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The Best Ways to Store Seeds

(Organize your future garden with seed storage ideas for all types of containers)

If you’ve collected the seeds from your summer garden, the fall vegetables will soon have a bounty of seeds to save, or maybe you have excess from planting earlier in the year, you might need some good seed storage ideas. Those seeds represent a bounty of food and foliage for the next planting season so you’ll want to store them properly so they aren’t lost or damaged before you need them. Here are some of the best seed storage ideas and containers to ensure that your seeds remain viable and organized.

Pillboxes
8-Track Case (What’s an 8-Track, Grandpa?)
Photo Albums
Filing Cabinet
Photo Case
Various Commercial Organizers
Mason Jars
Ziplock Bags

https://www.thespruce.com/simple-and-creative-seed-storage-ideas-4109218

TAH-DAH! I took an over-the door shoe organizer and attached it (duct tape) to the back side of my seed starting rack and now I have an easy way to organize my seeds, see what's on hand, or what I still need. It takes up little space, too! If I had a colored seed packet I put that one in first; no need to label what's in each pocket. I kind-of organized the seeds based upon what I start and/or plant first. You can organize it any way that works best for you.

Peppers were all in one pouch, but I divided the tomatoes by Roma-Types, Slicers/Canners and Cherry-types.

These seeds got top billing, as they are seeds I will plant first in the spring, or am growing inside over winter such as lettuces and spinach.

This shoe organizer has 24 pockets and was about $6 from Walmart. I also have one over the pantry door (on the inside) that holds additional Prepper items, and I use one in my office, again on the inside of the door that hold craft supplies. It just kind of dawned on me the other day that this would work for seed storage, too. And it does. Yay!

Separate by vegetable type, put them in ziplock sandwich bags, put the bags in an opaque sterilite type box from Ikea, keep them in a top shelf in the garage out of the sunlight.

See next post...my Kansas Neighbors a little more storage space than I do!