Gardening at BYU: Seed Saving

A useful guide on saving a wide variety of seeds.

Everything you need to know to harvest, dry, store, and sow seeds from more than 100 common garden plants, providing helpful tips on appropriately preparing your soil, testing seeds for viability, tending for your seedlings, and more.

With easy-to-follow instructions for lettuce, beans, corn, onions, and much more, you'll soon be creating your very own heirloom plants. Learn how to save only the best from all your vegetables and create a wealth of seeds your family can use for years to come.

This is a clear and winsome introduction to the essentials of seed saving, from seed selection criteria to harvest and storage tips. It also addresses the role of seed-saving communities: local swaps, seed companies, friends and neighbours and even how the Internet can support this time-honoured practice.

A complete seed-saving guide for 160 vegetable crops, with detailed information about each vegetable, including the botanical classification, flower structure and means of pollination, isolation distance, the need for caging or hand-pollination, and proper methods for harvesting, drying, cleaning, and storing the seeds.

Saving Seeds, Preserving Taste will introduce readers to the cultural traditions associated with seed saving, as well as the remarkable people who have used grafting practices and hand-by-hand trading to keep alive varieties that would otherwise have been lost.

A growing movement is striving to preserve and expand our stock of heritage and heirloom varieties through seed saving and sharing opportunities. Seed Libraries is a practical guide to saving seeds through community programs, including: Step-by-step instructions for setting up a seed library A wealth of ideas to help attract patrons and keep the momentum going Profiles of existing libraries and other types of seed saving partnership. Whoever controls the seeds controls the food supply.