Breed Your Own Vegetable Varieties : The Gardener's and Farmer's Guide to Plant Breeding and Seed Saving, 2nd Edition
Revised second edition
by
Carol Deppe
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
1890132721
ISBN-13
9781890132729
Edition
Revised second edition
Publisher
Chelsea Green Publishing Co
Imprint
Chelsea Green Publishing Co
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Feb 7th, 2000
Print length
384 Pages
Weight
758 grams
Dimensions
24.10 x 19.20 x 2.80 cms
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Authoritative and easy-to-understand, Breed Your Own Vegetable Varieties: The Gardener's and Farmer's Guide to Plant Breeding and Seed Saving is the only guide to plant breeding and seed saving for the serious home gardener and the small-scale farmer or commercial grower.
Authoritative and accessible, this is the guide to plant breeding and seed saving for the serious home vegetable gardener and the small-scale farmer.
All gardeners and farmers should be plant breeders, says author Carol Deppe. Developing new vegetable varieties doesn’t require a specialized education, a lot of land, or even a lot of time. It can be done on any scale. It’s enjoyable. It’s deeply rewarding. You can get useful new varieties much faster than you might suppose. And you can eat your mistakes.
Inside this comprehensive vegetable gardening book you will discover how to:
• breed for a wide range of different traits (flavor, size, shape, or color)
• grow for cold or heat tolerance, pest and disease resistance, and regional adaptation
• save seed and maintain varieties
• conduct your own variety trials and other farm or garden-based research
• breed for performance under organic or sustainable growing methods
In this one-size-fits-all world of multinational seed companies, plant patents, and biotech monopolies, more and more gardeners and farmers are recognizing that they need to “take back their seeds.” They need to save more of their own seed, grow and maintain the best traditional and regional varieties, and develop more of their own unique new varieties. Breed Your Own Vegetable Varieties shows the way, and offers an exciting introduction to a whole new gardening adventure.
"Deppe invites you on a journey of discovery to reclaim the lost lore of our ancestors, to relearn the traditions of seed-saving and seed-breeding and to take back control of the seed. . . . Within you will find information not available in other garden books or anywhere else. ."—C. R. Lawn, Fedco Seeds
All gardeners and farmers should be plant breeders, says author Carol Deppe. Developing new vegetable varieties doesn’t require a specialized education, a lot of land, or even a lot of time. It can be done on any scale. It’s enjoyable. It’s deeply rewarding. You can get useful new varieties much faster than you might suppose. And you can eat your mistakes.
Inside this comprehensive vegetable gardening book you will discover how to:
• breed for a wide range of different traits (flavor, size, shape, or color)
• grow for cold or heat tolerance, pest and disease resistance, and regional adaptation
• save seed and maintain varieties
• conduct your own variety trials and other farm or garden-based research
• breed for performance under organic or sustainable growing methods
In this one-size-fits-all world of multinational seed companies, plant patents, and biotech monopolies, more and more gardeners and farmers are recognizing that they need to “take back their seeds.” They need to save more of their own seed, grow and maintain the best traditional and regional varieties, and develop more of their own unique new varieties. Breed Your Own Vegetable Varieties shows the way, and offers an exciting introduction to a whole new gardening adventure.
"Deppe invites you on a journey of discovery to reclaim the lost lore of our ancestors, to relearn the traditions of seed-saving and seed-breeding and to take back control of the seed. . . . Within you will find information not available in other garden books or anywhere else. ."—C. R. Lawn, Fedco Seeds
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