Yesterday I went through ALL of my winter crops seeds and dumped all the partial old packets (some dating to 2005) of various brassicas into a drinking glass, mixed them thoroughly, and today will choose a place or two to scatter half of them 6 weeks earlier than I would normally sow brassica crops. IF any of these old seeds are viable and germinate, it will be interesting to see how they do in the humid heat. Regardless, I will sow the other half somewhere else sometime in the second half of October. Live and learn!