{"id":5305,"date":"2009-11-14T03:17:10","date_gmt":"2009-11-14T10:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5305"},"modified":"2011-10-17T05:31:54","modified_gmt":"2011-10-17T12:31:54","slug":"heritage-seeds-and-varieties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/heritage-seeds-and-varieties\/","title":{"rendered":"Heritage Seeds and Varieties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Lettuce -  Bijou &amp; Freckles by brianpettinger, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/3786180056\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Heritage Lettuce Bijou and Freckles\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2464\/3786180056_6e0d9d508a.jpg\" alt=\"Lettuce -  Bijou &amp; Freckles\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Radishes not tasting like they use too?\u00c2\u00a0 Blemish free supermarket crops without taste or aroma?\u00c2\u00a0 A bland selection of seeds from your nurseryman to grow the same varieties as your neighbour? Well there is a movement to bring back and promote the old varieties that would change all that.<strong> Heritage varieties<\/strong> are an imposing collection of ancient vegetable and other varieties saved and collected by specialist companies to tempt our taste buds and maintain our heritage plants.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some\u00c2\u00a0 UK seed supplier links together with many other international seedsmen offering specialist heritage and heirloom varieties.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> <a title=\"Blogger Seed Network\" href=\"http:\/\/www.patnsteph.net\/weblog\/?page_id=65\">Blogger Seed Network<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thomasetty.co.uk\/\">Thomas\u00c2\u00a0 Etty<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"\u00e2\u20ac\u0153For the Liberation of Seed and Soil\u00e2\u20ac\u009d\" href=\"http:\/\/www.terredesemences.com\/\">Association Kokopelli        (UK\/France)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.realseeds.co.uk\/\">Real Seeds<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"UK Based Heritage Seed Collection\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gardenorganic.org.uk\/hsl\/index.php\">Heritage Seed Library (UK)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vidaverde.co.uk\/\">Real Vegetable Seeds (UK)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.heritageseeds.co.uk\/\">Heritage Wildflower Seeds<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seedfest.co.uk\/\">Heirloom Seeds<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bountifulgardens.org\/\">Bountiful Gardens (US)<\/a><!--more--><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rareseeds.com\/\">Baker Creek Seeds (US)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Belgian Heirloom Seed Breeders\" href=\"http:\/\/www.denieuwetuin.be\/\">de        Nieuwe Tuin (Dutch Language)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.saltspringseeds.com\/\">Salt Spring Seeds (Canada)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Heirloom Plants and Antique Poultry (US)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sandhillpreservation.com\/\">Sand Hill Preservation        Center<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Seeds Trust\/High Altitude Gardens\" href=\"http:\/\/www.seedstrust.com\/\">Seeds Trust<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.synergyseeds.com\/\">Synergy Seeds (US)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Garlic Planting Stock\" href=\"http:\/\/thegarlicstore.com\/\">The        Garlic Store (US)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"The Victory Seed Company\" href=\"http:\/\/www.victoryseeds.com\/\">The        Victory Seed Company (US)<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Heirloomseedsmen<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Keep traditional plants and biodiversity by sharing your knowledge, keeping in touch with these heritage organisations and above all growing great crops.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Radishes not tasting like they use too?\u00c2\u00a0 Blemish free supermarket crops without taste or aroma?\u00c2\u00a0 A bland selection of seeds from your nurseryman to grow the same varieties as your neighbour? Well there is a movement to bring back and promote the old varieties that would change all that. Heritage varieties are an imposing collection of ancient vegetable and other varieties saved and collected by specialist companies to tempt our taste buds and maintain our heritage plants. Here are some\u00c2\u00a0&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/heritage-seeds-and-varieties\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,18],"tags":[203,204,34],"class_list":["post-5305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flowers","category-vegetables-herbs","tag-heirloom","tag-heritage","tag-seeds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}