]

Gosh - I love this forum, finally a place I feel normal for my seed hoarding tendencies

[veggiechicken]

We're all "normal" here, Mamzie.

[bikermike]

Today I’ve been going through my seeds to see what I need to get and what I have.


Does anyone else have seed for 4 different varieties of dandelions ?

probably... I'll just see what's in the garden...

[ecudc]

I’m not sure if the seed company sent my three packets by mistake or if I ordered three by mistake but I’ve got three packets of the same parsnip. Can you eat parsnip sprouts?

Otherwise I have something the size of a carryon case for seeds....can’t resist growing lots of varieties.

[veggiechicken]

Not you can't eat parsnip leaves.

[ecudc]

Not you can't eat parsnip leaves.

What a shame ��

[veggiechicken]

Juice and sap from parsnip leaves and stalks can cause a rash or skin blistering when the skin is also exposed to direct sunlight. Contact with parsnip leaves may also cause a skin discoloration that may last several months, according to the New Zealand Dermatological Society.
https://homeguides.sfgate.com/leaves...son-85632.html

Not worth the risk of eating them IMO