Radish fresh from the garden.
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Save seeds: radish and rocket

Taste the difference when you save the seeds of these two salad favourites.

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

Billy Button seed two weeks after sowing.
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Collecting native seeds

Libby Woodward writes about how to grow plants from native seeds collected in your own garden.

Look for pots that can be planted into the ground with the seedling.
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Seed sowing basics

Growing your own seedlings gives you greater diversity in your garden, as well as contributing to the heirloom seed saving community, writes Helen McKerral.

Salsify seed will be blown by the wind.
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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.

Julie with Painted Lady bean seeds
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Seeds are free

These seeds are available for free, all you have to do is use them to grow food, save those seeds and then share with others.

Taking tip cuttings
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How to grow plants from tip cuttings

Want to add to your plant collection without adding to the costs? Read on for the answer -- and it's easy!

Spade and gloved hand
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Planting seedlings

There are some ways, says Penny Woodward, to ensure that summer planted seedlings stay alive.

Seeder
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Getting intensive

Justin Russell investigates a selection of tools and equipment for ambitious gardeners and aspiring market gardens

Seeds sown in coir pots
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Sowing organic seeds

It's life affirming, says Penny Woodward, to plant seed and watch it grow.

Saving leek seeds
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How to save seeds

As seed company ownership tightens, now's the time to learn how to save your own seed writes Simon Webster.

Raising seeds
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Raising your own seedlings

Justin Russell explains how to raise your own seedlings in a homemade seed-raising mix.