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The Garden Seed Saving Guide: Easy Heirloom Seeds for the Home
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About The Garden Seed Saving Guide: Easy Heirloom Seeds
Review This book is a treasure chest of information. She covers a lot of relatively dry subjects with an easy and engaging style. What's a biennial? Why do we care about the Latin names? Why do we want to remove the gelatinous membrane from tomato seeds, and how? How long do seeds last, and how can we prolong their viability. What is genetic diversity within a species, and why is it important to preserve? Most of these are things that I had managed to skirt (while still having enough success with sowing veggies and flowers), but knew that they were important. Beginners will return to these pages again and again, while those who have been gardening for decades will find plenty of new and interesting information too. --Tina Sams, The Essential Herbal Blog Seed-saving always seemed daunting to me. I like to try many different varieties, to see what grows best on the various soil types on my farm. The intricacies of seed-saving, from isolation distances to proper post-harvest treatment and storage, kept me away from this, for the most part. I tried saving seed in Zip-loc bags with silica gel desiccant to keep them dry so they will last longer. Even this turned out to be wrong, as one can over-dry seeds. That's why The Garden Seed Saving Guide is so refreshingly useful. It gives you just enough information to save the seeds of common vegetables and to understand the basics, without burying the reader in a vast bog of detail. This book was long overdue. At just 64 pages, the Guide is more of a long booklet than a short book and reads like a manual or handbook without a lot of superfluous information. It s what you've been looking for. Grab it and take it with you to the garden. --John Wages, Permaculture Design Product Description At a time where commercial forces have increased control over the food supply by patenting seeds with genetically modified organisms (GMOs), seed saving has become an important skill to encourage and share. Longtime organic gardener Jill Henderson explains how preserving open-pollinated and heirloom garden seeds from one season to the next will not only save gardeners money but will also increase their self-sufficiency and help them maintain a naturally diverse gene pool of food plants. Here are some of the many insider tips you'll discover: which seeds are easiest to save, why saving seeds preserves genetic diversity, easy hand-pollination techniques for beginners, the right way to harvest, clean, and store seeds at home, how to save hundreds of seed varieties from only seven crop types, how to ensure seed viability and test germination rates, and ways to keep seeds from cross-pollinating. Armed with these simple tips and instructions, anyone with a green thumb will find seed saving easy and rewarding. About the Author Jill Henderson is a lifelong organic gardener and seed saver with a passion for sustainable agriculture and local food production. She teaches workshops for experienced and beginner gardeners about the current global challenges presented by bio-engineered food crops and shows participants how to grow and save their own open-pollinated and heirloom seeds. A longtime contributor to Llewellyn's Herbal Almanac, she is also a regular columnist for Acres USA magazine, and the author and editor of Show Me Oz(ShowMeOz.wordpress.com), a weekly blog filled with in-depth articles on gardening, seed saving, homesteading, wildcrafting, edible and medicinal plants, herbs, nature, and more. In 2014 Jill founded Share the Seed, a nonprofit organization that encourages gardeners to grow heirloom seeds and supply them to others in need. Jill and her husband, Dean, live in the heart of the rugged Missouri Ozarks, growing and wildcrafting a wide array of organic herbs, fruits, and vegetables on their rural homestead.
