Vegetable gardeners in Wales are being urged to preserve their heirloom varieties and make them more widely available.
The Dyfi Valley Seed Savers in Wales are looking to allotment and garden vegetable growers, to help trace all the home grown Welsh vegetable varieties they can find. They are especially interested in tomatoes resistant to blight, rocket that is slow to bolt and strong growing winter salads.
Many varieties have been handed down through the generations and are not available on the open market. These seeds are invaluable to local growers as they have adapted over the years to the climate and soil of the region.
Funding from a rural development agency has been granted to Dyfi Valley Seed Savers, to trial the vegetables they find at 10 selected sites throughout Powys.
Seeds discovered through the scheme will be redistributed through local seed swaps and also through the Heritage Seed Library run by Garden Organic in Coventry.
If you think you have something they might be interested in, The Dyfi Valley Seed Savers would love to hear from you.
Please get in touch with any information about the vegetable’s history, growing, taste and appearance characteristics, or contact them for more information by e.mailing; Claire@dyfivalleyseedsavers.org.uk
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