My eye will certainly be caught by anything that says “heritage”. I feel I’m getting something true, original and needing me to help preserve it. It’s almost as if buying heritage seeds puts you in a special club.
BUT – Charles is absolutely right – unless you trial a heritage variety alongside a modern one you’ll never know which is best for your beds, your climate and your own taste-buds.
HOWEVER – to a certain extent growing things simply for the sake of it is part of the joy and inquisitiveness of gardening.
Richard