AKG050 - Seed Swaps

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Seed envelopes

There might not be much going on in the garden, but as February approaches the gardening community is gearing up for the events of the year – seed swaps.

If you listened to episode 28 on seed saving then you might have home-saved seed to swap this year, or you may just have some left over from last year!

Seed swaps are a great way to help conserve heirloom and heritage seed varieties. For more about those, listen to Patrick from Bifurcated Carrots in episodes 22, 23 and 24. You can also listen to an episode of BBC Radio 4’s Food Programme in which they visit Brighton’s famous Seedy Sunday. That link also shows some other seed swap events.

If you’re anywhere near Coventry you can check out Garden Organic’s seed swap at their Potato Day in Ryton Organic Gardens. Or you can check out one of the many internet gardening forums that hold seed swaps at this time of year.

If you end up with surplus seeds then you could consider donating them to a local school with a gardening project or to Thrive, the gardening charity that builds and maintains horticultural therapy gardens.

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This time last year, we were talking about garlic.

Posted 21 January 2008, 02:23.  

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