A RARE pea last grown in Bolton has been saved from the brink of extinction.
Table-Talk, as it is known, was one of 800 vegetables highlighted by the Garden Organic as having been brought back from the verge of extinction.
The pea was originally donated to the Heritage Seed Library (HSL), which is run by Garden Organic, by a Mr Schofield of Bolton, who had been growing it since 1940. Apparently he had obtained it from a relative in Yorkshire.
According to Garden Organic, hundreds of traditional vegetable varieties like Table-Talk are facing being wiped out through commercial pressures and European Union (EU) regulations, which ban the sale of seeds unless the variety is registered on a national or EU list.
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