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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.
List of contents
Introduction
Chapter 1: Getting Started with Saving Seeds
What Is a Seed? – Are All Seeds Worth Saving? – It’s in
the Genes – Simple Seed Saving – Coaxing Seeds from
Leaf and Root Crops
Chapter 2: Seed-Saving Techniques
Growing Great Seeds – Overwintering Biennial Crops –
Harvesting Seeds – Cleaning and Drying Seeds –
Storing Seeds – Testing Seed Viability
Chapter 3: Saving Seeds, Crop by Crop
Beans – Carrots – Corn – Cucumbers – Lettuce – Melons and
Watermelons – Onions and Leeks – Peas – Peppers – Radishes –
Squash – Tomatoes
Resources
Index
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.
Summary
Grow vegetable favorites year after year with expert tips on choosing, collecting, preparing, and starting seeds from the home garden.
Foreword
Grow vegetable favorites year after year with expert tips on choosing, collecting, preparing, and starting seeds from the home garden.
