The other day I did something I had been putting off for months: I tidied my seed box. I’m ashamed to admit that I’m not one of those women who has a perfectly organised seed box coded by month, colour of flower or type of veg. I have a pallet-tray in which I chuck all my seed packets. There is a sort-of organisation: one tupperware box with all the vegetable seeds shoved in, and one tupperware with all the flowers, along with two boxes of cocktail sticks, a rusty spoon and a small tin of unidentified home-saved seeds that I found in my handbag.
Anything more sophisticated than this arrangement normally disintegrates within a few weeks of the sowing seas: I just don’t have the patience or inclination.
But the beauty of having a messy seed box is that it sometimes yields some fabulous surprises. I found seeds I had entirely forgotten about, and more seeds than I would ever need. So I’ve added them to the seed swap page on F&F. There are tomatoes white, black and green, beans and flowers to snap up for free, in exchange for other nice seeds.
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Please do add your own listings to the seed swap. Now is the time to stock up on other people’s home-saved seeds before sowing begins in earnest.
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Helen at Toronto Gardens
That seed box looks pretty tidy to me. Mine includes the lid of a box (that isn’t quite wide enough) for the veggies, and the box top (ditto) for the flowers. Lid and bottom get put into a cloth shopping bag that I’m regularly misplacing around the house. So, hearty congratulations.
Helen
I have the same disorganised approach. Though on Sunday I sorted them into sowing months but I know this is futile as I will forget and then have a panic sowing session so everything germinates at the same time and I have no where for the seedlings!!
Ronnie
My seed box is one of my kitchen drawers. This also holds all sorts of cuttings from newspaper and garden articles that might be useful as well as string, twine and other bits and peices I might need suddenly without having to search in the garden shed. Sometimes the drawer is so full things fall down the back – so imagine the great surprise when I suddenly find a lost and forgotten packet of seeds amongst the casserole dishes!
Dawn Isaac
The other night I inputted all my seeds into an excel spreadsheet with sowing, planting and harvesting colour coded.
Never has it been more obvious that I need to get out of the house more.
F&F
Ha! At least when you leave your house Dawn it doesn’t look like a crime scene. My seed and bulb drawer has overflowed into the drawer I keep my tights in…