“We love the wildness seed saving brings to the gardens - the towering plants which often look different to the vegetables and herbs we eat and the hum of pollinators that come to enjoy their flowers.”
Online seed store coming soon…..
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Orange carrots although you may get a few different colours too
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A delish parsnip that grows rather large crossed from a few varieties over many years in our gardens
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Mix of different shaped and coloured radishes
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Climbs to about 1m and produces lots of tasty green peas to be shelled and eaten raw or cooked
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A perpetual spinach that if you keep cutting off seed heads with produce leaves all season long
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A delightful mix of shades from buttery yellow to bright orange
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Mostly yellow branching sunflowers although you might get some surprise colours too
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A mix of poppies from large fluffy peony poppies in a range of colours to the Flanders poppy
We always try to leave one of each thing we grow set seed - some to harvest and share, while the rest are left to soar on the wind, popping up in our patch where ever the wind takes them.
Seed by Festival Farm began as a way for our son Gully to make some pocket money and has grown into a boutique seed growing business.
Our seeds are collected by hand in Festival Farm gardens or by our families, then processed and germination tested. These are mostly unnamed varieties of vegetables, herbs and flowers that we love to grow.
In the beginning we saved seeds for ourselves so names were not important. If things grew well and tasted delicious or looked beautiful (sometimes both) we saved the seed.
