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Opportunity to grow rare tomatoes

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March 20, 2011 by admin Leave a Comment

Rare tomatoes from a Garden Organic collection of endangered vegetables and fruit will be made available for gardeners this spring thanks to a new …
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Filed Under: News Tagged With: Accessions, Charity, Currant, Family Heirlooms, Gardeners, Gems, Heritage Seed Library, Hq, Mail Order, Neil Munro, Nurseries, Peat, Plug Plants, Ryton Gardens, Seed Catalogues, Tomato Plants, Tomato Varieties, Tomatoes, Vegetables, Yellow Tomato


Government reviews heirloom varieties

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September 26, 2010 by admin Leave a Comment

Heirloom fruit and vegetable cultivars could be making a comeback into seed catalogues. The government are planning to simplify the process of …
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Filed Under: News Tagged With: 29th October, Amateur Gardeners, Consultation, European Commission, Fruit And Vegetable, Genetic Variation, Government Reviews, Heirloom Varieties, Heritage Seed Library, Proposals, Seed Catalogues, Seed Swaps, Vegetable Cultivars, Vegetable Seeds


Organisations

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August 10, 2010 by admin Leave a Comment

Rare Breed Organisations Herdwick Sheep Breeders Association Focusing on all aspects of breeding and raising Herdwick sheep Rare Breeds Survival …
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Filed Under: Organisations Tagged With: Flowers, Herdwick Sheep, Heritage Organisations, Heritage Seed Library, Heritage Varieties, Livestock Breeds, Plant Heritage, Plants And Gardens, Rare Breed, Rare Breeds Survival Trust, Sheep Breeders, Vegetables


Seed search in Wales

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July 18, 2010 by admin Leave a Comment
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Vegetable gardeners in Wales are being urged to preserve their heirloom varieties and make them more widely available. The Dyfi Valley Seed Savers …
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Filed Under: Featured, Vegetables Tagged With: Allotment, Appearance Characteristics, Blight, Coventry, Dyfi Valley, Email, Garden Vegetable, Heirloom Varieties, Heritage Seed Library, Rural Development Agency, Salads, Seed Savers, Seed Search, Seed Swaps, Seeds, Sustainable Future, Vegetable Gardeners, Vegetable Growers, Vegetable Varieties, Vegetables, Welsh


Carlin Peas

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April 5, 2010 by admin Leave a Comment
Heritage Seed Library Carlin Seeds

The Carlin pea is a traditional drying pea which seems to date way back in the English medieval monasteries and was certainly used in Elizabethan …
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Filed Under: Vegetables Tagged With: Caption, Carlin Peas, Civil War, Elizabethan Times, Exchange Websites, Heritage Seed Library, Heritage Seeds, Heritage Varieties, Lilac Flowers, Maple Peas, Medieval Monasteries, North East Of England, Passion Sunday, Plants, Seed Exchange, Starvation, Sun, Sweet Peas, Variety


New Garden Organic Seed Project

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February 22, 2010 by admin Leave a Comment
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The latest initiative from Garden organic, "Sowing New Seeds", funded by the Big Lottery Local Food Fund, will directly enable many more gardeners in …
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Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Black Eye Beans, Crop Cultivation, Diverse Communities, Eating Habits, Edible Plants, Future Generations, Genetic Diversity, Hamburg Parsley, Heritage Seed Library, Latin America, Local Food, Maize, Organic Seed, Seed Project, Seeds Project, Traditional Crops, Uk Share, Vital Fact, Warwickshire, Water Chestnuts


Heritage Seeds

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November 4, 2008 by admin Leave a Comment
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A recent article by Garden Organic focuses on heritage seed and the need to preserve our gardening heritage. In 1973 the Seed (National List of …
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Filed Under: Fruit & Veg Tagged With: Brink, Climate Varieties, Crops, Different Times, Extinction, First Response, Gardeners, Gluts, Growing Library, Herbs, Heritage Seed Library, Heritage Seeds, Heritage Varieties, Human Nature, Kokopelli, Recent Article, Seed Producers, Small Quantities, Textures, Traditional Distribution Methods, Veg


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