Saving Vegetable Seeds
Harvest, Clean, Store, and Plant Seeds from Your Garden. A Storey BASICS® Title
Author: Fern Marshall Bradley Series: Storey Basics
Grow vegetable favorites year after year with expert tips on choosing, collecting, preparing, and starting seeds from the home garden.
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Grow vegetable favorites year after year with expert tips on choosing, collecting, preparing, and starting seeds from the home garden.
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Save vegetable seeds as you harvest so your favorite plants can grow again next season. In this Storey BASICS guide, Fern Marshall Bradley covers everything you need to know to successfully save seeds from 20 popular garden vegetables, including beans, carrots, peas, peppers, and tomatoes. Learn how each plant is pollinated, where to store your collected seeds through the winter, and how to test their replanting viability in the spring. Now you can grow the delicious varieties you love year after year.
About the Author
Fern Marshall Bradley, author of Building Raised Beds and Saving Vegetable Seeds, is a long-time editor of books about organic gardening, organic farming, and sustainable living. Bradley lives and gardens in Cambridge, New York.
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EXACTLY WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW Become more self-sufficient by saving your own seed from one year to the next. Fern Marshall Bradley clarifies how to select the best plants, make seed saving a part of your garden plan, save both wet and dry seed, overwinter biennial crops like carrots, store seed, and test viability before planting. A crop-by-crop guide explains the details of saving the seeds of beans, carrots, corn, cucumbers, lettuce, melons and watermelons, onions and leeks, peas, peppers, radishes, squash, and tomatoes.
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