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    Starting Seeds: How to Grow Healthy, Productive Vegetables, Herbs, and Flowers from Seed. A Storey BASICS® Title

    Starting Seeds: How to Grow Healthy, Productive Vegetables, Herbs, and Flowers from Seed. A Storey BASICS® Title

    by Barbara W. Ellis

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      ISBN-13: 9781603428507
    • Publisher: Storey Books
    • Publication date: 01/16/2013
    • Series: Storey Basics
    • Sold by: Barnes & Noble
    • Format: eBook
    • Pages: 128
    • Sales rank: 339,465
    • File size: 5 MB

    Barbara Ellis is an experienced and knowledgeable gardener and former Rodale editor. She has several books to her credit, including Covering Ground, The Veggie Gardener’s Answer Book, Deckscaping, and Shady Retreats. She lives in Kent County, Maryland.

    Table of Contents

    The Magic of Seeds


    Part 1: Getting Started

    What Do You Want to Grow?

    Get to Know Your Garden

    Seed Savvy

    How Many Packets?

    Germination 101

    Set Up a Sowing Schedule

    Seed-Grower's Problem Solver

    Saving and Storing Secrets

     

    Part 2: Starting Seeds Indoors

    Gather Your Gear

    Sowing Your Seed

    Special-Needs Seeds

    From Seeds to Seedlings

    Potting On

    Perennials from Seed

    Moving Plants to Your Garden

    Care after Planting

     

    Part 3: Sowing Seeds Outdoors

    Getting Your Garden Ready for Seeds

    Spacing: Beds, Rows, or Broadcasting?

    Sowing in the Flower Garden

    Caring for Seeds and Seedlings

     

    Resources and Links

    Index

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    Growing plants from seeds isn’t difficult; it just takes a little know-how. Now, gardeners of any experience level can get a jump on the growing season with this concise, straightforward guide. Expert gardener Barbara Ellis provides the basic information that you need and teaches you foolproof starting techniques for a variety of vegetables, herbs, and flowers.

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    Publishers Weekly
    Consider the seed. A single seed, no matter the size, carries all the needed building blocks to become, say, a towering beech tree. The trick is helping it along. Ellis (The Veggie Gardener’s Answer Book) takes the project in hand and with meticulous, sometimes excruciating, detail, leads the reader step-by-step through ways to place the seed in the dirt and then coax it into reaching its potential as full-fledged food and/or astonishing garden beauty. From tending to those fussy “special-needs seeds” by means of a helpful lesson on the necessity for stratification, to calculating the optimal watering strategy (soaker hoses are the vegetable gardener’s best friend), Ellis enables even the hopeful beginner to plan the garden, implement it from seed, and then behold the glory: seeing the magic unfold when, with proper care and the work of one’s own hands, the little speck of DNA-packed life rises from the ground in beauty, vitality, and wonder. (Jan.)
    From the Publisher

    A fantastic resource for starting plants from seeds.

    A step-by-step guide with simple but descriptive drawings, Starting Seeds should help the gardener from the moment the seed envelope is ripped open to setting out the young plants.

    Charlotte Observer

    This book, part of the Storey Basics series, contains a treasure trove of information about starting plants from seeds in a book that is small enough to fit in a pocket.

    Akron Beacon Journal
    Starting Seeds is a basic guide to growing plants from seed, whether they’re started indoors or out.
    San Francisco Book Review
    Agreat how-to resource for self-reliance.
    Portland Book Review

    Starting Seeds is a basic guide to growing plants from seed, whether they’re started indoors or out.

    Tulsa Book Review

    Agreat how-to resource for self-reliance.

    Akron Beacon Journal - Mary Beth Breckenridge
    Starting Seeds is a basic guide to growing plants from seed, whether they're started indoors or out.
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