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How home gardeners with limited time and garden space can reclaim the joy and independence of seed saving

Beginning Seed Saving for the Home Gardener explores how seed saving is not only easier than we think, but that it is essential for vibrant, independent, and bountiful gardens.

Many home gardeners refuse to eat a grocery store tomato, but routinely obtain seeds commercially, sometimes from thousands of miles away. And while seed saving can appear mysterious and intimidating, even home gardeners with limited time and space can experience the joy and independence it brings, freeing them from industry and the annual commercial seed order.

Coverage includes:

  • Why seed saving belongs in the home garden
  • Principles of vegetative and sexual reproduction
  • Easy inbreeding plants, including legumes, lettuce, tomatoes, and peppers
  • Plants with a few more challenges, including squash, spinach, onions

    Table of Contents

    Acknowledgments

    Part I: Seed Saving Belongs in the Home Garden
    A. Where Have All the Seed-Savers Gone?
    B. How This Book is Different
    C. How to Read This Book
    D. Why Should We Save Seed

    Part II: Saving Seed: What We Need to Know About Our Plants in Order to Save Seed — General Principles
    A. How Exciting Do You Like It? Vegetative vs. Sexual Propagation
    B. You Look So Much Like Your Mother! Is My Plant a Hybrid or Open-Pollinated?
    C. How Plants Do It, Part I: Plant Sexual Anatomy
    D. How Plants Do It, Part II: How Do They Get Together?
    E. How Deep is Your Gene Pool? Inbreeding vs. Outbreeding
    F. Promiscuity vs. Prudence. How to Improve the Odds You Will Get the Result You Are Looking For (or Something Better!)

    Part III: If It's Your First Time: Easy Inbreeding Plants with Perfect Flowers
    A. Peas and Beans
    B. Lettuce
    C. Tomatoes
    D. Peppers

    Part IV: Plants with Moving Parts
    A. The Squash Family
    B. Spinach
    C. Easy(er) Biennials

    Part V: Not as Hard as They Look — Biennials and Obligate Outbreeders
    A. Corn
    B. Carrots and Parsnip
    C. The Cabbage Family

    Part VI: What Have We Missed?
    A. Cucumbers
    B. Melons
    C. Sunflowers

    Part VIII: Strategies for Success
    A. Curing Seed, Seed Storage, and Longevity
    B. Biennials and Winter Storage
    C. Threshing and Winnowing
    D. Space-Saving Strategies
    E. A Drying House

    Part VII: Final Recommendations: Try It!

    Index
    About the Author
    About New Society Publishers

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      Publisher: New Society Publishers
      Publication Date: 24/09/2019
      ISBN13: 9780865719262, 978-0865719262
      ISBN10: 0865719268

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      How home gardeners with limited time and garden space can reclaim the joy and independence of seed saving

      Beginning Seed Saving for the Home Gardener explores how seed saving is not only easier than we think, but that it is essential for vibrant, independent, and bountiful gardens.

      Many home gardeners refuse to eat a grocery store tomato, but routinely obtain seeds commercially, sometimes from thousands of miles away. And while seed saving can appear mysterious and intimidating, even home gardeners with limited time and space can experience the joy and independence it brings, freeing them from industry and the annual commercial seed order.

      Coverage includes:

      • Why seed saving belongs in the home garden
      • Principles of vegetative and sexual reproduction
      • Easy inbreeding plants, including legumes, lettuce, tomatoes, and peppers
      • Plants with a few more challenges, including squash, spinach, onions

        Table of Contents

        Acknowledgments

        Part I: Seed Saving Belongs in the Home Garden
        A. Where Have All the Seed-Savers Gone?
        B. How This Book is Different
        C. How to Read This Book
        D. Why Should We Save Seed

        Part II: Saving Seed: What We Need to Know About Our Plants in Order to Save Seed — General Principles
        A. How Exciting Do You Like It? Vegetative vs. Sexual Propagation
        B. You Look So Much Like Your Mother! Is My Plant a Hybrid or Open-Pollinated?
        C. How Plants Do It, Part I: Plant Sexual Anatomy
        D. How Plants Do It, Part II: How Do They Get Together?
        E. How Deep is Your Gene Pool? Inbreeding vs. Outbreeding
        F. Promiscuity vs. Prudence. How to Improve the Odds You Will Get the Result You Are Looking For (or Something Better!)

        Part III: If It's Your First Time: Easy Inbreeding Plants with Perfect Flowers
        A. Peas and Beans
        B. Lettuce
        C. Tomatoes
        D. Peppers

        Part IV: Plants with Moving Parts
        A. The Squash Family
        B. Spinach
        C. Easy(er) Biennials

        Part V: Not as Hard as They Look — Biennials and Obligate Outbreeders
        A. Corn
        B. Carrots and Parsnip
        C. The Cabbage Family

        Part VI: What Have We Missed?
        A. Cucumbers
        B. Melons
        C. Sunflowers

        Part VIII: Strategies for Success
        A. Curing Seed, Seed Storage, and Longevity
        B. Biennials and Winter Storage
        C. Threshing and Winnowing
        D. Space-Saving Strategies
        E. A Drying House

        Part VII: Final Recommendations: Try It!

        Index
        About the Author
        About New Society Publishers

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