Synopses & Reviews
Growing vegetables, fruits, and herbs from seed has many benefits for both the gardener and the planet. Seed saving helps gardeners maintain important regional varieties that are well suited for specific conditions, encourages plant diversity, and helps promote plants with the best texture, flavor, and variety.
The Manual of Seed Saving is an authoritative guide from experts around the globe. Supported by research from the global conservation organizations Arche Noah and Pro Specie Rara, it features information on how to maximize seed quality and yield for more than 100 crop plants. It includes popular market plants like asparagus, carrots, corn, rhubarb, spinach, squash, and tomatoes. Plant profiles include critical information on pollination, isolation distances, cultivation, harvest, storage, and pests and diseases.
The Manual of Seed Saving is an essential reference for all food producers including vegetable growers, market gardeners, and farmers.
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"A novice or expert gardener will find it equally appealing and a fun, compelling and swift read." Botanical Ramblings, official blog of the Washington Native Plant Society
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"[A] handy guide for seed savers."
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"[A] handy guide for seed savers."
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"[Makes] it easy to find information in a snap, on most any edible you want to grow." The Washington Post
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"[A] handy guide for seed savers."
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"Even if someone already has a good book on seed saving, he or she also needs The Manual of Seed Saving. Well illustrated and thorough, it demystifies an important and satisfying practice that is attracting many converts."
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"Practical gardeners will appreciate the handy nature of The Manual of Seed Saving. . . It's bound to become a well-thumbed reference guide."
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"[A] handy guide for seed savers."
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"[A] handy guide for seed savers."
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"[A] handy guide for seed savers."
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"A novice or expert gardener will find it equally appealing and a fun, compelling and swift read." The San Francisco Chronicle
Synopsis
"Makes it easy to find information in a snap, on most any edible you want to grow." --Kylee Baumle, Horticulture
Growing vegetables, fruits, and herbs from seed has many benefits for both the gardener and the planet. Why save seeds when you can buy them so cheap? Not only does seed saving allow you to grow a diverse, organic array of fruits and vegetables, it also offers an opportunity to work closely with nature and be even more hands-on with the food you grow, cook, and eat. Supported by research from the global conservation organizations Arche Noah and Pro Specie Rara, The Manual of Seed Saving features information on how to maximize seed quality and yield for crop plants like asparagus, carrots, corn, rhubarb, spinach, squash, and tomatoes. Plant profiles include critical information on pollination, isolation distances, cultivation, harvest, storage, and pests and diseases.
About the Author
Andrea Heistinger works professionally as an agronomist, author, and educator. She studied agriculture at BOKU, the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna. She lives and works in the Waldviertel region of Austria and in South Tyrol, Italy.
Translator Ian Miller is an American agroecologist, natural builder, stonemason, baker, educator, and musician living in Austria. He worked at the Seed Savers Exchange in Decorah, Iowa, where he planned and managed the dozens of isolation gardens at Seed Savers Exchange’s Heritage Farm.