Seed Envelopes: Free Printable for Seed Saving

A growing group of gardeners is going back to saving their own garden seeds. Seed saving not only saves money, but gives you a way to collect rare varieties and keep growing your favorites year after year! These free printable seed envelopes are a great way to store your seeds!

While seed envelopes can be purchased, they are expensive if you need very many. Personally, I save seeds to save money in my garden, so I’m not exactly excited about paying a lot for premade seed envelopes. For anyone else wanting to save a little money, printing your own seed envelopes is what I do and it’s a great option!

These seed packets are truly free, no strings attached! You don’t need to enter your email, just open the printable and print!

Storing Seeds

I like to organize my seed packets into shoe boxes with cardstock inserts to organize and separate different types of vegetables. Extra seeds that I won’t be using in the next year or two are dried more thoroughly with silica gel and stored in jars in the freezer.

Why use paper envelopes to store your seeds? Seeds need to breathe, so should never be stored in plastic for any length of time. The exception is if your seeds have been brought to an “extra dry” state using silica gel or a dehydrator on low. Extra dry seeds can be stored in an airtight glass jar (we’re not talking canning here, just tighten down the lid securely!). They can even be frozen to last even longer! You can read more about seed storage here!

Seed Envelopes: Free Printable

Ready to store your seeds?

You can find the free seed packet printout here!

Tips:

Add a drop of glue in each bottom corner on the back (inside) of the packet. This will keep small seeds from falling through.
Make sure the glue is completely dry before filling seed envelopes
Double check for any holes in the seed envelopes before adding small seeds!
It’s easier to write on the seed packet before putting any seeds in!

Need more seed saving supplies? Be sure to check out our seed saving supplies resource page, where you can find seed packets to purchase, silica gel, seed cleaning screens, hand pollination supplies and more!

Not a seed saver yet? Check out our article, Why Save Seeds From Your Garden?!

Want to learn more about seed saving? Here are some of our most popular seed saving articles!

How to Save Seeds

Seed Saving: Learn How to Save Seeds from Vegetables!

Seed Saving: How to Save Tomato Seeds

Seed Saving: How to Save Pepper Seeds

Seed Saving: How to Save Bean and Pea Seeds

We also have an online course just for beginner seed savers!

Simple Seed Saving simplifies and condenses seed saving into a format that anyone can learn in as little as an afternoon! If you’ve tried to save seeds and accidentally had different plants cross (pumpkizinni anyone?), or if you saved seeds from too few plants and ended up with small, stunted vegetables the next year, this course is definitely for you! It also goes over the difference between annual and biennial plants, and how to get biennials such as carrots to produce seeds.

You’ll get access to a series of short videos teaching you exactly what you need to know to save seeds. You’ll also get downloadable reference charts for more than 20 garden veggies! It’s really an easy way to get started saving seeds successfully.

You can find out more about the course here!

Just in case you missed it above…you can find the free printable seed saving packets here!

Seed Saving Envelopes: Free Printable