Heirloom Vegetables: A Home Gardener's Guide to Finding and Growing Vegetables from the Past

Sue Stickland,Kent Whealy

ISBN 10: 0684838079 / ISBN 13: 9780684838076

Published by Fireside, 1998

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Heirloom Vegetables: A Home Gardener's Guide to Finding and Growing Vegetables from the Past
• Publisher: Fireside
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0684838079
• ISBN 13: 9780684838076
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

Discusses the history of more than 350 heirloom varieties of vegetables and offers tips on how best to seed, grow, and harvest them

Reviews

Before the not-so-future designer gene banks for humans are established now come the very real repositories for seeds of vegetables, flowers, and herbs. Stickland, along with consultant Whealy (one of the founders of Seed Savers Exchange), proffers a much-needed introduction for gardeners and chefs who realize that variety is more than just the spice of life. Here is the rationale for preserving vegetable beginnings--and the penalty for not doing so; in the space of 10 years, the authors estimate, more than two-thirds of nonhybrid vegetable varieties disappeared from popular catalogs. Add to the proselytizing some true, hard data: a discussion of corporate involvement, breeding trends, and legal and illegal sproutings, among other topics. Yet an even more functional resource follows: a directory--complete with description, germination time, cultivation, best use, and suppliers--that could easily go solo as a welcomed reference. Barbara Jacobs