How Long Can We Keep Our Old Packets Of Seed?
Amateur Gardening|February 17,2018

Toby looks at ways to find out if seed is viable and recalls how a 32,000-year-old seed was brought back to life

Toby Buckland
How Long Can We Keep Our Old Packets Of Seed?

NESTLED among the impedimenta or, as Lisa impolitely calls it, “clutter” beneath the greenhouse bench, I’ve discovered a bundle of lost seeds missing in action since last spring. They must have got knocked off the bench and during their months of confinement they’ve clearly had a time of it. Dripped on from above and nibbled by mice, the paper sachets containing them wouldn’t look out of place in King Tut’s tomb!

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