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• The Triumph of Seeds

  How Grains, Nuts, Kernels, Pulses, and Pips, Conquered the Plant Kingdom and Shaped Human History

  Hanson, Thor,

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  Curious about the backstory of that seed in your hand? Thor Hanson's award-winning book offers a wonderful cultural and scientific history of seeds.

• Seedswap

  the Gardener's Guide to Saving and Swapping Seeds

  Jeffery, Josie

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  Though we are not seed swapping at LPL, this book provides background information on seed libraries and how they benefit the community. This book is ideal if you want to learn more about how seed libraries work.

• Planting Guide from High Mowing Seeds

  View on highmowingseeds.com

  This seed planting guide offers a handy heads-up about the best planting times for a wide variety of veggie seeds.

• Average Frost Dates

  View on farmersalmanac.com

  Knowing the average first and last frost dates for your area is vital to seed planting success.

• Baker Creek Heirloom Seed Planting Guide

  View on rareseeds.com

  Need some general tips for successful seed starting? Check out this seed planting guide!

• Starting Seeds

  How to Grow Healthy, Productive Vegetables, Herbs, and Flowers From Seed

  Ellis, Barbara W.

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  From prepping your garden to sowing seeds, this book will walk you from the prep work to transplanting seedlings into a garden.

• Seed to Seed

  Seed Saving and Growing Techniques for Vegetable Gardeners

  Ashworth, Suzanne

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  Packed with a lot of information about Vegetables. This book is broken down by major plant families, and includes background information on plants and regional growing recommendations.

• Vegetable Gardening

  From Planting to Picking : the Complete Guide to Creating a Bountiful Garden

  Bradley, Fern Marshall

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  Are you interested in growing vegetables in an organic garden? Or maybe not? This book is for you. It will walk you through planting to pick in your organic, or not, garden.

• The Flowering Garden

  Choosing and Growing Glorious Flowers for Every Season

  Mikolajski, Andrew

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  From Perennials to Alpines, Bulbs to Roses, this book will walk you through planting and cultivating different types of flowers.

• Herb Gardening From the Ground Up

  Everything You Need to Know to Grow Your Favorite Herbs

  Gilbertie, Sal

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  This book not only helps you get started with planting your herb garden, but offers a variety of layouts for your herb garden.

• Seeds

  Time Capsules of Life

  Kesseler, Rob

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  Art and science are combined to make this beautiful book on the life cycle of seeds.