Plant Propagation and Grafting: Books

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Offers growing instructions for 68 plants in four broad categories ― vegetables; fruits and nuts; herbs and spices; and even more exotic plants. Every featured plant can be grown in a kitchen, making this handy guide a must-have for avid gardeners and apartment-dwellers alike.

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Grow more than 200 varieties of tomatoes--from sowing seeds and planting to cultivating and collecting seeds at the end of the season. Includes a comprehensive guide to the various pests and diseases of tomatoes and explains how best to avoid them.

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Weaver focuses on 280 varieties of 37 vegetables in this encyclopedic guide to the history and cultivation of some of America's most treasured heirloom vegetables. 100+ color photos. 240 line drawings.

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For people who love gardens, propagation—the practice of growing whatever you want, whenever you want—is gardening itself. Druse, one of America’s foremost gardening authorities, presents innovative, practical techniques for expanding any plant collection, along with more than 500 photographs. Based on years of personal research, this is a practical manual as well as a beautiful garden book, presenting procedures Ken Druse has tested and adapted, as well as photographed step by step.

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You’ll learn how to set achievable goals in your breeding program; the ins and outs of genetics (in non-technical language!); how to pick the best parent plants; how to cross-pollinate; the best techniques to use for popular vegetables and flowers; and how to harvest and store seed. In no time at all, you’ll be producing a tastier tomato, a perkier pepper, or a more ravishing rose!

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Kingsbury traces the history of human attempts to make plants more reliable, productive, and nutritious—a story that owes as much to accident and error as to innovation and experiment.

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Many people want to grow fruit on a small scale but lack the insight to be successful orchardists. Growing tree fruits and berries is something virtually anyone with space and passionate desire can do - given wise guidance and a personal commitment to observe the teachings of the trees