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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 635.0423 EAN: 9781890132729 Edition: 2nd ISBN: 1890132721 Label: Chelsea Green Manufacturer: Chelsea Green Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 384 Publication Date: 2000-12 Publisher: Chelsea Green Studio: Chelsea Green Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: 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. 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. Discover: 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: The Gardener's and Farmer's Guide to Plant Breeding and Seed Saving shows the way, and offers an exciting introduction to a whole new gardening adventure. Average Rating:
 Rating: - Fantastic Deatailed but ReadableThis is an extra-ordianary book. Very detailed but very readable. It encouraged me to experiement and provided answers for past results. Rating:  - Good bookI was looking for a book on seed saving. This book sounded like it had information on that topic, plus the topic of breeding your own plant varieties; a 2 for 1!. I was a little disappointed that there weren't any pictures in the book. I would have liked to have seen some visual examples of hand breeding, different flower types, pictures of plant parents and their offspring, and of course a few concerning seed saving. But the vast amounts of information in this book more than make up for the lack ... Read More Rating: - Suprise!!! This book is fun!!!I bought the earlier edition of this book for someone else...had no intention of reading it (or keeping it) but started to browse and got hooked! This book reads like a novel--all the characters are my near and dear friends, the garden fruits and veggies. Mouth-watering detail sets the stage for getting your imagination started. What would you like to grow that you haven't seen in the seed catalogues? A watermellon that can ripen in your northern climate? Greens that won't be mowed ... Read More Rating: - Best Introduction to Breeding for BeginnersThe author has a PhD from Harvard in biology and is a geneticist. Yet she has written her easy-to-understand book as if she has a teaching degree from Ashland University. Her premise is that all our major food crops were originally developed by amateurs. Until recently, all gardeners and farmers saved their own seed and hence, all gardeners and farmers were automatically amateur plant breeders - and amateur plant breeding was the only kind of plant breeding there was. Deppe's book has ... Read More Rating: - Inspiring for anyoneI'm a gardener but not a seed saver; I'd like to, but it's a somewhat confusing and overwelming subject. This book really explained the issues of cross breeding and pollination, so I could see why those seed saving instructions are so inconsistent. And it is very inspiring about why I'd want to save seeds and improved the variety, and why local seeds are so valuable, and a number of great ideas on the mechanics both that I can use (spacing isn't so important ... Read More 
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