I usually buy my seeds from the The Organic Gardening Catalogue. This year I decided to try some of the seeds from the Heritage Seed Library.(http://www.gardenorganic.org.uk/hsl/index.php)
The Seed Library aims to conserve and make available varities of vegetables that are no longer widely available. The seeds are grown and collected by volunteers and are only available to members of Gardening organic.
Many of the varieties have wonderful names such as a pea called "Gravedigger" or "Irish Preans" which give clues to their history. Others have more unlikely stories attached such as the pea "Tutankhamun". The story goes that it came from the garden of Lord Carnarvon and may have been one of the peas allegedly taken from the tomb in Egypt. I'll bet the Head Gardener enjoyed spreading that tale.
Today I planted two heritage seed tomatoes - Estonian Yellow Mini Cherry and Cyril's Choice (who was Cyril, I wonder?) and also a crimson Flowered Broad Bean because I liked the colour.
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