Ensure you label leftover seeds with the title of the plant and the date.
Final week, I used to be taking a list of the frozen meals in my freezer, a lot of which incorporates greens preserved out of my residence backyard. Luggage of roasted tomatoes, complete okra pods, dehydrated peppers and cubes of pesto are plentiful in my larder, which is so good to have out there in the midst of winter.
However whereas rifling by all these frozen meals, I additionally found a plethora of seeds, lots of which I’ve stashed haphazardly over the course of a number of years.
It was good to see this full circle of gardening current in my freezer, with the seeds beside the harvest. I did discover, although, that most of the seeds packets had been a number of years previous, some didn’t have a date, and a few had been varieties I didn’t care to develop once more. Clearly, it was time to do some little bit of housekeeping and undergo these seeds.
Now is an effective time to take stock of your seed stash (or stashes) and work out what it’s essential maintain, what it’s essential toss and what it’s best to share. It’s additionally time to order or store for brand new seeds when you haven’t completed so already. Issues promote out shortly in mid-winter, when bored gardeners are afforded somewhat sofa time.
When going by your seeds, concentrate first to what you wish to maintain and plant this season. I’ve a number of packs of yellow summer time squash, two of which had been in clear plastic luggage with no date. They went straight to the trash, just because I don’t know how previous they’re, and I’ve recent seeds from 2021 that I planted final yr. Plus, final yr’s Zephyr squash was extra prolific than any run of the mill crookneck I’ve ever planted.