The Heritage Seed Library
The Heritage Seed Library • 1970s Vegetable Seeds Directive • National List & EU Common Catalogue • Varieties became unavailable
The Heritage Seed Library What we collect: Open pollinated varieties – no F1s • Heritage • Heirloom • Ex Commercial •
The Heritage Seed Library How we do it: 800 varieties … and growing! • 50% grown on site • Seed Guardians • Catalogue membership •
Growing seed at HSL
Seed production
Seed production
Trials & assessment
Seed cleaning
Drying & storing
Distribution
Stories Pea Mr Bound’s Bean Pea Pea Tutankhamun Climbing French bean Brighstone Bean
Norwegian variety Imur Prior Beta Indeterminate. Cordon. Selected from high altitude areas in the Chilean mountains and developed in Norway for growing in cooler regions. Also thought to be blight resistant. The juicy, red fruits have soft, smooth flesh and are slightly acidic in flavour.
Seed Swaps
Building HSL presence Durham Botanic Gardens Dumfries House Ordsall Hall River Garden Growing Trafford's Roots World of Beatrix Potter NT Clumber Park Aberglasney Gardens NT Shugborough Walled Garden Bishop's Park NT Hidcote Manor Gdns Highgrove Gardens St Fagan's Le Manoir NT Knightshayes Court Hampton Court Palace Lost Gardens of Heligan NT Polesden Lacey
Working with communities Tomato Clibran's Victory (Altrincham) Broad Bean George Potts (Manchester) Carrot Altringham (Altrincham) Pea Timperley Wonder (Trafford)
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