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Saving Seeds: The Gardener's Guide to Growing and Saving Vegetable and Flower Seeds
192Overview
Enjoy a delicious bounty of heirloom vegetables every year. Marc Rogers guides you through the time-honored and cost-effective tradition of collecting seeds from this year’s harvest to grow next year’s crop. Learn how to select and store seeds from proven varieties of more than 100 common vegetables and flowers. Through saving seeds and growing heirloom plants you’ll not only have a thriving garden every summer, you’ll be saving money and preserving local flavors at the same time.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780882666341 |
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Publisher: | Storey Books |
Publication date: | 01/03/1991 |
Series: | Down to Earth Gardening Book Series |
Edition description: | REVISED |
Pages: | 192 |
Sales rank: | 392,456 |
Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 9.06(h) x 0.50(d) |
About the Author
Marc Rogers has written the popular and useful Saving Seeds.
Table of Contents
Part I: Basic InformationChapter 1 Why Raise Seeds?
Chapter 2 What Is a Seed?
Chapter 3 How Seeds Are Formed
Chapter 4 Annuals, Biennials, and Perennials
Chapter 5 Pollination
Chapter 6 Selecting Seed Parents
Chapter 7 Collecting Seeds
Chapter 8 Extracting and Drying Seeds
Chapter 9 Storing Seeds
Chapter 10 Testing Seeds
Part II: The Vegetables
Table I: Characteristics of Common Vegetables Saved for Seed
Monocotyledoneae
Poaceae (Grass Family)
Liliaceae (Lily Family)
Dicotyledoneae
Polygonaceae (Buckwheat or Rhubarb Family)
Chenopodiaceae (Goosefoot Family)
Tetragoniaceae (New Zealand Spinach Family)
Brassicaceae (Mustard or Cabbage Family)
Fabaceae (Bean Family)
Malvaceae (Mallow Family)
Apiaceae (Celery Family)
Solanaceae (Nightshade Family)
Cucurbitaceae (Gourd or Cucumber Family)
Asteraceae (Aster Family)
Table II: A Checklist of Some Seed-Borne Vegetable Diseases
Part III: The Flowers
The Best Flowering Ornamentals to Save for Seed
Mail Order Seed Sources
Further Reading
Glossary for Gardeners
Average Frost Date Maps