HI, just curious as to how others store seeds. Any organizational methods or tips? Right now I store mine inside small envelopes inside a big envelope and it's not working so well!! Any suggestions would be great. Thanks!

i read somewhere to keep them in the fridge is that right?

Storing seeds...here's what I do.
1) go to a dollar store and pick up one of those recipe card file things.
2) write on the tabs according to what type of seeds you want stored in each section.
3) Put your seeds into seed packet envelopes (you can find these all over the net).
4) File the seeds into the section you want.
5) add one of those silicone things to it. You know, the little things that say "do not eat". I forget there appropriate name, but they seal out oxygen and keep things "fresh" longer. They also help seal out moisture. This is why we want them, they help preserve our seeds.

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On that subject - what about storing bulbs? I had some bulbs that I put in the old fridge in the garage and put them in the crisper drawer this winter and when I looked at them this spring - they were all mushy!!!

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PattyM

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I keep my seed drawer close to my computer because I keep my journal on here and also my germination table and pastically all my gardening information. So having the seeds close by saves me a bunch of walking.

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Wow! What kind of journal do you have? Germination table??? I love to take notes, but how do you do this, if you don't mind me asking.

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PattyM

Once my seeds are dry, I store them in the seed packs, those I put into an empty velveeta box. My seed packs fit perfectly in there. I also store my empty seed packs in there, in alphabetical order.

While my seeds are drying, I store them in opened baby food jars or medicine bottles. Give them a shake every day or two to keep the air flowing while they dry completely. I use the top drawers of my rolltop desk to keep my supplies in cuz that keeps them all away from the kids.

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We are all under the same stars... therefore we are never far apart.

About my system. I have two main folders on the computer. One is called plant profiles and I have an outline I use for each and every plant. It includes all the information you would find on a "davesgarden" fact sheet and then more besides. And If I knew then what I know now I'd have made it alittle different. Inside plant profiles are two sub-folders. One is named "plants I have" and one is named "plants I want". Both of them are broken down into two sub-folders called "outside plants" and "inside plants".

The other major folder is called garden information and this is the catch all. I have all my seed trading buddies addresses in it and all the trades I'm doing past, present, and future. There is a huge document that is last years garden diary and one that is getting even larger than that one that is this years garden diary. Then their are schedules of when to fertilize what so I don't forget and other calendar type documents for when to plant different things.

The germination table is getting to be pretty big. I only put things on it that I have or plan to have or thought I might get but decided against. Do I sound a little detail oriented? I am. I hope to post the germination table in the plant propagation section of the forum later in the year. It includes a few basic categories. The first category is when to sow the seeds, the second category is the soil temperature, the third category is whether the seeds need dark or light to germinate, and the forth category is how long they take to sprout. I may have the categories in the wrong order but those are the basic groups of information. But then there are things like chilling, soaking, nicking the seed coats and other things that pretain to certain plants and have to be included in order to make it useful.

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Is there a place where I can find out about scratching, soaking, etc. seeds? I've never grown anything from seed, but plan to, and this is all new to me.

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PattyM