Some gardeners save seeds to cut costs. Some save them to preserve rare plant species. Others just crave the kinds of tomatoes you can’t buy in a store.
Whatever the motivation, The Complete Guide to Saving Seeds provides the information to get you started.
Authors Robert Gough and Cheryl Moore-Gough provide a basic botany lesson and information about harvesting and preparing seeds, saving them from season to season and using them to grow new plants. For the more ambitious seed savers, there’s information about breeding new plant varieties.
About half of the book is devoted to specific information about 322 plants. The book covers not just vegetables and fruits, but herbs, flowers, trees and shrubs as well.
The Complete Guide to Saving Seeds is published by Storey Publishing and sells for $24.95 in softcover.
— Mary Beth Breckenridge
