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I’m kicking myself for not making the effort to go to
Seedy Sunday in Hove last weekend. It was the thought
of a long journey on a wet and dreary February day
but I know that it would have been worth the effort.
Apart from the seed swap tables where you either swap seeds
as the name suggests, or buy interesting home harvested seeds,
many of them English heritage varieties, and most with a
local provenance, there were over fifty stalls selling everything
seedy. Oh, and as an added bonus, the garden experts from
Gardeners’ Question Time were there to share their expertise
and, by the sound of it, do their own bit of seed shopping.
I liked James Wong’s idea of buying up vegetable seed packets
which are out of date and growing the seeds on as micro
greens – cropping them when they are still tiny. However, I
suspect that most retailers whisk these packets off the shelves
pretty promptly and replace them with the new season’s seeds.
But what happens to all those perfectly viable seeds
that are presumably returned? I don’t know about you
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Above: Keen seed swappers and hunters at Brighton’s Seedy
Sunday, the longest running seed swap in Britain
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