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  • From: Roots Farm & Karen Sutherland <rootsfarm AT cwdom.dm>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Seed Storage, Time Saving, Labelling
  • Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 16:08:31 -0400

Like Courtney, I use plastic bags but add a couple of those desiccant packets (come with vitamins, shoes, etc.) to each bag, then store the bags separately in the fridge, grouped into bigger bags only into major families (e.g., lettuce, asian greens, squash, etc.). The seeds have to be allowed to come to room temperature before opening the plastics to avoid condensation from our usually humid air. I am also just starting to keep in same bags with seeds, any notes I have as to different specifics (e.g., which type of bean, for example, likes hot wet weather, disease resistance, special spacing, etc.). Thanks to you all, I am trying new system for labeling in the field. Mini-blind slats cut to 12" or so with varietal name of varieties we regularly plant in indelible pen and current season info. (e.g., date of seed, seed co., expected days to harvest, dates started, transplanted, harvested, plus any unusual cultural directions) written in pencil, to ease note-keeping, later permanent recording elsewhere, then finally erasing ready for re-use.
We've moved into dry season here with a vengeance...a more dramatic shift than other years as we went from too wet to too dry in the blink of an eye instead of the once usual pattern of back and forthing for a while. Will for first time not try to plant, bring in crops during dry season -- just take care of what's in the land and hopefully, have time for longer-range projects like getting net tents erected against bird damage. Loss of citrus island-wide (to disease tristesia) has put Dominican birds in a desperate food situation and they are wreaking havoc on crops -- not even eggplant and cucumbers are safe.
Best wishes to all,

Karen

*Karen Sutherland** **
**Roots Farm**
Organic Produce: Fruits, Roots, Vegetables & Herbs*
Cockrane, Dominica
767-449-3038
rootsfarm AT cwdom.dm <mailto:rootsfarm AT cwdom.dm>



courtney mcleod wrote:
I have used those watch thingies from Lee Valley also, but then I don't the
growing info from the packet along with the seeds. So I only use them for
seeds I collect from around the yard. What I do is simple, just keep
lettuce in one ziplock bag, tomatoes in one etc, you get the idea then all
the bags go into one tote. Has worked for me for years now!

Courtney
Herb Thyme
Middlefield, Oh

-----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 12:31 PM
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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