Breed Your Own Vegetable Varieties: Popbeans, Purple Peas, and Other Innovations from the Backyard Garden

by Carol Deppe

A guide to creating unique varieties of vegetables through select breeding presents basic genetic information in easy-to-understand terms and step-by-step instructions. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0316181048
• ISBN13: 9780316181044
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: Little Brown and Company
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.5" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Science, encouragement, and entertainment

Delightful! Deppe is a trained geneticist, and explains what equations are likely to govern the inheritance of vegetable traits. First and last, though, she describes vegetable breeding successes and failures - some have made it into your seed catalogues, some just make one neighborhood happy.Breeding vegetables to thrive in your climate and on your palate suddenly sounds possible - given patience - and like a great way to increase, not just preserve, diversity of food crops.