Burpee Seed Starter: A Guide to Growing Flower, Vegetable, and Herb Seeds Indoors and Outdoors [Paperback]

Maureen Heffernan (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0028610024 | ISBN-13: 978-0028610023 | Publication Date: February 12, 1997 | Edition: 1

Burpee Seed Starter includes: a detailed plant encyclopedia - profiling 300 of the best annuals, perennials, vegetables, and herbs - listing all the basic growing needs of the plant, including soil in light needs. Complete and up-to-date information on sowing indoors and outdoors, fertilizing, watering, thinning, transplanting, troubleshooting, and much more. Special tips scattered throughout on purchasing seed, seed viability, and different equipment available to help the home-gardener plant seed. Extensive appendices including information on average first and last frost dates, indoor/outdoor planting guides, the most popular vegetable and herb planting charts, seeds that need light to germinate, and additional information sources. More than 140 full-color photographs, including vintage Burpee illustrations, and more than 50 informative black-and-white line drawings.

Product Details

• Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons; 1 edition (February 12, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0028610024
• ISBN-13: 978-0028610023
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7.3 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #363,615 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent guide to staring seeds, October 22, 1997

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This review is from: Burpee Seed Starter: A Guide to Growing Flower, Vegetable, and Herb Seeds Indoors and Outdoors (Paperback)

Every thing you need to know about starting plants from seed. This book is an encyclopedia listing hundreds of plants, with many pictures. Detailed information about starting each from seeds. Before you buy seeds, get this book.

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Very useful though not exhaustive, November 11, 2001

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Lisa Wagner (Portland, OR USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Burpee Seed Starter: A Guide to Growing Flower, Vegetable, and Herb Seeds Indoors and Outdoors (Paperback)

This is the first book I've found that specializes in growing from seed. It gives some good advice on equipment, and some good insights into procedure. It is published by Burpee and somewhat biased toward Burpee products. A few of the charts in the appendix are indespensible -- such as first- and last-frost dates by city, and recommended seed-starting and planting times for vegetables. Unfortunately there is not also such a list for flowers and seed-fruit, but it is a good starting place. It should also be noted that 155 of the books 256 pages are spent on a plant-by-plant index that provides information similar to that provided in other garden books, only scewed slightly towards growing from seed. So less than half the book is really focused on seed-starting.

18 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars one of two manditory books for gardeners, February 17, 1999

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Paul Galioni (Susanville/Nevada City, California) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Burpee Seed Starter: A Guide to Growing Flower, Vegetable, and Herb Seeds Indoors and Outdoors (Paperback)

One of two mandatory books for gardeners who can't afford the $200 Ortho book. First comes Sunset's Western Garden Book and then comes this Burpee seed book - ever wonder how come those Dogwood never seem to germinate - or how come Trillium, despite your twenty years of trying, just seem to lie there mocking you? This book explains all those arcane secrets that seem to defy any logic you can come up with.