How do you store your seeds?

I was just wondering how you all stored your seeds? I was thinking of getting a fishing tackle box to stored mine in so it would be a little bit more organized. At the moments they are all stash in just a cardboard box. Another friend of mine used a small filing cabinet & have her all in catagories of vegatables, herbs, annuals, & perennials.
All ideas are greatly appreciated, Thank in advance.

I store mine in 35mm film canisters sealed in a Zip lok bag in the fridge.

Paul

Among the very first threads here at DG was on this subject:

http://davesgarden.com/showthread/114.html

Lots of responses there to go through!

Dave

PaulGrow:thats how I store my pollen as well as seeds.

I keep mine in paper clipped envelopes in a glass jar with kitty litter in the refrigerator. vic

I use the film canisters too, then just keep them in a draw in the green house.

Did you ever take the picture of your seed drawer thingy that you mention Dave?

So now what am I supposed to do with all the left over seeds from last year??? I don't want to mix them with this years crop. I thought of "composting" them just for the heck of it, Not really - HEE HEE. Wouldn't that be a shocker next Spring.

Manila coin envelopes inside of invitation size (baron sized?) envelopes inside of black plastic 4X6 index card boxes on the shelf store most of my seeds and spores.

For the special items that I wish to keep for very long periods I place the manila envelopes inside a pint canning jar with 3/4" of blue indicator silica gel in the bottom of the jar. This either goes into the fridge, or if I anticipate holding on to the seeds for a VERY long time, into the freezer. Freeze/thaw cycles are suppossed to be bad though.

I've been told that moisture and heat are the enemies of seed viability, and the silica gel should take the seeds down to ~8% moisture, thus hopefully preserving them until I get around to planting or trading them.

The manila envelopes are marked with species, variety, date harvested, and any special notes I feel might be relevant.

-G-

Azalea,
Seeds from last year are still good if you have stored them in a cool, dark environment. Purchased seeds are almost always from the previous year. If I still have plants for all the seeds I have stored, I generally offer them to newbies for postage. The exception is annuals. I do hold on to those if I want to grow them again or trade/post them if I don't. I have a wooden chest in the basement to store my seeds in and manage to fill it each year so I don't like to keep things from year to year. I also still trade them if I let people know they are from the year before. I do usually try to keep a pinch of things set back for myself just incase the plants meet with their demise. Just my method.
Michele

I continue to offer seeds from the prior year, I just make a note as to what year they are from. Sometimes I will mix all the 'prior' year perrenials together and all the annuals together in similar hights or colours or whatever I feel like doing that year and offer "Michele's Mix", you would be surprised at how often it is requested in trades or SASE. I store my seeds in film canisters or in measured amounts in coin envelopes(or whatever) organized in dark green plastic shoe boxes with silica packs in them, in the crawl space of my house, it's a constant 55 degrees and I can access it via a trap door in the floor of the closet of the room that my computer is in.