Saving Vegetable Seeds Harvest Clean Store & Plant Seeds from Your Garden A Storey Basics Title

This illustrated, step-by-step guide shows you how to save seeds from 20 of the most popular vegetable garden plants, including beans, carrots, peas, peppers, and tomatoes. You'll learn how each plant is pollinated (key to determining how the seed should be saved), how to select the seeds to collect, and how to process and store collected seeds. Grow the varieties you love, year after year!

Save vegetable seeds as you harvest so your favorite plants can grow again next season. In this Storey BASICS(r) 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.

Become more self-sufficient by saving your own seed from one year to the next.

EXACTLY WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW

EXACTLY WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW

EXACTLY WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW

EXACTLY WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW

EXACTLY WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW

EXACTLY WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW

EXACTLY WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW

EXACTLY WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW

EXACTLY WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW

Fern Marshall Bradley is a former garden-book editor for Rodale and a long-time vegetable gardener. She is best known as the editor of Rodale's All-New Encyclopedia of Organic Gardening and the author of Rodale's Vegetable Garden Problem Solver. She has also authored or edited many other books, including Saving Seeds (A Storey Basics) and Reader's Digest's Vegetable Gardening. She lives in Greenwich, New York.

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