Quick tip - can you sow old seeds?

[@GardenerScott]

Nice video, Eli. You make it so simple and easy for any gardener to do. Thanks!

[@eliandkate]

Thanks Scott. It's just one of those things that it's so obvious once someone tells you about it. Hopefully, it'll be useful to someone 😀

[@TheGrowUpChannel]

This will help so many new gardeners. Great little video Eli. That wind wasn't half shaking that fence 😵‍💫

[@eliandkate]

Would you believe I didn't notice the fence at the time? I saw it when I was editing and thought, so that's what was making the noise??!!

[@TheGrowUpChannel]

@@eliandkate we're not in Kansas anymore Dorothy

[@eliandkate]

🤣😂🤣😂🤣 I'll get my stripy tights

[@michaeld.3779]

Thanks, Eli. Good teaching. Looks like you don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows, too.

[@eliandkate]

Ha ha ha usually I blues right through the blooming garden 😄 😀 👍

[@BloosSelfReliance]

Awesome thanks hun. That makes me feel way better probably 80% of my seeds are "old seeds" lol

[@eliandkate]

See, you are being resourceful 😀😀😀

[@BloosSelfReliance]

@@eliandkate lol can’t help it I’m addicted lol 😂

[@noelleparris9451]

I saw you with Gardener Scott, and your conversation was super interesting and informative. Subscribed to your channel so I could hear more. Thanks for what you do, for sharing your experiences!

[@eliandkate]

Awww thank Noelle, Lovely to have you with us 😀

[@Bev437Sqn]

Thanks for a very easy to follow, instructional video. Cheers from BC Canada 🇨🇦 home of the Freedom Convoy

[@eliandkate]

You're welcome! :D and you know I'm now google freedom convoy yeah?

[@myrustygarden]

@@eliandkate 😭 no politics or Covid debates just gardening 👩‍🌾

[@eliandkate]

😀 don't worry, none if that here. I got a big delete button.

[@jennyjohnson9012]

Definitely doing this as I have lots of old seed packets, I just cant bear to throw them away!! Thanks for yet another fab tip Eli !

[@eliandkate]

Awesome glad it was helpful 😀😀

[@DigwellGreenfingers]

Nice one. I start half of my seeds off like this anyway, in Chinese takeaway containers on top of the tropical fish tank - free heat LOL. When they germinate I just cut the paper around the seed (without moving the seed and damaging the baby root) into a sort of 1cm square then plant the whole thing in compost.

[@eliandkate]

Oh loving the tropical fish tank tip. That's brilliant!!!

[@DigwellGreenfingers]

@@eliandkate LOL I have some Red Brunswick onions on there at present trying to chit! The first lot were sown into an Agralan plug trainer and only one germinated - and these are new seeds dated 2021!!

[@eliandkate]

Ach they should be fine then.... almost new

[@DigwellGreenfingers]

@@eliandkate One of my subscribers was saying he's had to chit his 2nd lot too. Maybe a bad harvest (exactly why you do your thing LOL). Let's face it, there are only a few growers and seed savers and they sell to every supplier so if T&M are bad then there's a good chance that Fothergills, Suttons, Dobies, Marshalls etc are bad too (yes, I know some are the same company but I can't think of any more off the top of my head LOL)

[@eliandkate]

That is sooooo true

[@marksallotmentplot]

Great video Eli and a fab way to save some money. Always worth trying old seeds before buying new 👍

[@eliandkate]

Definitely.... I've not had a batch fail yet

[@janicejurgensen2122]

Loving your channel!! I’ve watched 7 in a row! I’m hooked!! Thank you very much! From NJ USA

[@eliandkate]

7!!!!!!!!!! I hope they were at least entertaining

[@rudozemeu3357]

I don't even know how seeds look like or how food is produced, but i have ordered my first packs to give a try for the whole garden for the first time in my life and its all both of you😁 Thank you both of you for been so Addictive

[@eliandkate]

Oh, what have you ordered and what are your plans? Just to warn you, gardening is super addictive, before you know it you'll be in the supermarket scoffing at people paying for washed salad leaves 😀😀😀

[@rudozemeu3357]

@@eliandkate Beans , potatoes , Kale ,Tomatoes, and spring onions. Its zone 5b here but because im next to a river flushing the cold waters from nothern ice mountains Bulgaria and Romania its about the same climate as yours.

