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[Fredd]

just remember to restrict saplings as traffic areas, and gather edible plants that sprout up in them. Will allow room for more trees to sprout

[Jurph]

I haven't heard about any seeds limits. You mean i can only farm 200 seeds at the same moment and no more?

Any seeds over 200 are either discarded or not accounted for, apparently. I've a fortress going on for ~six years, and my plump helmet and wild strawberry seed count is stuck at 200 whenever I bother to go look at the kitchen.

This is correct, but I'd like to clarify that it's 200 seeds per plant species.  At five seeds per bag, and ten bags per barrel, you'll need at least four tiles of seed stockpile for each crop that your fortress cultivates in a sustainable manner... but you'll only need one seed barrel to completely seed two 5x5 fields, or one 5x5 field in back-to-back seasonal rotations.  Placing your main seed stockpile near the kitchens and mills (3 tiles per species) and an alternative seed pile near the farms (1 tile per species) and using take-from orders can keep your farms running smoothly.

[Sarudak]

Where'd you get 5 seeds per bag? As far as I know each bag can hold an infinite number of seeds. I've never seen more than one bag of the same seed type.

[Jurph]

I am probably misremembering the 5 seeds per bag from either an old version or just my faulty memory.  It's been a long time since I actually used dense bags for seeds.  I saw a reference on the wiki to 100 seeds per bag, but again, I've never counted.  It sounds like it's time for !!SCIENCE!!.

[Ves]

Bags hold something like 150 seeds each, I think.

[Fellhuhn]

Hm, Crop Rotation Benefits aren't in yet, are they?

[JmzLost]

Nope.  The only things in farming are mud for underground plots and increased yield from fertilizing with potash.  But the yields are already so ridiculous that it's not worth the effort to make the potash.  Just make the field twice as big, and maybe add another farmer.  They train up quick on plump helmets and prickle berries, especially if you have "only farmers harvest" set.

JMZ

[Jurph]

Hm, Crop Rotation Benefits aren't in yet, are they?

I don't think so, but because it's so trivial to set up rotations already, there's no reason not to -- for underground farms the only year-round crop is plump helmet, and who wants a fort full of those?  I generally end up doing a field of "bag crops" and a field of "barrel crops", with each field getting harvested to a different processing area.  If you rotate your bag crops sensibly you can have cloth, flour, and dye production running year-round.

Bag Crops - Pig Tails become bags, everything else becomes a bagged food (flour or leaves) or dye

• Quarry Bush
• Cave Wheat
• Pig Tail (or Cave Wheat)
• Dimple Cups

Barrel Crops - process into syrup or booze

• Sweet Pod
• Sweet Pod
• Plump Helmet (or Pig Tail)
• Plump Helmet

Surface Farm Bag Crops - process into cloth for bags, or flour or dye

• Rope Reed (two seasons out of phase with Pig Tail production)
• Blade Weed or Sliver Barb (two seasons out of phase with Dimple Cups)
• Whip Vine
• Longland Grass

If you use the manager to queue the same number of milling, weaving, and dyeing jobs each season, then you can queue booze jobs in the off-season to take advantage of any overage. 

• Spring - Queue up Mill Plant jobs to grind Longland Grass to flour and Dimple Cups to dye.  Ensure that your dimple cups are closer to the mill than your Longland Grass, and set your job queue to 75% - 80% of the total winter harvest.  Queue up Make Cloth Bag to turn Pig Tails into spare bags.
• Summer - queue Process Plant jobs to turn Rope Reed to thread, and Process Plant to Bag jobs for the QBLs.  Set the first to 90% of your harvest and the second to 100% of harvest.
• Fall - queue Make Cloth Bag jobs, Prepare Lavish Meal jobs, and Mill Plants jobs.
• Winter - Process Plant (for Pig Tails) and Mill Plant (for dyes).  Queue up Brew Drink (30) several times or just put a repeating job in your still in order to use up the year's overage.

Each season you're either making bags, filling bags, or both. 

...yes, I maybe answered a little more than you asked. 

[Quietust]

Bags hold something like 150 seeds each, I think.

A single bag can hold up to 100 seeds, but it can only hold seeds for one plant type (i.e. if you have 101 plump helmet spawn and 50 pig tail seeds, you will need 3 bags). This has always been true, even back to the old 2D versions.