"K" wrote in message
Farm1 writes

Last night as I was furkling in my pantry and trying to decide
whether
to throw out the calf milk replacer or not and I came across
another
collection of seeds - some saved, some bought.

The list goes on (and I haven't even really mentioned any of the
flowers other than the poppies)! I love saving seeds from open
pollinated varieties but I really must either get busy and grow
some
to resave or throw out most of them - perhaps I should just
broadcast
them or sow them in poystyrene boxes and see what happens. Any
thoughts?

My biggest problem is what to do with the rest of the seed packet
when
I've sown half (share it with others means a) I have to find an
other
who wants the same seed and b) it's difficult to re-sow after
germination or watering failure if I've given all the seeds away!),
and
what to do with the other 250 sweet williams when I've planted out
the
first 50.

You now have the same problem writ large ;-)

I see you know what I'm facing :-))

What you could do, is sow the whole lot, and let us know the age of
each
batch and the germination rate. That's if you felt really dedicated
to
improving the corporate urg knowledge base ;-)

Not a bad suggestion but given the amount of seeds and the area I have
available, I'd have to do it over a number of years :-))