A delightful book extolling the virtues of collecting your own seeds. It explains clearly the different and most effective ways to start, grow and save seeds. There are plenty of tips for collecting from a variety of fruit, vegetables, flowers and herbs. A detailed and useful book for anyone keen to sow and grow seeds, with plenty of photos to complement it. Thank you to Net Galley for an ARC.

This was a really good guide to seed saving, and how it can benefit you as a gardener, or beginner interested in starting a garden. It explains the process of how seeds start, how they can fail, and what to do to ensure their survival. I liked the cheap home tips for setting up affordable lights for germination, and the recipe for good home made seed starting dirt. There is a helpful guide to some of the most common fruits, veggies, herbs and flowers in the end of the book with specific growing guides and what each seed needs. Someone well versed in seed selection and planting will probably find this book a bit boring and unnecessary, but it offers good tips for those starting out. Someone like my mom who always saves whole flower heads in zip lock bags only to find them moldy later will find this helpful. I would have liked to see more on the storage of seeds myself and how to extract some of the stranger types of seed, but for an introduction on the subject, it does a good job.

This book is a lifesaver for everyone who loves gardening or makes first steps in this area. The book in itself looks great with photos and step by step tutorials. i think is one of the most useful books about growning your own food that I have seen in a while. I highly recommend it!

What an adorable book - good range of seeds to save, most excellent photos throughout that also make this a good book for gardeners to flip through, as well as a great encyclopedia on seed saving.