Back garden seed saving : keeping our vegetable heritage alive

Stickland, Sue2008

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Summary

The latest strains of runner beans may give long stringless pods, but will they crop well on a cold windswept site? Dwarf peas may be the easiest to grow commericially, but you will still find the six food types in many gardens - they look attractive, crop for longer and taste "like peas used to taste". As such varieties have disappeared from the seed catalogues over the past few decades, dedicated gardeners have kept them in cultivation. In this popular book you can find out some of the vegetable varieties no longer found in the seed catalogues, and others that are there now but may not be for much longer. It introduces you to some of the gardeners who grow such varieties, their tales and tips, and their infectious enthusiasm. Most importantly it gives easy to follow crop-by-crop guidelines to help you save seed for yourself.