Saving Vegetable Seeds: Harvest, Clean, Store, and Plant Seeds from Your Garden
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    [synopsis] => 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. Grow vegetable favorites year after year with expert tips on choosing, collecting, preparing, and starting seeds from the home garden.  
	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. 
	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. 
	
	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
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