Urban Seed Saving
Plant. Harvest. Collect. Repeat.
How would you like to enjoy your favorite variety of garden vegetables year after year?
You can. Even if you live in the city. Or the suburbs.
This comprehensive guide will show you how to collect the seeds in your garden this year, so you can reap the mouth-watering benefits next year, too.
Plant. Harvest. Collect. Repeat.
How would you like to enjoy your favorite variety of garden vegetables year after year?
You can. Even if you live in the city. Or the suburbs.
This comprehensive guide will show you how to collect the seeds in your garden this year, so you can reap the mouth-watering benefits next year, too.
Urban Seed Saving is a part of the ABUNDANT HARVESTS SERIES. It shows you the possibilities based on the assets of your current garden.
This guide will help you discover the science and art of saving the seeds you need. You will get practical, workable answers so you can join the seed revolution.
Some experts believe that the future of preserving heirloom varieties lies in city gardens. Why not design your garden today?
Why should you believe this author?
Joanne Poyourow has grown vegetables for more than two decades and loves figuring out yummy ways to cook them.
She distilled the recommendations of Seed Savers Exchange, the Organic Seed Alliance, and others, to create a guide that is specifically for seed saving in the city.
Joanne is the co-founder of Cityscape Seeds, a micro-scale seed enterprise in Los Angeles. Urban Seed Saving is part of the Abundant Harvests series, which is devoted to the question:
How can you achieve abundant harvests of rich, nourishing vegetables within a tight city footprint without a lot of gardener time and without having to buy a lot of stuff?
What you will learn in this easy-to-read and tastefully formatted guide:
• Why urban seed saving is different
• Which seeds are worth saving
• How to recognize the seed saving assets of your garden
• How to select the appropriate species
• How to keep accurate records
• Which seed cleaning tools are favored and why
• How to preserve varietal purity
• How to store seeds
• Which locations are safe for specific plants
• What to do about population and diversity issues
• And much more …
Buy a copy of this straightforward instructional book and find delicious and nutritious success tomorrow. Gift a copy to a friend.
