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storage requirement for seeds

njitgrad
10 years ago

Newbie to growing from seed here.

After having a successful first year so far growing from seed, I realized that I don't know much about properly storing seeds. Call it ignorance (or just being swamped with home and gardening projects) but the left-over seeds have been sitting in my garage (taped nicely shut in their envelopes) in an index card box where temps often approaching 80 degrees.

So my questions are:

1) Is there a limit to how long seeds can be stored?

2) What are ideal storage conditions?

3) How do you know if seeds are no longer good and will not germinate or will have their growth affected?

4) When should I start aquiring new seeds for next season? I want to have all of my wish-list seeds well ahead of time before sowing next season.

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