There’s nothing quite like cosying up with a seed catalogue in winter. Full of promise and potential, like seeds themselves, just by leafing through their pages it’s possible to imagine the vegetable patch burgeoning with produce. But what if you didn’t need to buy a whole batch of seeds every year, and instead saved some of your own to replant? By choosing heirloom or heritage seeds, you can do just that and enjoy selecting and growing some more unusual varieties. As well as saving you money in the long run, you could be helping to preserve biodiversity and connecting yourself to a long tradition of gardeners.
Heirloom seeds are, as the name suggests, a link to the veg-growing heritage of a community. That might be the Head Gardeners of Victorian…
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The Simple Things (Digital) - 1 Issue, January 2025