nevermind dates... most of the plants I started this year was from seed I bought seven years ago - it was the last seeds for those varieties and was able to start of planety to select the best plant. If you take some care in the germination conditions all goes well.
I don't even put half as much care into storing them right as some people do (who freeze them, ziplock them, store them with rice to suck the environmental moisture away...)
heated propagator, with constant bottom heating and non-soggy but poor soil should do the trick - the seedlings go under the lights as soon as possible since I have to start in february/march which is still kinda dark in Belgium.
I learned about presoaking them in tea or nutrified water (Peter, Schultz, fish, seaweed) although I read somewhere on the net that plain water was better than the nutrified ones. When I have results below expectations there is the deno method (moist paper towel in plastic bag) and that mostly clears out the rest of the failures...
don't just throw away old seeds, feel free to send them to me ;-)
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