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

Fern Marshall Bradley, author of Building Raised Beds and Saving Vegetable Seeds, is a long-time editor of books about organic gardening, organic farming, and sustainable living. Bradley lives and gardens in Cambridge, New York.

Introduction

Chapter 1: Getting Started with Saving Seeds

                What Is a Seed? – Are All Seeds Worth Saving? – It’s in

                the Genes – Simple Seed Saving – Coaxing Seeds from

                Leaf and Root Crops

Chapter 2: Seed-Saving Techniques

                Growing Great Seeds – Overwintering Biennial Crops –

                Harvesting Seeds – Cleaning and Drying Seeds –

                Storing Seeds – Testing Seed Viability

Chapter 3: Saving Seeds, Crop by Crop

                Beans – Carrots – Corn – Cucumbers – Lettuce – Melons and

                Watermelons – Onions and Leeks – Peas – Peppers – Radishes –

                Squash – Tomatoes

Resources

Index