Saving Vegetable Seeds: Harvest, Clean, Store, and Plant Seeds from Your Garden. A Storey BASICS Title [Paperback]

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.

Fern Marshall Bradley, author ofBuilding Raised BedsandSaving 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.

Introduction

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Chapter 1:Getting Started with Saving Seeds

??????????????? What Is a Seed?  Are All Seeds Worth Saving?  Its in

??????????????? the Genes  Simple Seed Saving  Coaxing Seeds from

??????????????? Leaf and Root Crops

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Chapter 2:Seed-Saving Techniques

??????????????? Growing Great Seeds  Overwintering Biennial Crops 

??????????????? Harvesting Seeds  Cleaning and Drying Seeds 

??????????????? Storing Seeds  Testing Seed Viability

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Chapter 3:Saving Seeds, Crop by Crop

??????????????? Beans  Carrots  Corn  Cucumbers  Lettuce  Melons and

??????????????? Watermelons  Onions and Leeks  Peas  Peppers  Radishes 

??????????????? Squash  Tomatoes

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Resources

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Index

EXACTLY WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW

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