[@eliandkate]

Fingers crossed for you 🤞🤞🤞

[@rudozemeu3357]

@@eliandkateSomething will grow eventualy its a untouched soil for 12years full of wild fruit plants maybe never cultivated .

[@myrustygarden]

Lovely update and yes I need to do more testing before just buying more, thank you for sharing 🐝 safe ladies

[@eliandkate]

😀😀😀

[@kimhamilton9069]

Good to see you on Gardner Scott today !

[@eliandkate]

😀😀😀 thanks.

[@robinscontainergarden]

Very helpful, Eli, thank you. I don't have any old seeds, but I will file this away for when I need to check them. I did a test early in the winter on seeds I harvested from what I grew last year (not hybrid) in a weensy pot on the windowsill, covered by a clear yogurt lid. Too late in the year to plant them, so went into the compost bin. I'll try this test next time! 😁

[@eliandkate]

Always useful to store tips n tricks

[@robinscontainergarden]

@@eliandkate I have a garden journal that I made (I also make hand-bound books) where I'm keep notes like this from all of my favourite KZbin gardeners, like y'all. ☺️

[@willowgrove631]

This will be really useful for all those random packets at the bottom of the seed tin! I have some home-saved purple French bean seeds from 2016 which still give me around 75% germination rate every year! Hope your fence hangs in there 😉

[@eliandkate]

The fence survived storm malik... let's see how it hangs in there with storm corrie that's just hit this afternoon....

[@garmaldolne679]

Hello Eli, I’m coming from Gardner Scott channel. If he recommended you. I’m looking forward to watching your videos.

[@eliandkate]

Welcome Garmal lovely to have you with us

[@AbundantFoodForest]

Amazing video Eli!! Ultimate gardening here!💚

[@eliandkate]

awww thank you - lovely to have you with us

[@jasonwoods4811]

Great video, in the weather you are having and you are still gardening, you are a Scottish gardening warrior lol :D

[@eliandkate]

If you don't do stuff in the rubbish weather here, you don't do stuff 😀

[@jasonwoods4811]

@@eliandkate Bless ya I have moved into my new place, and my back garden is a blank nothing but I'm busy doing the inside of my place, do you have any advice for me about the garden any would be a great help :D

[@eliandkate]

Can't really give you anything specific cause I don't know you're area but I think the best thing is to dream big, don't be put off... cause you can do it in little bits to make it manageable... so dream big.

[@jasonwoods4811]

@@eliandkate Cheers buddy :D

[@mishx9423]

Great videos, i was watching the fence a lot of the time it was blowing like crazy thought it was going to drop down haha! Thank you for the series of videos they are helpful.

[@eliandkate]

🤣😂🤣 I can assure you second storm hit yesterday and the fence is fine 🙂

[@lynnkehoe4483]

I just found your posting. I've subscribed to your channel. This is wonderful information for someone like myself who can only grow a small garden. Thank you

[@eliandkate]

Awww glad it was helpful Lynne Hopefully there a whole load of other useful stuff for you too 👍

[@chuffedleupagus]

New to your channel and really enjoying it. It would be great if you could do a follow up and show how you pot up the germinated seeds.

[@eliandkate]

Hey Jo You are jn luck, this is something I do, in fact that's what I was doing last week 😃

[@ironian24]

I hope the last storm after mailc was OK, from what I hear that storm was even stronger winds. Hope your all OK there. We got the tail end of the storms in Norfolk so no where near as bad as you guys got is. I also have woke up at 4am worrying about my greenhouse but I don't really need to as I built it 🙃.

[@eliandkate]

We're doing fab thanks 😊 no major problems here

[@terrym8830]

Hi Eli, I’ve told you before how your way of gardening (“ Let’s try this or let’s try that” as a way to figure out what works for our personal gardens), makes you/ your channel a favorite. But now, you just told Gardener Scott you live near a Beechgrove gardener!!! I discovered that show when they first came back after Covid lockdown and cheered them on as they brought it back to life again. Can’t wait for the new season. Am I being too brazen to ask which Beechgrove gardener it is?

[@eliandkate]

Awww thanks Terry.... 😊 it is the lovely George in sunny Joppa.

[@terrym8830]

George!!! So many of you on my list of “ Who I’d like to share an early Morning pot of tea before the morning wander through the garden” ☕️🫖

[@eliandkate]

🤣😂🤣😂

[@Melinda_WA_US]

Two questions: How deep would you plant the seedling (?) after it sprouts in the towel? How long after it sprouts, in there, can you plant it in soil?

