If you are serious about saving seeds in Subsistence Gardening quintiles or have an eye out toward a TEOTWAWKI side line, you will want this booklet. It has information you will not find from other elsewhere.
Booklet 13: Growing To Seed
Peter Donelan, Booklet 13, revised 1999, 45 pp.
Ecology Action Research Booklet 13
How to grow all your own seed in the smallest possible area in your own backyard. Maintain optimum health and genetic diversity in your seed stock! Includes information on vegetables, grains, cover crops, seed exchanges, and seed co-operatives, plus a bibliography. Essential tables on crops and their seed-saving characteristics.
They have a chart that lists crops : pollination type, pollination distance, viability of seeds, germination%, reproductive factor (area in sq.ft needed to produce 100 sq. ft of crop), minimum number of plants for pollination to genetically viable seed, yield (in oz.) from a minimum number of plants, seeds needed for 100 sq. ft., and more.
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