Resources To Help With Seed-Starting and Saving

Books Available at BCPL

The Book of Seeds: a Life-Size Guide to Six Hundred Species from Around the World / edited by Paul Smith

Carrots Love Tomatoes: Secrets of Companion Planting for Successful Gardening / Louise Riotte

The Complete Guide to Saving Seeds: 322 Vegetables, Herbs, Flowers, Fruits, Trees, and Shrubs / Robert Gough and Cheryl Moore-Gough

Gardening with Heirloom Seeds: Tried-and-True Flowers, Fruits, and Vegetables for a New Generation / Lynn Coulter

Kentucky Heirloom Seeds: Growing, Eating, Saving / Bill Best with Dobree Adams ; foreword by A. Gwynn Henderson ; afterword by Brook Elliott

The Manual of Seed Saving: Harvesting, Storing, and Sowing Techniques for Vegetables, Herbs, and Fruits / Andrea Heistinger ; Arche Noah, Pro Specie Rara ; translated by Ian Miller

The New Seed-Starters Handbook / by Nancy Bubel ; illustrations by Frank Fretz ; photographs by Alison Miksch & Rodale Press Photography Staff

Saving Seeds, Preserving Taste: Heirloom Seed Savers in Appalachia / Bill Best

The Seed-Starter's Handbook / by Nancy Bubel ; ill. by Robert Shetterly ; photos. by Mike Bubel

Seed to Seed: Seed Saving and Growing Techniques for Vegetable Gardeners / by Suzanne Ashworth ; edited by Kent Whealy ; photography by David Cavagnaro

Seedswap: the Gardener's Guide to Saving and Swapping Seeds / Josie Jeffery

Starting Seeds: How to Grow Healthy, Productive Vegetables, Herbs and Flowers from Seed / by Barbara Ellis

Starting from Seed: the Natural Gardener's Guide to Propagating Plants / Karan Davis Cutler, guest editor

Starting & Saving Seeds: Grow the Perfect Vegetables, Fruits, Herbs and Flowers for Your Garden / Julie Thompson-Adolf

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