Seed Sowing and Saving: Step-by-Step Techniques for Collecting and Growing More Than 100 Vegetables, Flowers, and Herbs (Storey's Gardening Skills Illustrated)

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• ISBN13: 9781580170017
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Here are step-by-step techniques for getting and growing free plants by saving seeds from more than 100 vegetables, herbs, and flowers. The book familiarizes readers with basic seed collecting and storing. Instruction is given on how to save seeds, sowing techniques, and the care and maintenance of seedlings. Over 300 two-color illustrations.
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It's not bad...
This is my first year learning how to preserve seed from my heirloom garden. I think this book was helpful in doing that so far, however, I'm not overly impressed with some of the explanations...it just seems to need a little bit more. For example, some areas that are describing seed preservation want you to put the seeds into water and allow the viable seed to drop to bottom and the "bad" seed to float to the top, okay no problem...but then she fails to tell you how long that can take...even a ballpark estimate. She just says to stir the water so mold doesn't form...so I am assuming that would mean on a daily basis? For how many days? Do all the viable seeds drop to the bottom of the bowl at once and then it's time to drain? Does it happen over the course of several days? Then there are areas of the book that describe the seed saving techniques very thoroughly. Another smaller issue I had was just wishing there was more on herbs. The only herb she discussed was parsley, and on that one she says that you are not supposed to save seed from the first year you grow it...but no real information that I could see as to why.

So I guess the bottom line for me is that I'm going to have to purchase another book to cross reference with this one because I just don't feel it was as thorough as it should have or could have been, especially for a 14 dollar PAPERback book. I would say it's worthy of about half of that price. There is definitely useful information in it...it just isn't as complete as I would have hoped. I think I'll be purchasing the Seed to Seed book next...

Saving and harvesting Seeds
I've just started my gardening career and this book has some very good information. Mostly the information that I was looking for was concerning the planting and maturity times of the seeds as well as the storage of seeds. How to get the plants to produce the seeds and when is the best time to harvest the seeds and of course how to store seeds over the winter and longer.
Mainly I'm looking for vegetables and this book covered both vegetables and flowers. With that said I wish the book covered just vegetables, but I'm growing a few flowers as well to fend off some of the bad bugs that attach the garden vegetables. Overall, this was a fairly good book, but more information on vegetables would improve my opinion of the book.

nice book
Nice Book, but slow getting here compared to past purchases, but within the delivery date window

Great book
This book is easy to read and understand on how to save seeds from your
plants. I look forward to using it this summer.

Wonderful book, very useful!
I wrote a talk on seed saving for my garden club and this is the book I referred to the most! It has informative diagrams with closeups of what the seeds look like, and it actually tells you how to separate the seeds from the chaff, and has a chart of what kind of storage conditions each seed likes. I also used it in the spring to start seeds for the very first time - it was a real life saver for those of us who don't know what we're doing! I didn't know some seeds had to be cooled first, or scarified, or how to do it, and this book shows you how. This book covers the most common vegetables and flowers that are propagated by seeds - practically everything I was growing!

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