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Breed Your Own Vegetable Varieties (Paperback, Revised second edition) Loot Price: R624
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Breed Your Own Vegetable Varieties (Paperback, Revised second edition)

Carol Deppe

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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:

how to breed for a wide range of different traits (flavor, size, shape, or color; cold or heat tolerance; pest and disease resistance; and regional adaptation)

how to save seed and maintain varieties

how to conduct your own variety trials and other farm- or garden-based research

how to breed for performance under organic or sustainable growing methods

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.

General

Imprint: Chelsea Green Pub. Co
Country of origin: United States
Release date: June 2013
First published: November 2000
Authors: Carol Deppe
Dimensions: 234 x 156 x 27mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 367
Edition: Revised second edition
ISBN-13: 978-1-890132-72-9
Categories: Books > Professional & Technical > Agriculture & farming > General
Books > Health, Home & Family > Gardening > Gardening: plants > Fruit & vegetables
Books > Gardening > Gardening: plants > Fruit & vegetables
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LSN: 1-890132-72-1
Barcode: 9781890132729

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