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Where do you store your seeds?

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NeighbourProblems · 11/01/2020 18:21

DH has loads of jars and tubs of seeds cluttering up kitchen cupboards and I'm wondering if they can live somewhere else?!

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Beebumble2 · 11/01/2020 18:34

Anywhere dark and dry, such as the under stair cupboard. I have mine in envelopes in a tin in the garage.

NeighbourProblems · 11/01/2020 23:40

Is a garage ok because it's sheltered but cool enough in the summer? I'm thinking a garden shed might become too hot.

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MereDintofPandiculation · 12/01/2020 18:46

I keep mine in the fridge. You want won't to encourage him to do that!

Bentoforthehorde · 18/01/2020 07:59

This made me chuckle because I am the seed hoarder and my frustrated husband is in your shoes. Oooh I do love seeds.
Mine are officially stored on a high livingroom alcove shelf in 2 wham shoe sized boxes and ringtons cardboard boxes.
There are stragglers around the place and glass jars of pea and bean seeds I let the kids play with.
In the kitchen I have glass jars of beans for eating, but this year I have so many drying beans to grow for eating I'm not sure how I will store those after harvest.
I know some people freeze them, to be honest the people I know who are best at growing things just keep them all over. One guy who is a Gardener by trade has an aladdins cave of interesting seeds rattling around in the back of his van.

NanTheWiser · 18/01/2020 18:10

Fridge is best, but anywhere cool and dark would be OK.

TwoPointFourKidsAndADog · 18/01/2020 20:15

Fridge? Oh my life, we already have it stuffed full of the pickles and jams from all that is grown! (Sounds like a complaint which it's not)

MereDintofPandiculation · 19/01/2020 11:31

Oh my life, we already have it stuffed full of the pickles and jams from all that is grown! Why are the pickles and jams in the fridge? Pickling is a standard method of preserving produce as is jam (which is why jams are also called "preserves"). We've just finished some mulberry jam I made in 2010 which has been stored on a shelf.

TwoPointFourKidsAndADog · 19/01/2020 14:20

Oh no, it's not that, it's just we have so many varieties that have been opened and therefore need refrigerating, it takes up a whole shelve and a half out of the entire fridge!

TwoPointFourKidsAndADog · 19/01/2020 14:21

I should say I've had chemo so have to be careful about following strict refrigeration guidelines that perhaps wouldn't normally be followed?

MereDintofPandiculation · 19/01/2020 22:57

I should say I've had chemo so have to be careful Ah, OK, fair enough. (I wouldn't refrigerate opened home-made jam, shop stuff is a different matter). In that case, you need a second "garden" fridge Grin

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