Seed storage: how do you store yours?

**burnie** · 30-12-2019, 11:39 AM

I have a plastic bucket with a lid on it, old fat ball tub from bird feeding, kept in the shade in my greenhouse, seems to work for me. The free seed tin on the front of the mag looks nice, but it would go rusty up here in the sea air.

**Guest** · 30-12-2019, 11:41 AM

Here is one I prepared earlier https://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gr...ml#post1565019

I used to have them in a box roughly sorted for monthly sowing but I kept buying seeds I already had as packs slipped to the bottom out of sight. Then when I joined the vine I found VC's video box thread and I have never looked back. A couple of years a go I picked up a 50/60s folding bookcase in a yard sale so now I can hide my seed addiction if I feel like it.

they are in a cool spare room as well.

**MyWifesBrassicas** · 30-12-2019, 12:10 PM

Originally posted by Norfolkgrey View Post

Here is one I prepared earlier https://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gr...ml#post1565019

I used to have them in a box roughly sorted for monthly sowing but I kept buying seeds I already had as packs slipped to the bottom out of sight. Then when I joined the vine I found VC's video box thread and I have never looked back. A couple of years a go I picked up a 50/60s folding bookcase in a yard sale so now I can hide my seed addiction if I feel like it.

they are in a cool spare room as well.

Just read through the old thread you've pasted in, wow.
Some serious seed collectors and storage systems going on.
I really like the video cassette box system

**Guest** · 30-12-2019, 12:34 PM

^^^that is the great thing about the vine, you don't have to be embarrassed by seed addictions they are welcomed with open arms.

A few more threads just so no seedaholics or potential seedaholics get left out
https://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gr...got_82505.html
https://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gr...eas_99572.html

**veggiechicken** · 30-12-2019, 12:39 PM

Here's the original video box thread - no photos sadly! https://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gr...eos_81612.html
I've moved on a bit since then! Still have some video boxes in use but most of my veg seeds have been grouped into type - and are in plastic boxes that I scrounge from Morries' Salad bar. For example, turnip, swede and parsnip are together. Carrots have a box of their own, as there were so many! I blame magazine freebies.
There's a box of annual herbs and another of perennial herbs. Another box has all the seeds to be sown after midsummer (oriental veg) and one for overwintering salads in the GH.
Flower seeds are alphabetical in ziplock bags.
Probably, next winter, I'll shuffle them around again and try something different.

**Bren In Pots** · 30-12-2019, 03:46 PM

Mines in a plastic storage box, I don’t have a big stash of seeds and this week I’ll be sorting through them taking any in date seeds I don’t need/have space for to the charity shop to let someone else make use of them.

**MyWifesBrassicas** · 30-12-2019, 03:51 PM

just been through my garage and found these, think i'll use them.
How many do you think should be use?

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**veggiechicken** · 30-12-2019, 03:56 PM

Since you have 12, you could have one for every month of the year, or 2 letters of the alphabet, or count all your seed packets and divide them by 12.............

**MyWifesBrassicas** · 30-12-2019, 04:11 PM

Originally posted by veggiechicken View Post

Since you have 12, you could have one for every month of the year, or 2 letters of the alphabet, or count all your seed packets and divide them by 12.............

Don't know if alphabetical would work for me, but maybe by month......
Thinking about it, not too sure I'll have a separate one for the cold months.
I do think seasonal works with my mind rather than crop groupings

**Guest** · 30-12-2019, 04:14 PM

I work on a 4 bed rotation (curcurbit, brassica, roots and p+b however the latter are bulky so that is 5 tubs) then there are gh crops, herbs and flowers so that is 8 tubs gone. That is if you don't fancy the monthly option.

**veggiechicken** · 30-12-2019, 04:53 PM

For me, the monthly sowing option didn't work as, once I'd opened a packet of seeds that could be sown in, maybe 3 consecutive months, I'd want them to be in the next month's box too.
My only rotation is from week to week, not bed to bed - and I'm not really convinced by sowing dates either.
I sort the seeds differently every year - just for the fun of playing with seeds.

**MyWifesBrassicas** · 30-12-2019, 05:05 PM

Ok then, I think;
1 box will be for consecutive planting (all year rounders)
1 box will be for colder months only eg oriental greens etc
1 box for brassicas
1 box for cucurbits
1 box for peas/beans
1 box for roots
1 box for early startings chilli's/tomatoes

Whittled to 7 boxes.
Think I can reduce it further?

**veggiechicken** · 30-12-2019, 05:06 PM

Yes - if you only have one packet of each!!

**Penellype** · 30-12-2019, 05:09 PM

I have mine (mostly) in an old plastic fridge drawer which I keep in my cloakroom (the coolest room in the house). It is just a nice width for a seed packet stacked vertically on its side. Most are stored in alphabetical order as that is how I have the notes for each variety arranged on my computer. The exceptions are "catch crops" such as lettuce, microgreens, oriental greens etc which I resow at regular intervals so I keep them separately. At one end of the drawer I have a section for "waiting to germinate" so that I remember to update the notes when the seedlings appear, put the packet back or buy new if empty or throw away the seeds if they fail. This method works for me.

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