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  • From: "breck" <bcarden AT breckinridgegroup.com>
  • To: "'Market Farming'" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Seed Storage
  • Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 14:13:00 -0400

Alison,
I should have known you would be ahead of me.

Farmer Breck
Breck Carden
Carden's Garden
2400 E Hwy 22
Crestwood, KY 40014-7704



-----Original Message-----
From: market-farming-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org
[mailto:market-farming-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Wiediger,
Alison
Sent: Monday, March 16, 2009 1:52 PM
To: Market Farming
Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Seed Storage

Hello Marie,

It's a job, both to keep the seeds in some sort of order, and to mark
sure you get them all planted.

We use Sterlite containers that we have made dividers in using cardboard
and duct tape for keeping in order. We have a box for high tunnel, a
box for outdoor/small seeds, and a box for beans/peas/corn etc which are
in large bags. Then within the longitudinal sections, we have cardboard
dividers - about the size of a seed packet and a little taller - between
types of seeds - tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, herbs, flowers, broccoli,
cabbage, etc. And, within a section, we have them in alpha order (or at
least we START that way!) Seems to be working. We actually used bins we
were retiring from harvesting mesclun in, so had no investment at all
and will keep in the cooler for the summer to protect from insects.

For the second challenge, I have developed a spread sheet. The first
worksheet is a seed ordering sheet with crop, variety, days-to-maturity,
vendor, item#, qty , price, etc. When this is filled in, I can sort by
vendor, and have a great list to place orders from. The second
worksheet is our planting date sheet which has crop/variety carried from
WS1, seeded or transplanted, date to plant, how much, cell size, date
actually planted, date to transplant, date actually transplanted,
anticipated date of first harvest (figured from date of seed or
transplant + DTM), actual DTM here, field, etc. This sheet,
sorted by seeding or transplanting date and printed gives us a work plan
for the day. I developed it last year and am still fine tuning it, but
it works really well and didn't take long to develop. It does take a
fair amount of time to keep up with the data entry, but is (and will be
) worth it.

Alison Wiediger, Au Naturel Farm

-----Original Message-----
From: market-farming-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org
[mailto:market-farming-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Marie
Kamphefner
Sent: Monday, March 16, 2009 11:31 AM
To: farmersue AT myfairpoint.net; 'Market Farming'
Subject: [Market-farming] Seed Storage

Regards to the List:

Here I sit, at the dining room table, surrounded by packets of seeds.
There's a huge pile for direct seeding in May, a pile of peas for April,
greens, lettuces, herbs, some that might be outdated, new ones . . . the
list goes on and on.

How do you keep all the seeds straight? Some of these might end up like
my garlic did this winter - forgotten or lost. I think I need to figure
out a system to keep track of the seeds we have other than in shoeboxes
stacked inside a big tote and put in the basement.

Any advice?

Marie in Missouri


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