How to Store Vegetable Seeds
Properly storing vegetable seeds can help you store left-over vegetable seeds after you are done planting. Proper storage can also be used to store vegetable seeds that you get from your own vegetables after they are done growing. These seeds can be stored for years and still be used.
Supplies needed.
- Freezer bag
- Paper towels
- Envelopes
- Marker
- Rinse your vegetable seeds off in water. Make sure that you use cold water. Using a bowl that is filled with water to rinse off your seeds is an option. Rinsing them off under running water is another option.
- Lie out a paper towel and dry your vegetable seeds. It is important that you remove moisture from the seeds. Moisture can damage the seeds and make them unusable when you retrieve the seeds from storage.
- Place the dry seeds into the envelope. Use the marker to write down which kind of seed that the envelope contains. Do not mix different kinds of seeds in the same envelope. Keep the seeds from different vegetables separate.
- Take the envelope with the seeds and place the envelope into a freezer bag.
- Place the freezer bag into your refrigerator. Do not place the vegetable seeds in the freezer. The freezer is too cold and will damage your vegetable seeds. Keeping the vegetable seeds in the back of the refrigerator is a good idea. It keeps the seeds out of the way and away from the possible danger of things being placed on top of them.
- Repeat the above steps until you have all your vegetable seeds safely stored.