Update: Please have a look at the Seed Network page.
In part as a response to my last post a number of other bloggers are now offering seeds or other plant materials from their own garden.
Here’s a list of the ones I’m aware of:
Ewa in the Garden
Spade Work
Mas Du Diable
Alternative Kitchen Garden Podcast or Fluffius Muppetus
MustardPlaster
Lusthof (Garden of Eden)
A Thinking Stomach (*new*)
The Veggie Patch Re-imagined (*new*)
The Cats Tripe (*new*)
Soilman (Leeks, trumpet lily hybrids and pure regale species) (*new*)
CityGarden (*new*)
I’m aware there are some others offering purchased seeds, or a combination of self saved and purchased, but for the purposes of this post I’m only mentioning people who are offering primarily seed saved from their own gardens.
If you know of anyone else, please mention it in a comment below!
While I don’t have a formal seed list right now, I do have a little bit of garlic planting stock left, and in a few months I hope to also offer Andean tubers. Feel free to contact me if you are interested. I also have some White Alpine Strawberry Seeds. Beyond these things, if you ever see a post about something growing in my garden, feel free to ask me for seeds and we’ll see what we can work out. In general, if I can just put a few seeds in a letter and send it, you don’t need to pay anything. Otherwise, I expect you to reimburse me for postage and packaging, and I have ways of accepting payment in most common currencies.
In general everyone listed above has their own rules for payment and where they will send plant materials. The one thing we all have in common is we are not expensive, and we are all interested in seeing our seeds used, and hopefully saved, by other people.
Seeds for Everyone
It’s important to make very clear here, these seeds are for everyone! These are not seeds reserved for people with a blog, or any kind of special experienced plant geek or member of an elite club. These are seeds for anyone who wants to grow them. While most of them are listed in the context of seed swaps, generally anything is considered for something in exchange, even money. Don’t be afraid to contact any of us, even if you don’t think you have anything to offer in return.
If you really don’t have any money or are on benefits, almost certainly something can be worked out to get you something for free, but please keep your expectations a little tempered because none of us are a charity and we don’t have unlimited money to send away free things.
Saving your own seeds and sharing them with others is an important way of promoting biodiversity, as well as a nice social things to do. If you’re interested in getting started with this, don’t be afraid to get some seeds from these sources and use them as a place to begin!
Join In!
If you save seeds from your own garden, consider sharing them with others. Of course there are many ways of doing it, with or without a blog. For example seed exchanges or just informal swaps with friends. If you have a blog and want to offer something, I would be happy to mention you here. If you don’t have a blog, but want help offering what you have over the Internet, get in touch and I’ll see what I can do.
