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Hi Christine,
If your onion sets are stored in a dry and cool’ish environment, they are good to go for the spring. I haven’t any experience in storing onion sets for more then one season. Regarding your seeds, the germination frequence will always drop over time, and it’s not that it will drop to 0% in one year if stored at room temperature. I’m not and expert, but i think low humidity is more important then temperature. As Charles shows in his videos, broad sowing and subsequent pricking of the seedlings into plugg cells is a very good idea in any case. It’s a very space saving and efficient way of raising plants. I think there are exception like beans and peas, which i don’t think is suitable for pricking. However, Charles are showing us that so many ‘old teachings’ and dogmas just doesn’t hold true or doesn’t apply to no-dig gardening, so he may have another opinion 🙂
regards
Erik