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Old 18-05-2003, 03:32 PM
Sue & Bob Hobden
 
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Default Keeping opened seed packets?


"Drakanthus" wrote in message
Do brassica and other veg seeds keep from one year to the next? If so what
is the best way to do this?

There are always far too many cabbage seeds in a packet (Durham early) and
rather than waste any I plant the lot and typically get 100% germination.
This means we have a serious glut of cabbage at this time of the year. No
visitors are allowed to leave without taking a cabbage with them. Our
neighbours help, but they can only eat so many. We eat cabbage everyday

and
will soon start to look like cabbages. I am on the verge of grabbing
pedestrians as they walk past the house "Pssst, Mister, Want a cabbage?".
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We use most of them from year to year without trouble. Just reseal the
packet and put somewhere cool and dry, we use the under-stairs cupboard.
Normally buy new if more than two years old.

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Bob

www.pooleygreengrowers.org.uk/ about an Allotment site in
Runnymede fighting for it's existence.