Seed to Seed: Seed Saving and Growing Techniques for Vegetable Gardeners
Suzanne AshworthSeed 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.
status | Copy #1 (6242): in |
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genre | Utopian Studies » Gardening |
publisher | Seed Savers Exchange, Inc. |
publish date | 2002 |
popularity | checked out 0 time(s) |