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R Ranson wrote:Propagation Handbook by Geoff Bryant is probably the book you're looking for. It covers the basics of plant propagation and has useful tables on what works well fro which plants and when. The book is deceptively small, but overflowing with information. I have yet to find a better book on the topic. I thought it has a bias towards edible and temperate plants, but looking at this book now, I realize it was simply my area of interest, and the book covers a much broader range. Bryant does, however, use the botanical names for plants, so it needs a companion book to help you identify the scientific name of the plant.
As you're seeking affordable books, I hesitate to recommend Edible Forest Garden two book set; however, my local library has it and yours might too. If not, they can probably get it by interlibrary loan.
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Do you know of any good companions to the first book you mention?
Travis Schultz wrote:Does the Geoff Bryant book contain information beyond seed starting? The reviews all mention the seeds, which I really need to know more about the cuttings, clones, rootings, and most importantly when to take them, and the species specifics of what time of year to take said cuttings and such. I really do not need to spend my time learning more about seed starting or annuals, lately I have been studying plant biology and plant cell chemistry etc, I am at the point in my journey that I need to start gathering cuttings and starting trees from the many local edible cultivars growing wild or semi-wild in my area before I buy land and start the regenerative process on my new property. This will be in 2 years from now if the land pops up, and I have a dozen or so different berries and fruits growing around the property I am on right now, which I really need to start cultivating while I have the time.
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R Ranson wrote:
Travis Schultz wrote:Does the Geoff Bryant book contain information beyond seed starting? The reviews all mention the seeds, which I really need to know more about the cuttings, clones, rootings, and most importantly when to take them, and the species specifics of what time of year to take said cuttings and such. I really do not need to spend my time learning more about seed starting or annuals, lately I have been studying plant biology and plant cell chemistry etc, I am at the point in my journey that I need to start gathering cuttings and starting trees from the many local edible cultivars growing wild or semi-wild in my area before I buy land and start the regenerative process on my new property. This will be in 2 years from now if the land pops up, and I have a dozen or so different berries and fruits growing around the property I am on right now, which I really need to start cultivating while I have the time.
I'm trying to rack my brain to see if it includes seed starting. I think it does.
From my memory: the book includes hardwood and softwood cuttings, division propagation, leaf cuttings, something with a bulb where we cut it a special way and it makes half a dozen or more plants from a single bulb, air layering, that thing where you bend the branch and put it in the soil and it roots then you cut it off the main plant, a bit about cold frames and soil, pests and diseases, and something else which is probably about seeds... but then again, I think that seeds played a very minor part in the book.
The book is dry, I warn you, so it won't match everyone's style of learning. What it lacks in style, it makes up for easy to find information.
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Travis Schultz wrote:
That website is awesome, that website saves me a lot of books. The reason a book like that would be nice is because I live off grid and get internet once in awhile.
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Travis Schultz wrote:Please help me here, I need a couple definitive affordable books on TEMPERATE CLIMATE forest gardening species....
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