The Complete Guide to Saving Seeds

WELCOME TO THE DYNAMIC and wonderful world of seeds. Nature has excelled at saving seeds for millions of years, but improving upon natural systems is part of human nature. We have done well by probing the mysteries of seeds, learning how to harvest and store them and coax them to germinate and grow abundantly to suit our needs. A bit more than 10,000 years ago, humankind learned that saving seeds and planting them in specially prepared gardens meant that we no longer had to wander through muddy slime in warm Mediterranean swamps to gather celery, nor did we have to stalk wild cabbages along the cold and windy Baltic coast.