Seed to Seed book

Seed to Seed: Seed Saving and Growing Techniques for Vegetable Gardeners by Suzanne Ashworth, 2nd Edition, newly updated and greatly expanded, 228 pages. We recommend this book as a foundation book for avid gardeners and small farmers. Seed to Seed is a complete seed-saving guide that describes specific techniques for saving the seeds of 160 different vegetables. It is a classic text with invaluable information everything from regional growing to isolation distances to federal germination standards. It is a quicker read than the other seed books we offer.

Section I covers saving seeds, botanical classifications, pollination and flower structure, maintain variety purity including isolation distances, seed cleaning. and storage.

Section II Covers for each major vegetable family covers pollination, crossing and isolation; seed harvesting and processing; seed statistics; growing from seed; regional recommendations. Local knowledge about seed starting techniques for each vegetable has been shared by expert gardeners from seven regions of the United States-Northeast, Mid-Atlantic, Southeast/Gulf Coast, Midwest, Southwest, Central West Coast, and Northwest.

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