Seed to Seed: Seed Saving and Growing Techniques for Vegetable GardenersSeed to Seed is a complete seed-saving guide that describes specific techniques for saving the seeds of 160 different vegetables. This book contains detailed information about each vegetable, including its botanical classification, flower structure and means of pollination, required population size, isolation distance, techniques for caging or hand-pollination, and also the proper methods for harvesting, drying, cleaning, and storing the seeds. Seed to Seed is widely acknowledged as the best guide available for home gardeners to learn effective ways to produce and store seeds on a small scale. The author has grown seed crops of every vegetable featured in the book, and has thoroughly researched and tested all of the techniques she recommends for the home garden. This newly updated and greatly expanded Second Edition includes additional information about how to start each vegetable from seed, which has turned the book into a complete growing guide. 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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... insects to move the pollen from one plant to another . INSECT - POLLINATED PLANTS Many vegetables produce separate male and fe- male flowers on the same plant . Such plants are said to have imperfect flowers , since each blossom only ...
... insects . Populations of peppers , for example , are often grown inside a screened cage to prevent any insect crossing with nearby varieties . Other more elaborate variations , that will be explained shortly , can involve alternate day ...
... insects to pollinate each variety for one day , then excludes insects during the next day . The trade - off is that seed production is somewhat lim- ited due to the lack of daily pollination . The plants sometimes compensate for this by ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 8 |
Caging Techniques | 21 |
Seed Storage Techniques | 28 |
Copyright | |
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Seed to Seed: Seed Saving and Growing Techniques for Vegetable Gardeners Suzanne Ashworth Limited preview - 2002 |