What is this and what will I do with it ;)

[veggiechicken]

Bottom left (21) - seeds like inside out umbrellas - are Armeria "Joystick".

[mothhawk]

Bottom left (21) - seeds like inside out umbrellas - are Armeria "Joystick".

Oops! I'm totally wrong then I've certainly never grown thrift, it doesn't like my clay soil.

Used to be on the back of threepenny bits, didn't it?

Are you going to tell us what all the other seeds are, I'm all guessed out for tonight.

[veggiechicken]

I'm all typed out too!!
They're 24 different flowers with names, mostly Latin, beginning with A, in alphabetical order.
1 is Abutilon Indicans and 24 is Astilbe Grandis.

They're all very old seeds and I'm not hopeful. However, this viability test should be over in a week or so and I haven't used any compost to do it. Any seeds that do nothing will be scattered - I never give up on old seeds.

I'm about to start a second box with C flowers - maybe tonight. Won't make you guess any more!!

[veggiechicken]

Pot 3 has germinated
Achillea Filipendula "Cloth of Gold" - sow by 2007.

Never give up on old seeds!

[veggiechicken]

No 7 has germinated

Ageratum "Blue Mink - part used packet from 2010. Don't know when I opened it but it wasn't this year.

[veggiechicken]

2019 - more seeds to sow!

I'm bumping this thread for 2 reasons:-

1. I'm going to viability test a number of seeds - all the same species but different varieties

2. If you're given any Ferrero Rocher chocolates in their overly packaged box, make sure you keep it as it has lots of uses.

[rary]

You could always post a box to me, full and unopened of course

[veggiechicken]

You'd like a box of seeds, rary?
I have seeds


but I don't have any of those chocs, sorry.
I don't really like them but I do like the boxes so I give them to Mum as a present, wait until she's eaten them, then offer to recycle the boxes.

[veggiechicken]

I had so many types of this seed family that I had to start a 2nd chocolate box - so that 5 seeds of 48 different ????.................???? seeds "sown" on damp kitchen roll.
If they all germinate , I'll have to find space for nearly 200 plants.

Can you guess what they are?

[Jungle Jane]

I think it might be tomato seeds because that’s a good amount of tomato plants to grow I can’t think of many seeds with that many varieties?

[veggiechicken]

Sound reasoning there, JJ but................

[Nicos]

Just to complicate things further, I bet you are using their Latin names?

[veggiechicken]

For once, NO, I'm using their "street" names but, they're all part of the same Latin name classification........and, there were some more that I didn't sow.

[Small pumpkin]

Are they flowers VC ?

[veggiechicken]

............with the caveat that every plant flowers at some time.