Selling Seeds

It’s good to see that apparently more and more people are buying vegetable seeds, and growing their own veg, particularly in light of rising costs and growing awareness of the environmental impact of various imported fruit and veg.

We’re doing this more and more now that the garden is getting a bit more sorted – so far this year we’ve planted:

• Three rows of potatoes
• Leeks
• Carrots
• Onions
• Bell peppers
• Chilli peppers
• Runner beans
• Peas
• Rhubarb
• Tomatoes
  and
• Parsnips

We’ve still got plans for broccoli/calabrese, courgettes, pumpkins, cauliflower, more leeks and parsnips for over-winter, and a couple more tubs of potatoes as well as gooseberries, blackberries and (probably) strawberries on the fruit side. And even then, as we get more organised next year we’ll do even more.

It’s just good to see people doing more for themselves in this way – I suspect it’s something that’s going to keep on happening. I certainly hope so.