Seed Sowing and Saving: Step-By-Step Techniques for Collecting and Growing More Than 100 Vegetables, Flowers, and Herbs

by Carole B. Turner

Book Overview

Carole Turner shows you everything you need to know to harvest, dry, store, and sow seeds from more than 100 common garden plants so you can use them again next year. She provides information on... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1580170013
• ISBN13: 9781580170017
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Storey Publishing
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 8.5" x 11.0"

Customer Reviews

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!

Very informative and easy to use

I purchased two books at the same time. This one is excellant for a beginner in gardening as well as an old timer. Easy to use and understand.

my review

I liked the fact that this book not only contained information on saving & sowing seeds for EACH type of flower of vegetable, but also contained info about starting seeds in general. It contains VERY, VERY, VERY useful info. I thought I was an advanced gardener, but I learned some things from this book.

Just what I needed

I bought this after seeing it as one of the few books offered by Vesseys Seeds (vesseys.com). (It was listed at[money] - lucky for me I often comparison shop.) Many propagation books contain information on seed starting, but because this one concentrates on seed propagation, it has more room to expand on the topic and gives more than books that have to save space to discuss other techniques like cuttings, dividing, layering etc. It discusses seed saving plant by plant, and contained an entry for nearly every plant I looked up.