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The Organic Seed Grower: A Farmer's Guide to Vegetable Seed Production by John Navazio, 388 pages. If you are thinking of making a living growing seeds, buy this book. John Navazio is both the Senior Scientist for the Organic Seed Alliance and a Plant Breeding and Seed Specialist for Washington State University Exte...
The Organic Seed Grower: A Farmer's Guide to Vegetable Seed Production by John Navazio, 388 pages. If you are thinking of making a living growing seeds, buy this book. John Navazio is both the Senior Scientist for the Organic Seed Alliance and a Plant Breeding and Seed Specialist for Washington State University Extension.
After an informative historical and botanical introduction in Part I, the book thoroughly explains the seed growing fundamentals and considerations for each of the major vegetable families. John’s many years of plant breeding and teaching show as he describes family’s reproductive biology, life cycle, climate adaptation and isolation. Then he dives into each crop group within the family including seed production practices: soil and fertility requirements, growing seed, seed harvesting, cleaning, genetic maintenance and isolation.
Part III covers Isolation for variety integrity, adequate population size, seed crop climates, seed diseases and stock seed basics. One of the benefits of the book is it helps a new seed farmer identify which seed crop groups are most practical for a grower’s climate and practices. I think I made almost 200 book marks in my copy. Seed growers read cover-to-cover then return to as a reference.
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After an informative historical and botanical introduction in Part I, the book thoroughly explains the seed growing fundamentals and considerations for each of the major vegetable families. John’s many years of plant breeding and teaching show as he describes family’s reproductive biology, life cycle, climate adaptation and isolation. Then he dives into each crop group within the family including seed production practices: soil and fertility requirements, growing seed, seed harvesting, cleaning, genetic maintenance and isolation.
Part III covers Isolation for variety integrity, adequate population size, seed crop climates, seed diseases and stock seed basics. One of the benefits of the book is it helps a new seed farmer identify which seed crop groups are most practical for a grower’s climate and practices. I think I made almost 200 book marks in my copy. Seed growers read cover-to-cover then return to as a reference.
Thank you for buying your book here to support our work.
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