Showing posts with label best before date. Show all posts
Showing posts with label best before date. Show all posts

Tuesday, 18 March 2014

Sorting the seeds...

Buying new vegetable seeds is a bit of a habit but one that I try and curb. However, it does mean that when it comes to choosing what I could plant in the garden this year I had plenty to choose from...

Before I choose I always check for the best before date on the back of the seed packet as I am always given ageing seeds by family members so try and plant the ones that will go out of date by the end of the year.

Once this is done I divide the packets into a few categories:
- Outside vegetable patch and can be sown outside
- Outside vegetable patch but to be sown indoors
- Sown indoors and grow indoors
- Slugs favourite so to be planted in troughs!

The latter division is so I can try and be a slug-free zone this year as I hope to grow lettuce outside... Fingers crossed!

So ... The seeds are sorted ... Now to the planting!