With the seed swap I help at each year in Hereford, my talks, where I give packets of seeds rather than a business card and the items I sell, that each have a free packet of seeds with them, I end up giving away a few thousand packets of seeds each year.
This is such a big thing for me that I have to plan the garden accordingly. I want plenty of seeds and of things people want. for me the ones that seem most popular are the packets of tomato seeds. You only need a few in each packet so it works out really well for me, and I love growing new varieties each year to give away.
The one above is called "sunshine Bumblebee" and is lovely, gorgeous colouring, thin skin and really tasty.
With the seeds I give away I try to be as professional as possible with them. I ferment my tomato seeds in water for three days before cleaning them off and leaving them out to dry fully for a few weeks.
On the windowsill, as I type this, I have three types fermenting, Goldrama, Primabella and Glacier. I look forward to storing them and then getting them into seed packets later in the year. Hopefully I'll do some cucumbers as well.
What free seed would you like with a product?
How do you keep your tomatoes from cross pollinating?
ReplyDeleteGood question. So Tomatoes generally won't cross pollinate if the flowers are of a closed sort (most indeterminate ones are like this). If I have any that have open flowers then I isolate them in a separate greenhouse.
DeleteI'm not too particular with receiving seeds and will plant just about anything. But I don't save too many seeds myself because of cross pollination problems and lack of time.
ReplyDeleteTomatoes are pretty good for seed saving as not many will cross easily. I did do some proper seed saving the other day with my courgettes, tying up flowers and everything!
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