Flower Seed Expiration Dates?
Posted: Thu Apr 25, 2013 7:03 am
It's amazing what you find when you poke around in the back of kitchen drawers! In the "miscellaneous junk" drawer, I found 5 packets of flower seeds. It seemed a fortuitous find until I glanced at the dates on the packets ... 3 of them are from 2000 and 2 of them are from 2001! Are they still good? I notice the wording is actually that they were packaged for 2000 or 2001 as opposed to they absolutely won't sprout at all. They were probably optimum for planting 13 years ago but it's worth a try.
If Russian scientists can take a wildflower found in the permafrost of Siberia and extinct for hundreds of thousands of years and somehow create an environment where they not only are resuscitated but flourish and bloom, then surely my little 13 year old Burpee snapdragons will come to life. The experiment begins!
The seed packets are for:
Zinnia (Liliput, Mixed Colors)
Snapdragon (First Ladies, Mixed Colors)
Sweet Pea (Jet Set, Mixed Colors, Knee High)
Moonflower (Giant White)
Dianthus (Cheddar Pink)
If Russian scientists can take a wildflower found in the permafrost of Siberia and extinct for hundreds of thousands of years and somehow create an environment where they not only are resuscitated but flourish and bloom, then surely my little 13 year old Burpee snapdragons will come to life. The experiment begins!
The seed packets are for:
Zinnia (Liliput, Mixed Colors)
Snapdragon (First Ladies, Mixed Colors)
Sweet Pea (Jet Set, Mixed Colors, Knee High)
Moonflower (Giant White)
Dianthus (Cheddar Pink)