Product Description: In the Seed-Starter's handbook, you'll find the botanical facts about the nature of seed, germination, the needs of growing plants, pollination, and seed formation. But more important, you'll find the practical realities of sowing seeds indoors and out, transplanting, caring for tender young plants, warding off frost, diseases, insects, and animal pests. You'll discover how you can harvest seed from your garden plants for use in next year's garden. You'll find step-by-step directions for starting varieties of nearly 60 different vegetables from seed, and matching directions for collecting and storing seeds from those plants.