New PDF release: Gardening with Heirloom Seeds: Tried-and-True Flowers,

By Lynn Coulter

Heirloom seeds are greater than the promise of subsequent summer's crookneck squash or jewel-colored zinnias. they're residing antiques passed down from one iteration to the following, a wealthy inheritance of style and wonder from in the past and, usually, far-off. they're occasionally greater tailored to pests and cruel stipulations than many glossy kinds and sometimes easily odor or flavor larger. Gardening with Heirloom Seeds serves as a source for gardeners, chefs, and plant fanatics of all degrees of workmanship who need to know extra approximately discovering, sharing, and propagating the seeds of heirloom vegetation, end result, and greens.

In those fantastically illustrated pages, Lynn Coulter describes fifty precious heirloom species, from Frenchman's Darling, a flowering herb whose seeds have been pocketed by means of Napoleon Bonaparte whilst he invaded Egypt in 1798, to Snow White beets, an outdated Dutch favourite that won't stain the cook's hands purple. lots of the vegetation incorporated the following will develop all around the usa; a number of are most fitted for hotter climates.

The textual content is sprinkled all through with sensible recommendation from heirloom gardeners and lists resources for locating the seeds of many aged types. since it additionally offers plentiful room for making notes, Gardening with Heirloom Seeds can be utilized 12 months after 12 months and will turn into an heirloom in its personal right--a own magazine to cross alongside to the following iteration of gardeners.

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