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Doreen Mear

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Re: Seed Packeting
« Reply #15 on: December 02, 2011, 09:27:45 PM »
Hear, hear, Joy!
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Re: Seed Packeting
« Reply #16 on: December 04, 2011, 04:53:50 AM »
I didn't know the silver-foil trick. I ken noo, as they say.Thanks.
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Re: Seed Packeting
« Reply #17 on: December 04, 2011, 10:01:48 AM »
I probably wouldn't have, Anthony, until I started packeting duties a few years ago, and some of the packets were sent from Eastern Europe that way.  I thought it a very good idea a the time.
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Re: Seed Packeting
« Reply #18 on: December 04, 2011, 11:23:47 AM »
Nothing new under the sun
Donors did the foil packets many years ago when I was Seed Manager.
Joyce even explained the method before me except she advocated silver foil from fag packets.Now not very PC
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Re: Seed Packeting
« Reply #19 on: December 04, 2011, 11:33:30 AM »
But it would have worked all the same, Jean.  Maybe we can get a mention in about it before people start gathering their seed next year.... I'll ask....
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Re: Seed Packeting
« Reply #20 on: December 04, 2011, 06:57:54 PM »
Well of course many chocolates come wrapped in silver, gold or other-coloured foil so I'm sure some Forumists at least could have quite a hoard of it before the harvest gets going. You could colour match the foil to the flower colour of the seeds. (Or perhaps that's expecting a bit much? ;D

Anthony, the thing you have to watch out for when unwrapping the foil (from the seeds, not the chocs) is not accidentally to flick the edge and scatter the seeds to all corners. I have done that a couple of times.
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Re: Seed Packeting
« Reply #21 on: December 05, 2011, 12:26:16 AM »
here is a simple way to recycle your old seed catalog by doing envelop with them


http://www.dailymotion.com/embed/video/x45ah8_sachet-de-graine-en-papier-sans-agr_tech"






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Re: Seed Packeting
« Reply #22 on: December 05, 2011, 12:35:17 PM »
Welcome, Floricole! And thank you for that link... the video shows very clearly how to make the seed packet. 8)
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