Beauty Farming Life

When we were cutting up our pie pumpkins recently, I put a bunch of seeds in a bowl for possible roasting and put it in the fridge.  Apparently, two seeds were on the outside edge of the bowl and dropped off on the backside.  They stayed there for a few days behind a milk carton. We moved it and found this: Pumpkin seeds sprouting The right temperature and the right amount of moisture and they sprouted!  Amazing how resilient and persistent this natural process is. We wanted to keep them and put them in the ground but realistically, it is Winter and they aren't going to survive a freeze (possibly next week according to the weather).   Still, it was fun to see nature doing what it does best.

A friend of ours has a wife who is a teacher. Her school ordered seeds for a class project and then, sadly, cancelled the project.   All the seeds were given to the students that wanted to take them home.    These are what were left over, f rom the Seeds of Change company.  They had them stored in a closet for a couple of years and then decided to move.  S he asked if we wanted them for the farm. Free seeds?  Sure! There are seeds of all types of veggies, melons, herbs, even a few flowers.  The packets are a kind of vinyl that is heat sealed so we're guessing they are sealed up well.  However, they are about 2 years old now, maybe going on 3.  What do y'all think?  Do you think they are still viable?  Not sure what lifespan seeds like this have.  It probably wouldn't make sense to open every single packet to test each variety.  Maybe we should just leave them sealed in their packages until p...