Allium seed heads cut down for drying and seed-saving.
Propagating

Essential guide to seed saving

Saving seed from your garden is an important part of organic growing: it saves money, helps reduce food miles and means what you grow is better suited to your microclimate.

Robin checking 'Beauregard' snow pea crop.
Inspirational gardeners

Saving seeds for our future

Penny Woodward talks with Peter Carlyon and Robin Koster-Carlyon about how they changed their organic farm into a thriving seed-growing enterprise.

Salsify seed will be blown by the wind.
Propagating

How seeds disperse naturally

Once plants start seeding in your garden, you'll be amazed where they pop up – here's how seed distribution happens, naturally.

Seed-sharing station
Organic solutions

Seed savers take a stand

Sharing seeds has never been easier, SIMON WEBSTER reports.