Saving your own seeds saves you money, helps you continue to grow important or favourite varieties, preserves links with the past and means you can share your seeds with others. But more importantly,

NATURAL SEED HARVESTING

Chris Collins shares tips for saving seeds from this year’s tomato glut

In September the garden is brimming with seeds – poppies, eryngiums, geraniums, lunarias, sanguisorbas, salvias, corydalis, sanguisorbas, gillenias and most of the grasses. Everything is there, just w

They might not be especially striking to look at–if you can see them at all–but seeds are among the natural world’s most awe-inspiring marvels, says John Lewis-Stempel

KITCHEN GARDENER