Seed to Seed: Seed Saving and Growing Techniques for Vegetable Gardeners, 2nd Edition
Description
Seed to Seed is a complete seed-saving guide that describes specific
techniques for saving the seeds of 160 different vegetables. This book
contains detailed information about each vegetable, including its botanical
classification, flower structure and means of pollination, required population
size, isolation distance, techniques for caging or hand-pollination, and also
the proper methods for harvesting, drying, cleaning, and storing the
seeds.Seed to Seed is widely acknowledged as the best guide available for home
gardeners to learn effective ways to produce and store seeds on a small scale.
The author has grown seed crops of every vegetable featured in the book, and
has thoroughly researched and tested all of the techniques she recommends for
the home garden.This newly updated and greatly expanded Second Edition
includes additional information about how to start each vegetable from seed,
which has turned the book into a complete growing guide. Local knowledge about
seed starting techniques for each vegetable has been shared by expert
gardeners from seven regions of the United States-Northeast, Mid-Atlantic,
Southeast/Gulf Coast, Midwest, Southwest, Central West Coast, and Northwest.
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Features:
Product Details:
- Publisher : Seed Savers Exchange; 2nd edition (March 1, 2002)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 228 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1882424581
- ISBN-13 : 80
- Item Weight : 1 pounds
- Dimensions : 8.5 x 0.5 x 11 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #17,932 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #14 in Gardening & Horticulture Reference (Books) #19 in Vegetable Gardening #25 in Gardening Encyclopedias
- #14 in Gardening & Horticulture Reference (Books)
- #19 in Vegetable Gardening