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Growing vegetables, fruits, and herbs from seed has many benefits for both the gardener and the planet. Seed saving helps gardeners maintain important regional varieties that are well suited for specific conditions, encourages plant diversity, and helps promote plants with the best texture, flavor, and variety.
The Manual of Seed Saving is an authoritative guide from experts around the globe. Supported by research from the global conservation organizations Arche Noah and Pro Specie Rara, it features information on how to maximize seed quality and yield for more than 100 crop plants. It includes popular market plants like asparagus, carrots, corn, rhubarb, spinach, squash, and tomatoes. Plant profiles include critical information on pollination, isolation distances, cultivation, harvest, storage, and pests and diseases.
The Manual of Seed Saving is an essential reference for all food producers including vegetable growers, market gardeners, and farmers.

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THE MANUAL OF SEED SAVING THE MANUAL OF SEED SAVING Harvesting Storing and - photo 1

THE
MANUAL
OF SEED
SAVING

THE MANUAL OF SEED SAVING Harvesting Storing and Sowing Techniques for - photo 2

THE
MANUAL
OF SEED
SAVING

Harvesting,
Storing,
and Sowing
Techniques
for Vegetables,
Herbs, and Fruits

Andrea Heistinger

In association with
Arche Noah
Pro Specie Rara
translated by Ian Miller

Timber Press Portland | London

Frontispiece: Lukas Heilingsetzers polyculture garden, Austria.
Polycultures help crops outcompete weeds and are in and of themselves more stable ecosystems.

Copyright 2003, 2010 by Loewenzahn.

Andrea Heistinger/Beate Koller/Pro Specie Rara: Handbuch Samengrtnerei. Sorten erhalten. Vielfalt vermehren. Gemse geniessen .

Loewenzahn Verlag in der Studienverlag Ges.m.b.H., Innsbruck-Wien 2004.

English-language edition copyright 2013 by Timber Press, Inc.
All rights reserved.

Published in 2013 by Timber Press, Inc.

The Haseltine Building2 The Quadrant
133 S.W. Second Avenue, Suite 450135 Salusbury Road
Portland, Oregon 97204-3527London NW6 6RJ
timberpress.comtimberpress.co.uk

Book design by Susan Applegate
Printed in China

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Heistinger, Andrea.

[Handbuch Samengrtnerei. English]

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.English-language ed.

p. cm.

Translation of: Handbuch Samengrtnerei. Sorten erhalten. Vielfalt vermehren. Gemse geniessen.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-60469-382-9

1. VegetablesSeeds. 2. VegetablesPropagation. 3. VegetablesVarieties. 4. Vegetable gardening. I. Arche Noah. II. Pro Specie Rara (Foundation) III. Title.

SB324.75.H4513 2013
635dc232012050582

A catalog record for this book is also available from the British Library.

CONTENTS

wheat, rye, oats, barley,

bush bean, pole bean,

Radicchio Kohlrabi Carrots Mal - photo 3

Radicchio

Kohlrabi Carrots Mallow Pole b - photo 4

Kohlrabi

Carrots Mallow Pole beans Mala - photo 5

Carrots

Mallow Pole beans Malabar spinach - photo 6

Mallow

Pole beans Malabar spinach Poppyseed - photo 7

Pole beans

Malabar spinach Poppyseed Fig-leaf gourd - photo 8

Malabar spinach

Poppyseed Fig-leaf gourd Tomatoes - photo 9

Poppyseed

Fig-leaf gourd Tomatoes Tomatillo ACKNOWLEDGMENTS THANKS TO - photo 10

Fig-leaf gourd

Tomatoes Tomatillo ACKNOWLEDGMENTS THANKS TO contributors to the entire - photo 11

Tomatoes

Tomatillo ACKNOWLEDGMENTS THANKS TO contributors to the entire book Beate - photo 12

Tomatillo

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

THANKS TO

contributors to the entire book: Beate Koller and Peter Zipser (Arche Noah); Kurt Eichenberger (Pro Specie Rara)

contributors to individual chapters: Peter Lassnig and Penny Lichtenecker (Arche Noah); Bernd Horneburg, Ludwig Watschong, Quirin Wember, Reinhard Ehrentraut, Friedmunt Sonnemann, and Gerald Krebs (Dreschflegel); Andreas Emmerling-Skala and Ursula Reinhard ( VEN )

Pat and Markus Meier, who made the publishing of this book possible

Loewenzahn Verlag, and especially Eva Simeaner, for their dedicated support

all those who have done so much to document crop diversity and promote seed propagation, especially Nancy Arrowsmith and Bernward Geier

Peter Zipser, who, as head of Arche Noahs preservation gardens, has gained vast knowledge of the cultivation of innumerable species and varieties, which represented an important basis for this book

Sativa (Amadeus Tschunke), ReinSaat (Reinhild Frech-Emmelmann), Rebekka Herzog, and Lukas Heilingsetzer, for all the beautiful photos they allowed us to take in their gardens

Thomas Gladis, for consulting on scientific names and pollination

Robert Holenweger, gardener at Schlossgarten Wildegg, for his tireless efforts in advising us on the photographs contained in this book

Stefan Emmelmann and Markus Zuber, for making portraits of plants with camera and pencil

gardeners all, who over millennia helped develop the crop diversity described in this volume

FOREWORD

IT HAS NOW BEEN FIVE YEARS since the first edition of The Seed Savers Handbook was published, and we look back with pride on what has happened since. The Deutsche Gesellschaft fr Gartenbau (the German equivalent of the UKs Royal Horticultural Society) named the Handbook its Book of the Year in 2005; over 10,000 copies have been sold; it has been released in paperback, a Swedish translation is underway, and other translations are being planned. This is a huge success for a nonfiction book, and it goes to show the renewed enthusiasm for a topic even now occasionally dismissed as antiquated: propagating your own garden seed.

For Arche Noah (Noahs Ark) and Pro Specie Rara (literally, for rare species), this nearly lost knowledge is a precious treasure; and both nonprofits (Austrian and Swiss, respectively) view the continued development of crop plants as being in grave danger without it. We would like to empower all farmers and gardeners, to help them see themselves, once more, as those who create the nutritious foods of our futureas people who, literally and figuratively, take seed back into their own hands.

Up until a few decades ago, gardeners did not think twice about propagating their own seed. Every pea that you hold in your hand is the end link of a chain of food, propagation, and breeding that stretches back many millennia. Professional plant breeding broke this chain, through hybridizing, genetic modification, and other highly specialized breeding methods. It is impossible under normal conditions to develop new varieties from plants bred in these ways. Thus, gardeners have slowly been dispossessed of a common good and basic raw material.

It is our hope that this book continues to help ensure our reconnection with heirloom varieties and that once again, farmers and gardeners confidently take responsibility for propagating the plants that nourish us all. So have fun experimenting! And dont forget: the only thing more wonderful than propagating your own seed is passing it on to others!

B EATE K OLLER , Arche Noah

B LA B ARTHA , Pro Specie Rara

FOREWORD to the first edition

WE HAVE WRITTEN this book to give you clear, practical instructions on how to grow vegetables for seed. And because we would like both beginning and experienced gardeners to benefit from it, we have included not only the relevant rules but also the exceptions that inevitably come up when dealing with living things. It is a practice-oriented approach, based upon long, combined years of experience at Arche Noah and Pro Specie Rara. Chapters on individual crops were supplemented with knowledge gained by VEN (the Verein zur Erhaltung der Nutzpflanzenvielfalt/Association for the Maintenance of Crop Diversity) and Dreschflegel (a German organization similar to Arche Noah and Pro Specie Rara).

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