[Nige2Plots]

Does anyone participate in Garden Organic's Heritage seed project? I had a conversation with a lady who asked if I knew of this project and to to my shame I had to say No!
What does it entail?

[DD.]

Your best bet is to look at this:

http://www.gardenorganic.org.uk/hsl/hsl.php

It will cost you £20 a year, or £15 if you join Garden Organic for £28 at the same time.

I'm a member and as such I can select 6 varieties from their seed catalogue each year. (They cannot sell them).

Due to illness last year, I did not get around to doing last year's seeds, so I've 6 types of pea and 6 types of tomato to grow this year. You don't get many of each variety, not a problem with tomatoes so much, but with 10 pea seed you need to crop and save them all really for next year.

[DD.]

One other aspect to mention is Seed Guardians.

These agree to take on seed and grow them on purely for saving. You send most of them back, but can retain some for yourself. You don't have to member.

http://www.gardenorganic.org.uk/hsl/guardians.php