Heirloom Vegetable Gardening - A Master Gardener's Guide to Planting, Seed Saving and Cultural History

There's only one reason needed to try growing heirloom vegetables - Taste. There are thousands of heirloom vegetable varieties available for the home vegetable garden. Heirlooms vegetables became heirlooms because people prized them enough to save seeds. You won't find many of these varieties in your grocery store because they weren't developed for mass production or storage. That's all the more reason to make room for growing some heirloom vegetables in your own vegetable garden.

First published in 1997, this remarkable book is the first comprehensive book on heirloom gardening. Weaver profiles 280 heirloom varieties, providing authoritative history, growing advice, old-fashioned recipes and seed saving directions.