Saving seeds will only help you if you remember where you put those saved seeds and what they are. This seed packet template will help you keep things organized and guarantee a bumper crop next year. Although bumpers as we all know are notoriously difficult to grow.
If you've been doing things right this summer there are two things you have in your possession right now. A speeding ticket and a garden full of vegetables. Who can resist the urge of rolling down the windows on a hot summer night, blaring Muscle Shoals music on a dusty country road that happens to be filled with radar detectors?
Having said that, I should point out that if you speed you probably never get ticketed. It's the people who speed once in their life who get caught that very time.
I realized at a young age that my wages from the mall clothing store could not support both a pair of bondage pants and a speeding ticket so I didn't speed. I still don't. But if I one day do speed - I will get a ticket.
It's the same law that ensures the day you're finally getting your hair cut it looks fantastic and the one time you go out wearing pajama pants with a mustard stain on the crotch, wearing a fork as a barrette you will run into an ex.
Then there's the vegetables. If you planted even the smallest garden you should be overrun with vegetables and flowers by now. Unless cucumber beetles passed some sort of stupid wilt onto your zucchini, in which case you're not overwhelmed with vegetables but merely overrun. There's a difference.
To save zucchini seeds, by the way, you have to let the zucchini get to mammoth proportions so the seeds are big enough to harvest. The size of zucchini you'd normally eat barely even has visible seeds. So let it grow, let it grow, let it grow if you want to save seeds.
Most people also have flowers blooming, tomatoes growing and herbs going to seed. So NOW is the time to start collecting seeds to use next year. At the very least now is the time to print out really cute Art of Doing Stuff seed packets for free.
I made these just for you.
Just click on the packets above and you'll get the full sized image which you can print on your computer and then cut them out for seed packets. 2 of them should fill an entire standard size piece of computer paper. If it doesn't fill the entire page check to make sure your printing mode is set to full size, or just increase the percentage until it's large enough. The cleaver on the package is my own, actual cleaver by the way. I took a picture of it and then fiddled with the photo until it looked just right for the seed package.
You can print the seed packets on regular computer paper or do what I did which was use plain brown paper. Just cut the brown paper to the size of standard computer paper.
Print the packets, cut them out and fold them along the fold lines. Glue or tape the back together and start sorting seeds.
As your seeds start to become available now you won't have to use regular envelopes that are way too big to hold the few seeds you have.
So print at will and print as often as you like.
If you missed the link up top, here is the link to the seed packets. I'll have an in depth look at how to save seeds in a post coming up.
And just say no to speeding. On the other hand I don't want to hear that any of you have EVER turned down the volume of Sweet Home Alabama.
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Lynn
Oh love your seed packets Karen. Same here I believe in the speed limits, even if it piss’s people off behind me. An I love cruise control for the very reason tunes to many to name just make me happy going down the hwy. An yes every time we go out we are on the hwy, as there is not much in our small town to shop plus hwy is main road in town. Only time I am not on cruise is wet roads or heavy traffic, then the tunes just get turned up :) . Then again I know my roads well and my car so , i know when to let off the gas and coast to a lower speed with out touching the brakes. I will touch them if someone is behind me just so they know I am slowing down but that’s all. I am not saying I have not had fun though as you can with out excess speed and one way streets :). I have beets at the moment starting to go to seed and i have been letting two of them go for it just so I can get the seeds, so your seed packets will come in handy an perfect timing thank you.
Karen
You're welcome! ~ karen
Marie Anne
Thanks Karen, this is perfect! I have yucca flower seeds out the wazoo. I've already given a bunch of the pods away, but the seeds are inside and once I figure out the best way to preserve them the packets are perfect!
Carol Kincaid
Thanks! Always looking for something to put my seeds in! I save every seed I can get! I to do not speed as I am afraid of getting pulled over and tazered!
Susan T Blake
Wheeee! I have a speeding ticket AND vegetables! My first in... 30 years? Speeding ticket, that is. And I've been driving The Corvette for 14 of them. And I am so overwhelmed by zucchini that we've gone from sweet little courgettes to giant squashes with saveable seeds to petrified wood that can't even be cut into. Tomato seeds fermented on top of the fridge, though, I can still do that...
