Vegetable Seed Saving Handbook

Complete, Free Seed-Saving Instructions

3 Easy Ways to Use This Handbook:

Go directly to the vegetable you’re looking for:

Amaranth    Arugula    Basil    Beans    Bean Family    Beets    Beet Family    Broccoli    Broomcorn    Brussels Sprouts    Cabbage    Cabbage Family    Cantaloupe    Carrots    Carrot Family    Cauliflower    Celery    Chinese Cabbage    Chinese Mustard    Chives    Collards    Cilantro    Corn    Cotton    Cowpeas    Cucumber    Dill    Eggplant    Fava Beans    Fennel    Garlic    Garlic Chives    Gourds    Kale    Lamb’s Quarters    Lettuce    Melon, Honeydew and Musk    Mustard    Okra    Onion    Parsley    Pea, Garden and Snow    Peppers    Pumpkin    Radish    Sorghum    Squash Family    Swiss Chard    Tomatillo    Tomatoes    Turnip    Watermelon

Read the Handbook and learn how to breed your own new vegetable varieties, reproduce existing heirloom seed varieties and save vigorous, free seeds from your garden.

You may also print any of the chapters you’re interested in (the print version has most colors, navigation, etc. removed). Remember to use recyled paper!

Chapters:

> Seed Saving Handbook Home

Why Save Seeds?

How to Grow Healthy Seeds

Saving Heirloom Seeds

How to Save Pure Seeds

Breed Your Own Varieties

Seed Isolation Distances

Seed-Specific Instructions

Harvesting Your Seeds

Storing Your Seeds

Heirloom Seed Sources

Bibliography

Donate

Leave a Reply

  • Blogging with Integrity

    BlogWithIntegrity.com
  • Subscribe to our Monthly Newsletter

    To subscribe to our dandy newsletter simply add your email below. A confirmation email will be sent to you!


  • a note about linking and participating

    namaste. Sbafarmscollective.org, a brand new look for the site for a 30 year old collective on the Gulf Coast of Texas. We were completely destroyed by hurricane ike and as part of our rebuilding efforts we have launched our site and it contains a forum section. We would greatly appreciate your consideration for cross posting or participation in the forum section. We have a great deal of common in what we seek to accomplish and would like to contribute in your regional sections of connections and reciprocal linking and posting. Thank you for your time and consideration michael founder sba farms collective.
  • Additional Information

    FAIR USE NOTICE
    This site contains copyrighted material.
    This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 License.
    .
    If you wish to use copyrighted material from this site for purposes of your own that go beyond ‘fair use’, you must obtain permission from the copyright owner.

    For more information on sbafarmscollective.org Fair Use Policy.
    see the Privacy Policy page listed in the OUR PAGES Links below

    © 2000 - 2012 SBA Farms, all rights reserved. Website revisions by SBA FARMS COLLECTIVE

  • Green and Secure site


    Protected by WP-Secure Plugin
    SiteSecurityMonitor.com

    Visit Hyperlocavore - A free yard sharing community
  • Posts from the past

  • Visitors to our site