[@eliandkate]

Basically you treat them as normal. So plant as deep as you would normally plant that seed and you can sow it straight away after it sprouts. 😀

[@ItsJustGardening]

Great tips. Thank you.

[@eliandkate]

Glad it was helpful 😀

[@gudi361]

Great tipp! Thanks!

[@eliandkate]

Glad it was helpful!

[@justine2488]

Great video. Thanks 😊

[@eliandkate]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@HarwichCAN]

I like to reuse a lot of things and avoid wasting plastic. Fold over any plastic from vegies packaging and clothes pin the original seed envelope to it all. Still holds moisture and can be used over and over.

[@TheBohemianplumfairy]

Loving your videos!

[@eliandkate]

Awwww thanks 😊

[@tiffanyrogerssmith3405]

Hello! I love your videos! I followed your tips in viability test video last year and it worked out great. I noticed this year you folded the paper towel over instead of leaving it flat so you can see it. Is there a reason you are doing it differently this year? Most of my seeds germinated last year and I was able to use them all in my garden. Are you concerned that the unfolding may harm the seeds that germinate?

[@eliandkate]

Hey Tiffany Absolutely no difference, you can do either way. It’s just that random thing of this year I stored a few together and folding it saves space. I would say you do whichever way you feel best about 😀 So what seeds are you testing then, anything exciting?

[@vickibrown8447]

Love your greenhouse, where did you get it please?

[@eliandkate]

From a British company called Rhino but you can get what I think is the exact same greenhouse from Harrow horticulture as well I think

[@vickibrown8447]

Thank you very much 🙂

[@amandasylvester3878]

I had to watch twice as first time I was searching for your onion sets 😆 Are they still in the greenhouse? Mine are but I can't get in since Malik and Corrie in Inverness, door stuck on it's runners!

[@eliandkate]

Oh well noticed. No afraid they got binned. Went squishy. Not the end of the world though, those were the ones I decided weren't good enough to plant. So they really only went in the greenhouse to explain how some people start them off in there

[@amandasylvester3878]

@@eliandkate oh dear. I've got a couple gone squishy so I'll bin them, others have roots growing like crazy, a bit alien like or The Thing 😂

[@eliandkate]

Oh thats good. If they've got lots of roots but you can't plant them out yet, you could pot them on into bigger pots

[@sharon1615]

Great video 🥰

[@eliandkate]

😀😀😀

[@matt8418]

Where did you get that nozzle for the bottle!!! I'm in Australia and would love that!!!

[@eliandkate]

I think it was just a random online purchase… probably Amazon

[@amiladybug9526]

great video thanks

[@eliandkate]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@karenshields1878]

Useful information

[@blackandwhitegreenhouse]

But maybe I *like* buying lots of new seeds!! Only sort of kidding... I think I will try this method for some old seeds I have, that only had a 50% germination rate last year. I did end up wasting a lot of soil with them.

[@eliandkate]

🤣😂🤣😂 Well who am I to spoil your fun

[@fatherofchickens7951]

Greenhouse seems strong....But the fence seems suspect, lol

[@eliandkate]

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@ToskaBss]

thank you!!

[@lynseyhope2800]

I think buying seeds is a whole different hobby from gardening!! 😂

[@eliandkate]

Ha ha ha it is the way some people don't. What have you bought then??

[@lynseyhope2800]

@@eliandkate Actually, with the exception of the tomatoes, not a huge amount. Went through the seeds a few nights ago and need to get some beetroot and parsnips but that's it. Have bought a few new flowers though.

[@eliandkate]

Come grab beetroot if you want, I've got extras 😀

[@noelleparris9451]

😄👍🏾👏🏾 Yes, you're absolutely right!

[@semofarmgirl7642]

Loads of seeds... Yep. I have 5 of those same boxes full of seeds of ALL kinds.

[@eliandkate]

😂😂🤣😂

[@charliehoos9773]

MIGardener on KZbin grew 85 year old seeds.

[@eliandkate]

Must have been stored well 😀

[@raffyfallon3716]

This is what I was wondering about...when my mother passed away I was offered the grocery sack full of seeds she had planted & planned to plant throughout some years. It contained ziplocks filled with packets from the early 90s. 😶 I want them to grow and start my own "heirloom" 😉

[@Mav...]

wait, did i miss it? did they germinate? What %?

[@eliandkate]

That was a couple of years ago…. Yes they did you can follow on through the year and see all the growing