I'm still giggling at the idea of a school bus speeding along to Enter Sandman... Why is there no Like button on comments? My favorite temptation for speeding, though, is Steppenwolfe's "Magic Carpet Ride." Just sayin'.
Bev out west
Magic Carpet Ride....Ohhh yeah!
Humming that one as I speed-make some seed packets (❤️ Karen).
Mel Robicheau
Thanks! This is the first year I'm foraging into saving my vegetable seeds. I shared this on a Facebook gardening page I'm part of, I bet 2 they will love it too!
Paula
I checked both of those places but to no avail. I had a brainwave and I just did a search for corn salad instead of mache or miner's lettuce and voila, it was there!
Paula
Where did you find Mache seeds? I have been searching for ages!
Karen
Hmm. I can't remember, lol. But my guess would be William Dam or Cubits. :) ~ karen!
David
Thank you for sharing this.
Karen
You're very welcome David. I had fun making it. ~ karen!
Brooksie
Love this! Thank you so much for sharing! Found it at the perfect time to send seeds out for the seed swap my facebook group is having. Thanks again!
Karen
A Facebook seed swap! That sounds like fun. (I have no idea when I became the person who thinks getting a perfect cling wrap seal and seed swaps are among the most fun things ever, lol) ~ karen!
Tina
What a great idea! Does anyone want seeds from my fabulous raspberries?
Tina
Jess
Can I just say I love that you include so many photos in your post so that when I go to pin them I have a good selection of options for the photo I want? :)
Karen
LOL. Well, that's the first compliment like that I've received! And thank you THANK YOU for pinning. :) ~ karen!
LazySusan
No garden, so no seeds, but I can shrink that image down to a size that will hold each of the various sizes of the hundreds of sewing needles I pulled from a pin cushion I bought for a dime at a garage sale! Thanks, Karen!
Kathy
As soon as I saw the seed packets in the picture I was soooo jealous. Now, I'm not because I can download my own. Thanks Karen!
Cher Bartlett
How much fun does that look like? I'm still trying to figure out how to get chickens in an urban back yard without the coyotes wanting to come by for a quick snack. I know, urban and coyotes don't go together, but when they start to build into the open space, the critters come down for food and water. Therefore, cats and dogs are all in at night!
I'm looking for someone that will let me take care of their chicken coop in exchange for a few eggs, to see if I would even like it! Until then, I keep perusing your blog! :)
Marsha Jean
Well, 1 out of 2 anyway...got the speeding ticket, but the veggies? Not so much...we traveled a lot this summer and housesitter took care of pets, but, apparently, the garden was on it's own. First ticket, been driving since 16yrs old, and am now 58. Oh, well...
Sandy
Thank you, Karen. This is neat!
Alicia
OK so I had to up to the top again to see the shoes, the nails, and the top. I'm the kind of person who glances at everything then goes back and rereads. I agree the shoes are super cute. Love the seed packets although not sure about the cleaver... maybe a chicken next time? The fork as a barrette cracked me up. You are one sassy Karen girl!
Karen
LOL. Well .. the cleaver is actually my logo so I'm gonna have to stick with that. But I"ll keep chickens in mind for the next seed packet go round. ~ karen!
Trish R
Thank you for these! Just yesterday, I stumbled upon another site that had free seed packet downloads, and was all like, "What, wait, why hasn't Karen done this?! She should totally do this" and then fast forward to today and tada!
Great minds!! Thanks again!
Trish
Leslie
ohhhh! This post turned out to be EXACTLY what I was hoping it would be when I read the title!!! ADORABLE!!! Thank you!
Nancy Blue Moon
Tell Betty that you need to go back to Thailand to pick up a truckload of Union Jack shoes..I'll take a size 7.5 W US..my planting in containers worked out great this year..bunches of sweet juicy tomatoes and crispy leaf lettuce..I will be trying a couple more things next year..Thanks for the scary seed packets..they will look good with my scary tea towel...
Mary Werner
I love those packets and intend to use them as pockets in my scrapbooking. But I will take pictures of others peoples flowers since my garden died while waiting for me to scrapbook. Thanks so much for the freebie.