Welcome to the year of using up all the expired seeds:I have a small hoarder-collector problem with buying cute heirloom seeds every year and never using them all properly.
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Welcome to the year of using up all the expired seeds:
I have a small hoarder-collector problem with buying cute heirloom seeds every year and never using them all properly. Over time, this has led to a large collection of expired seeds. So this year, I am not buying any new ones, and instead will plant what I have, to see what comes up.
So far I planted tomatoes (3 types including one expired in 2019), squash (exp 2021), basil (exp 2020) and green beans (exp 2019). Wish me (them) luck!@juliette I have that problem plus seeds I’ve stripped from chance-encountered specimens in various travels that I’ve rolled up in scraps of paper and never labeled
love the idea of a jubilee year for forgotten future plants! -
Welcome to the year of using up all the expired seeds:
I have a small hoarder-collector problem with buying cute heirloom seeds every year and never using them all properly. Over time, this has led to a large collection of expired seeds. So this year, I am not buying any new ones, and instead will plant what I have, to see what comes up.
So far I planted tomatoes (3 types including one expired in 2019), squash (exp 2021), basil (exp 2020) and green beans (exp 2019). Wish me (them) luck!Continuing! Today I planted aubergine and sage (expired 2022), more tomatoes (exp 2023) and coriander (exp 2024).
Total starter pots so far: 52.
Plants growing so far: 0. -
Continuing! Today I planted aubergine and sage (expired 2022), more tomatoes (exp 2023) and coriander (exp 2024).
Total starter pots so far: 52.
Plants growing so far: 0.@juliette looking forward to know whether those of 2019 will grow
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Continuing! Today I planted aubergine and sage (expired 2022), more tomatoes (exp 2023) and coriander (exp 2024).
Total starter pots so far: 52.
Plants growing so far: 0.Correction: 53 pots. I forgot the one in which I planted sunflower seeds (exp 2018).
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Welcome to the year of using up all the expired seeds:
I have a small hoarder-collector problem with buying cute heirloom seeds every year and never using them all properly. Over time, this has led to a large collection of expired seeds. So this year, I am not buying any new ones, and instead will plant what I have, to see what comes up.
So far I planted tomatoes (3 types including one expired in 2019), squash (exp 2021), basil (exp 2020) and green beans (exp 2019). Wish me (them) luck!@juliette
In the 1990s they dug a cable trench through the former medicinal herb garden of Mariefred Monastery. They turned the earth, put the cable down and backfilled the trench.The following year, a neat line of henbane grew on top of the cable. The seeds had been waiting for 450 years to get back to the surface.
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@juliette
In the 1990s they dug a cable trench through the former medicinal herb garden of Mariefred Monastery. They turned the earth, put the cable down and backfilled the trench.The following year, a neat line of henbane grew on top of the cable. The seeds had been waiting for 450 years to get back to the surface.
@mrundkvist so there’s hope for my sunflowers!
My garden shed
Svalbard Global Seed Vault -
@mrundkvist so there’s hope for my sunflowers!
My garden shed
Svalbard Global Seed Vault@juliette
I think you did the smart thing, not buying new seeds.
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Welcome to the year of using up all the expired seeds:
I have a small hoarder-collector problem with buying cute heirloom seeds every year and never using them all properly. Over time, this has led to a large collection of expired seeds. So this year, I am not buying any new ones, and instead will plant what I have, to see what comes up.
So far I planted tomatoes (3 types including one expired in 2019), squash (exp 2021), basil (exp 2020) and green beans (exp 2019). Wish me (them) luck!@juliette let us know how you get on - we’re all there too
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@juliette
In the 1990s they dug a cable trench through the former medicinal herb garden of Mariefred Monastery. They turned the earth, put the cable down and backfilled the trench.The following year, a neat line of henbane grew on top of the cable. The seeds had been waiting for 450 years to get back to the surface.
This takes on so many more nuances after reading the Wiki article for henbane...
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Correction: 53 pots. I forgot the one in which I planted sunflower seeds (exp 2018).
@juliette We still have this funky seed. It's been ready since 2005 or so. Want to plant it?
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