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Baron' as an example, I can buy a packet containing 250 seeds for £1.45, or a pack of about 40 heat-treated sets for £3.99. If they all grew then an onion grown from seed costs less than 1p, while one grown from a set costs 10 times that at 10p.If you

the most before experimenting with others. We eat a lot of fresh salads in our house, so growing these saves us a great deal of money. With a little planning we can be self-sufficient for five months of the year, but I’d love to extend this period further

Last year I had a great crop of chillies. I was so pleased with them that I couldn't bear to throw the plants on the compost heap when they'd finished fruiting. So I saved my favourite two to overwinter indoors as an experiment in chilli endurance

or the variety?).I've been a member of the Heritage Seed Library run by Garden Organic for many years, and fully endorse the value and ethos of saving varieties from extinction. After all, you never know when the genetic material they contain could be of value

like beetroot, seed. Again, the plant will focus its energy on seed production at the expense of the leaf, or root you are growing it for. Remove flowers as soon as you see them, water well. Moving the pot to a shadier spot can also help (sun can stress

worthwhile. A short row of raspberries just 1.2m long has produced several pickings, used to add tasty home-grown vitamins to my morning bowl of cereal. Blackberries are now taking over, and I'd thoroughly recommend thornless varieties to give regular