This year, I'm trying to revive some of my old seeds, only self grown seeds from 2008 and the following years up to 2016. I've pre-soaked the seeds from 2008 to 2015 (not 2016) in diluted fish emulsion for 48 hours, then put some into zip lock baggies, some directly into the usual starting mixture. Those from 2008 did not show up yet (11 days), but I'll wait. The others from 2009 and the following years already did - all after 5 days and MUCH better in the soil than in the baggies. I have much more seedlings than I had expected, from some varieties 100% germination.
The seeds from 2016 did very well without any pre-treatment, so will hopefully do the varieties from 2017 - 2019 which are still waiting.
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