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Get it between 2024-12-31 to 2025-01-07. Additional 3 business days for provincial shipping.
Techniques for growing, harvesting, drying and storing the seeds of 160 vegetables.
Detailed information on each including pollination methods, isolation distance and proper care.
Organized by family, genus and species.
Includes handy index of common names, plus information on heirloom varieties and seed saving organizations.
Ashworth 8-1/2" x 11" 228 pages
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.