Lynsey Grosfield
In the peakseed - harvesting season , my kitchen quickly becomes a fix of unlabeled bowls and containers , with dry flower head turned every which way , Mass of mysterious pods and vats fill with fermenting fruits , like tomatoes . Usually , I ’m the only individual who really has a handle on what is what . Once seeds are processed — be that by drying , winnowing , fermenting , depulping or shell — there is the eternal question of depot . This is not only a interrogation of space , but also a question of temperature , light and moisture , all of which constituent in to the longer - terminus viability of the seeds .
For the past few years , I ’ve been using sandwich bag , envelope and all sorts of recycled containers to stack away my assemblage : hastily - write notes about the cultivar have been scribble with a Sharpie wherever possible . I ’ve had a germ binder , which promptly turn into a cum shoebox and then into a plastic seeded player tub .
This twelvemonth , I decided to overhaul my seed aggregation . Being both an avid accumulator and swapper of cum , I prefer to make up a more uniform solution to my publicity mayhem .
Custom seed envelopes are not a new mathematical product by any substance . Burgon and Ballmakes a fine set , gross with a canister in which seeds can be stored away from the elements . I ’m also far from the onlyEtsy sellermaking germ envelopes . My salient point , however , is this : The lesson I ’ve determine from redeem and storing my own seeds over the years have move into making a stationary solution that works for me and is easy for you to repeat at home .
Firstly , I have used glassine envelopes as the first origin of aegis for self - glean seed . Glassine is a pH - electroneutral , water- and grunge - resistant textile , and being translucent , it preclude seeds from being lost in dreary corners of a packet .
Secondly , I have created an exterior gasbag that shields out light .
Using customs duty stamps , I created fields on the front that allow me to document the information on the plant and when the seeds were harvested .
On the back , I can record sprouting information , as with a commercial seed mailboat . All of the materials are easy to feel to make your own cum - economise envelopes of a uniform size of it and quality ; barring that , I also offermy envelope for sale , as do many other horticulture business enterprise , large and small .
Any direction you go about it , invest in a solution that allow for ejaculate to be accessed like a visiting card catalog save meter , vigour and blank .
