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If you plant a garden, from where do you buy your seeds? I saw an ad for Heirloom Organics, but that's more seed than I want for now. I've also been told St. Clare's Seeds. Just looking for non-modified seed that Monsanto hasn't had their hands in!P.S. We don't have a huge area to use for a garden.
...And then, if you DO save seed, you have way too much!
I would definitely share seeds, especially since bulk-purchase is a better deal overall. How long do seeds last, in general? How should they be maintained?
It really depends on the plant that the seeds are for, and how special the seeds are to you.I've grown blue lake green beans from 10 year old seeds that weren't stored anyplace/anyhow special, and sweet peas from 20 year old seeds found in the back of an old cupboard smothered in dust. They just took a longer time to germinate.Tiny seeded plants like carrots or lettuce don't tend to last nearly that long, even if you coddle them.If you've got space, store them as best you can, and then try 'em the next year anyway. If you don't have space, check and see if it's one of the vegetables that you do better with if you thin them out to the strongest plant, and then sow them thick.If they're F1s, then you can't just grow them and recover seeds from the mature fruits, but if they are not, don't worry about saving any seeds. Collect seeds from the plant that did the best where you are.