Diese Samen sind alle für den Müllcontainer bestimmt. In diesem Jahr schneiden sie auch alle Packs, bevor sie sie einpacken, damit sie (theoretisch) nicht einmal verwendbar sind (sie unterschätzen mich).
Es gibt so viele bessere Verwendungszwecke, auch wenn sie nicht wollten, dass das Personal sie am Ende der Saison einnimmt. Setzen Sie sie bis zum nächsten Jahr in Kühllager. Spenden Sie an Gemeindegärten oder Schulen oder was auch immer. Füttern Sie die verdammten Vögel. Irgendetwas. Aber nein. "Wenn wir sie nicht haben können (oder das Geld von ihnen), kann niemand" 😔
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After seeing so many users complain about seeds not germinating, I see why these are getting tossed.
They cut the bags, wtf name and Shame them Bro.
They took the time to cut the packs???? Wtffffff
Seeds do degrade over time but not significantly for years. You’re right that there’s no reason to trash them for not selling within season instead of donating
I have gotten many free seed packets this way and some that are years past there dates any yes the germination rate is low but I have still lots of success with them
Chaos gardening – toss all the seeds into a bed and see what sprouts.
Some seeds are able to be stored for 10-20 years if stored in optimal settings!
Why not just mark them down? Menards puts theirs at 15 cents per pack at the end of the season. If you store them properly they’ll be fine for next year.
I’d take the bag home even with the loose seeds. It would a surprise on what plants grew. Always remember folks, scarcity is manufactured.
Plants make a lot of seeds ?
There is a discount store near my house that sells the old packs of seeds 5 for 1$. Actually everything in that store seems like it was recovered from the dumpster or fell of a truck, but I love it. Consumer composting 🪱
I buy seeds from Chiltern Seeds. They don’t carry seed from one year to the next. They put it into Bargain Basement packs, such as Mixed Shrubs and Trees or Perennials and sell them really cheap. The packets have a lot of seed in them.
If you are really adventurous you can buy their Bargain Basement Lottery mix. A huge amount of seeds including bulbs, annuals, perennials, shrubs and trees.
It’s fun trying to identify things as they germinate. I have sown a dozen full size seed trays and still have seed left.
I stopped into Home Depot a few weeks ago and was in the gardening section. There were two guys quickly taking the veggies off the shelves and putting them onto large metal carts. I assumed they were moving them to the front entrance. I was looking for tomato and pepper plants. When I asked if I could grab something off their carts, they said it was all being thrown out and going to be turned into compost!
There were perfectly good tomato plants with almost ripe tomatoes, eggplants, peppers, etc — nothing was in that bad of shape. There was a very nice older lady watering plants nearby and she told me I could take whatever I wanted and it would be free. I grabbed a bunch. They are all doing well still. The one tomato plant has been producing a ton of cherry tomatoes and I have watermelon plants growing.
I asked her why they don’t donate to schools, a community garden, or even just say “Free” rather than destroy them, and she said it’s just what they do.
Stores are so wasteful!
Mystery seeds, meet chaos garden.
Throw them in pinches in the dirt somewhere next spring for people to urban forage.
I used to work at Walmart and we would throw so many fruits and vegetables because they slightly didn’t look 100% perfect for clients. Bins and bins full of food that could be donated to food banks. =(
For tax purposes, you gotta dump the merch you failed to sell in order to declare a loss.
Cannot donate, for it’d be a different kind of declaration.
The tax law is what needs to be reformed.
What the fuck? I worked at a greenhouse. All the seed producers would allow donation of seeds at the end of the season. Some of them even gave a small credit to use on next year’s order if we donated the seeds.
Ahhh yes, I forgot no seeds get thrown out under communism.
I worked for a large national chain grocery store that had a bakery in it. We made several loaves in house and brought in more as partial bakes from the warehouse. There is a large homeless community around that store. We would throw away dozens of loaves of bread every night. Their reasoning for doing so was so “homeless people don’t come a get free bread at the end of the night. Or people pretending to be homeless at the end of the night to get free bread”. I even volunteered to drive the waste bread and drop it off at a homeless shelter or food bank and they still wouldn’t let me do it. Wild man, absolutely wild.
That’s not capitalism.
It’s not capitalism it’s more the litigiousness of our society. If Food Corp. has a bunch of produce they can’t sell, but could donate to a food pantry/soup kitchen. Then someone at the shelter and eats it and gets food poisoning. Instead of someone going “Shit happens when you have to beg for food.” A lawyer finds out and gets everyone who is sick and gets them to join a class action lawsuit.” Then they sue the shelter or they go up the chain to get Food Corp.”
Food Corp stops donating the food because their good deed comes back to bite them in the ass.
RIP Main St. Donuts
*Tiny Upside* is that capitalism makes surpluses. The only reason these exists was due to perceived market value of seeds. Now someone [you] can take the surplus goods and make a garden if they reclaim the materials. Without that capitalist ‘perception of value’ this amount of seeds likely would not have been made in the first place.
Wow, I’m so grateful for my local lumber store. Went in for the first time yesterday for an organic pesticide that i couldn’t find anywhere else and was SO PLEASED to see $5.00 “mystery bags,” each one promised to contain 50 packets of vegetable seeds! I opened it as soon as I got to the car: got carrots, radishes, squash, asparagus, some flowers, tomatoes, and more…almost all were organic and about half of them had retail prices of at least $3. Seeing this post cements my decision to be a customer for life!
I once got 3 paper grocery bags FULL of seed packs out of a farm supply dumpster. It was October so I gave away as many as I could to friends and coworkers for the following spring, and stashed a whole big bag of them to donate to the local urban ag nonprofit. They loved it. It’s been 6 years and the seeds are starting to fail but I sure had a good run with them and made a lot of other folks happy.
Thank you Walmart once again for saving us from the unspeakable apocalypse of people trying to grow late season veggies or herbs for free 😰 what a disaster that would’ve been.
I work at a big box home improvement store so I feel your pain. We don’t even have a dumpster anymore. It has to go into the compactor. They would rather crush it than let people dumpster dive. I am constantly rescuing plants from the trash. My husband isn’t very impressed with our indoor jungle but it makes me feel good so he shuts up about it lol.
I used to manage a small hardware store in Georgia. It is the law here that seeds must be sold in the year they are packaged. Some seed companies would send new labels with new dates and testing info for the following year. Others would not. Cutting the packages and tossing is just bad/lazy managers. We always donated what we could not sell. Our local high schools had gardening clubs that always wanted seeds and some community gardens would take them. It’s good PR for the store and doesn’t waste the product.
Not sure you know what capitalism means. But ok.
Damn WTF. They could have donated to a local library or non profit groups. That’s gross
The seeds I can handle compared to the literal LIVE ANIMALS AND FISH that pet stores toss in the dumpsters.