Guidelines / Protocols |
Super Easy |
Seed Class |
Free Seed Saving Booklets
- Adaptive Seeds has a great seed saving booklet you can download for free.
- Organic Seed Alliance has a free seed saving book that is downloadable.
How to Save Seeds
- SF Bay Area Planting Times Chart - a colorful reference to help you plant your garden and learn about seed saving requirements created by our sister library BASIL.
- Seed Savers Exchange - The Seed Savers has a number of resources on seed saving. They also have excellent videos on their YouTube channel. While your at it become a member of Seed Savers Exchange and get access to thousands of varieties of vegetables, including unusual and rare varieties.
- Seed Saving Chart - easy reference chart of plants by cycles, type of pollination, length of seed viability
Visit our page on what type of seeds you should borrow based on your level of experience and commitment to learning.
Videos
Seed Saving with Bill Merrill - Part 1
Seed Saving with Bill Merrill - Part 2
Seed Saving with Bill Merrill - Part 3
How to Save Beans and Peas
How to Save Lettuce and Sunflowers
How to Save Tomatoes, Pepper, & Eggplants
Seed Saving with Bill Merrill - Part 2
Seed Saving with Bill Merrill - Part 3
How to Save Beans and Peas
How to Save Lettuce and Sunflowers
How to Save Tomatoes, Pepper, & Eggplants
Recommended Books
- The Seed Garden by Seed Savers Exchange - the most comprehensive book on saving vegetable seeds and beautiful enough for a coffee table display
- Seed to Seed by Suzanne Ashworth - very comprehensive, reference book
- Breed Your Own Vegetable Varieties: The Gardener's and Farmer's Guide to Plant Breeding and Seed Saving by Carol Deppe (Check out her latest book, The Resilient Gardener)
- The New Seed-Starters Handbook by Nancy Bubel - great for beginners and more experienced gardeners
- Saving Seeds As If Our Lives Depended On It by Dan Jason available at SaltSpringSeeds.com