How do you organise your seeds?

**Guest** · 18-02-2016, 06:26 AM

Unfortunately different things work for different peeps. I used to do mine in a box in family groups then sowing times. It had two flaws, I would get packs that slipped underneath and I would struggle to find them and as the season went on I wouldn't keep it organised. I now have family groups in video cases which works well for me as I choose which families to do. I have done my peppers and dipped into toms. Really glad I got to pinch the idea off another grape

**noviceveggrower** · 18-02-2016, 06:49 AM

I rearrange my seed box so many times its unbelievable. Sometimes its sowing months then its family groups then its back to months.
I have found for me an easy way for me is to go through them every few weeks and put together the seeds in groups that I want to sow next. Then it gives me chance to get my self organised.

**jonny the plant pot** · 18-02-2016, 07:02 AM

I throw all the packs in a big tub then pull them out like sweets

**Bigmallly** · 18-02-2016, 07:31 AM

Hello Dez & welcome to the vine, there are quite a few similar threads on the vine, here's one of them:

http://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gra...eds_80450.html

**Lumpy** · 18-02-2016, 07:43 AM

I have a very large biscuit tin and a half page per day diary.

The diary lets me make a note in the front what can be started when and the day to day pages help me remember when I am supposed to be sowing again.

This process can and does end up chaotic especially when I can't be bothered to keep the diary up to date.

**Lisasbolt** · 18-02-2016, 08:20 AM

I get some sort of sick pleasure from having them in a massive washing basket and I love tipping them out and playing with them, it's almost like I am in a store not knowing what there is

**Lisasbolt** · 18-02-2016, 08:21 AM

Although I do keep the tomatoes and peppers separate

**Nannysally99** · 18-02-2016, 08:46 AM

Just a large sweetie tin for ours.
I do look in there regularly, just to keep my interest going

**WendyC** · 18-02-2016, 08:55 AM

I go with monthly organisation, with busy months, e.g. April, split into early and late. I do have a separate box with "reserve" seeds which I'm not sowing this year. Usually about late August when the seed sales start, I put them all together and organise alphabetically so I can see what I have and what I need to buy. Then the next year's seeds go back in the monthly tin. For repeat showings I just move the packet back into the next month.

**Root66** · 18-02-2016, 09:52 AM

A-Z family groups, in a shoebox with a lettered cardboard divider...I had to do something at the start of January.

**Martin H** · 18-02-2016, 11:10 AM

I do mine by month of the year, using moveable dividers in filing boxes. At the end of each month I redistribute, so at the end of Feb I will move any that say "Feb or March" to the March section and any that say "Jan or Feb" go back in the Jan section for next year if I think they will still be viable.

Within month I keep them roughly in categories, like all the brassicas together at the front, all the flowers together at the back, but I'm not very diligent about this bit.

**KevinM67** · 18-02-2016, 11:16 AM

Originally posted by jonny the plant pot View Post

I throw all the packs in a big tub then pull them out like sweets

Yep, I use this quality (street) system myself.

Nothing better when finding a pack of some 'different' type of veg seed that you forgot you bought really cheap the previous Autumn.

**sparrow100** · 18-02-2016, 11:23 AM

I have 3 boxes - with seeds ordered by family groups. Peas, beans & flowers in one, cucurbits toms peppers herbs & salads in another, everything else in the third. I have a spreadsheet with a list of what I am sowing and when, which I put together at the start of the year and keep to till about April when it all gets a bit ad hoc.

**jacob** · 18-02-2016, 11:34 AM

Organise? Ummm.....

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