"Frogleg" wrote in message
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On 17 Apr 2005 19:08:37 -0700, "Chuckie" wrote:

I found some lettuce, carrot and tomato seeds the are close to 13 years
old.
will they Grow?

Seed viability declines over time -- faster for some than others. The
way to find out if any are still viable is to plant them.

Yep. I recently found a sealed package of Poppy seeds that were packed in
1989. I planted the whole package in a outside container this season, and
out of perhaps 500 seeds, have had about 10 (ten) actually germinate and
begin growing. You need to plant the entire package, because doing a
germination test is useless after a certain percentage - ten out of 500 is
what, 0.02% ?? Too low for zero...