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UK seed swaps 2023 for 2024

 
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I've pretty well finished sorting out my saved seeds, so am listing them here - offering for swaps or pass-it-forwards favours.

seed swap saving
my fava bean grex spread out to dry


These were all gathered by me either from wild plants or my plants grown here on Skye.

Pea seeds - mixture of varieties, first generation 'grex' grown in close proximity. Various colour flowers, pods, growing styles and sizes!

Fava beans - ditto! includes both broad beans and field beans.

Oats (Avena strigosa and Avena sativa) - mixture of varieties, first generation 'grex  grown in close proximity. Note some plants had black smut, so these seeds may be carriers.

Carrot - mixture of varieties. first generation 'grex  grown in close proximity - as many colours as I could find, so white, purple, red, green as well as orange. No F1 plants, so hopefully no male sterility.

Pignut (Conopodium majus) - Skye native

Turkish Rocket (Bunias Orientalis) - Perennial vegetable

Sweet Cicely (Myhrris odorata)

Nine star perennial broccoli - short lived berennial brassica with white 'sprouting broccoli' flowers

Bush vetch (Vicia sepium) - Skye native, nitrogen fixing flowering plant with pea flavoured shoot tips.

Yellow rattle (Rhinanthus minor) - Skye native, plant parasitic on grasses.

Sea cabbage/wild cabbage (brassica oleracea) - from which all cabbages are descended. short lived perennial

Bluebell (hyacinthoides non scripta) - Skye native wildflower

Good King Henry - perennial vegetable

Aronia melanocarpa - good fruit, precocious

Chiccory - tall blue flowered

Melancholy thistle (Circium heterophyllum)  - Skye native wildflower

Alpine strawberry - non running form

Heath pea (Lathyrus linifolius) - Skye native wildflower

Caucasian spinach (Hablitzia tamnoides) - Climbing perennial vegetable

Skirret (sium sisarum) - perennial vegetable.

Marsh woundwort (Stachys palustris) - Skye native wildflower, perennial vegetable

Salsify (tragopogon porrifolius) - biennial root vegetable

birds' foot trefoil (Lotus corniculatus) -  Skye native wildflower

I’ll also have some True Potato Seed (TPS) – a mixture from ‘pink fir apple’ and ‘Skye Blue’ potatoes, both maincrop varieties, but I haven’t extracted the seed yet. I could just post out some berries I suppose?


Wanted:
Seeds for my landraces – carrot, parsnip, swede, salsify, leek, peas, fava beans, bere barley, & black oats. Any varieties (not F1 hybrids please)

Other seeds:
Asparagus, Globe artichoke, Cardoon, Scorzonera, Bistort

Or go on - tempt me with interesting and edible perennials!

pm me or add to this thread with your own UK seed offerings!

Edited to add - unfortunately we now can't import any seeds to the UK without sanitory certificates, although I will post them abroad at your risk
 
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Greetings folks! I'm looking for heirloom crops from British settlers in America from the mid 1700s. I'm growing a Native American and early settler garden in Chicago this year and I'm looking for the right ones to restore my community's past. Please let me know if you have any sources. Take care!
 
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