"Kay Lancaster" wrote in message
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On Mon, 02 Jul 2012 19:46:12 -0400, Brooklyn1 Gravesend1 wrote:
Higgs Boson wrote:

Finally neatening up my messy seeds. How to save the "winter" seeds
for next year? Radish, bokchoy, spinach, lettuce, sugar peas, carrots,
etc.

In my experinece it's a false economy to save vegetable seeds; buy
only as much as you can use (share with a fellow gardener if you can).
There is no economy in planting old seeds that don't germinate. By
the time you realize they are useless you've lost the growing season.

But if you store seeds correctly, they'll germinate for many years. I've
grown sunflowers from 20 year old seeds, same germination percent as
marked on the package.

And some plants such as pumpkins grow best from seed several years old.
(although that applies to the plants Australians called pumpkins - I have no
idea if that also applies to the plants that USians call pumpkins)

And for those of us who want to have seeds acclimatised to our locales,
there is a need to both save needs and to use non-hybrids.