The Creative Vegetable Gardener by Kelly Smith Trimble

Author:Kelly Smith Trimble
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Storey Publishing, LLC
Published: 2022-11-11T15:43:40+00:00

After drying in the pod, these pink speckled cranberry beans can be stored for eating or for regrowing. To ease into seed saving, start with beans, the simplest seed to save. There are hundreds of varieties of heirloom beans, each with their own story.

Ancestral Seed Keepers

The most direct way that I connect with history and heritage through gardening is variety selection. Many varieties available and commonly grown in the United States can be traced back to origins elsewhere. There are French carrots and lettuces, Japanese cucumbers and radishes, Russian kales and garlics, English peas, Chinese cabbages and turnips, Italian broccolis and eggplants, Hungarian peppers, and more varieties from all these, and many other, places. A seed’s heritage comes through its story of being saved and passed down: where it originated, who saved it, and how it was kept alive generation after generation. Seek out varieties that were kept alive in the same region where you were raised or that originated in a part of the world where your ancestors originated or that you’ve traveled to and love.

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