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.


4 Comments on “Selling Seeds”

  1. Blue Witch says:

    It’s no coincidence that the price of seeds and everything related have gone up exponentially in the last couple of years. Greater scale should = cheaper prices, but, oh no. Sometimes it’s been done on the sly – same price per packet, one tenth of the seeds in it.

    The current situation is only something coming full circle of course. The penny is dropping for lots of people. No pun intended.

  2. farmer_dave says:

    i used to enjoy growing veg myself my favs were pod peas and corn on the cob, when i get a garden big enough ill start growing my own veg once again

  3. Gert says:

    I remember people used to do that in the 70s. Then the disposable consumer society took over and it was considered untrendy and sad. Jimmy has tried it here, but the garden is so small it’s not feasible. And I know quite a lot of large gardens which are dominated by hard standing or decking and water features it won’t happen

  4. Lyle says:

    I blame Ground Force for that one, Gert. So many people started to look at gardens as something to structure/decorate, rather than as anything functional (i.e. personal green space, or growing area etc.) that it became de rigeur for decking, hard-standing etc. to replace grass.

    Bizarre, but true.


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