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The Year Round Vegetable Garden: How To Grow Your Own Food 365 Days A Year, No Matter Where You Live
The first frost used to be the end of the vegetable gardening season -- but not anymore! In "The Year-Round Vegetable Gardener," Nova Scotia-based gardener and writer Niki Jabbour shares her secrets for growing food during every month of the year. Her season-defying techniques, developed in her own home garden where short summers and low levels of winter sunlight create th...more
Paperback, 256 pages
Published
December 14th 2011
by Storey Publishing
(first published 2011)
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My dear friend, Sherri, picked this book out for herself, and I mooched off of her suggestion and got one for myself. I've always wanted to have a vegetable garden, but I don't have any experience. I don't know where to start, and I don't know how to proceed. This book was like living with a professional gardener for a year. It is so easy to read and well laid out. There are lots of pictures and clear explanations. Whether you're doing a year-round garden or not, this book is a terrific resource...more
This book is focused on extending the gardening season. A great resource on explaining how to use row covers, mini hoop tunnels, cold-frames, etc. Also very helpful in explaining which vegetables to grow early and late to extend the season (even through the winter if one is careful). I have already made a list of things to try as fall approaches - hopefully I will have some garden goodness well into the first snows of the year.
Great book for learning about cold season technique. The author has included plans for a few year round growing friendly gardens as well as some tunnels and cold boxes. Since I already know what vegetables I am going to be using for the most part I didn't get much use out of the vegetable and herb information provided in later chapters. However, for beginning gardeners they are great introductions to a wide variety of garden fare.
This book is fantastic! I love that it has an "encyclopedia" of common vegetables and what season they grow best in and when is best to plant them. Lots of really great information for anyone starting to grow their own food or looking to venture in to winter gardening.
I checked this out from the library three times and finally ended up just buying it. That's how much I like it.
Also, I've already built a hoop house, thanks to this book. I don't know, yet, if it works, but I made it and that makes me happy.
Also, I've already built a hoop house, thanks to this book. I don't know, yet, if it works, but I made it and that makes me happy.
This book has taught me sooo much about gardening in general but has allowed me to understand how to grow my own food, year round, in our garden or containers!
Everyone should read this excellent book!
Everyone should read this excellent book!
I loved the writing style because it is like your sister or friend telling you how to be successful growing and harvesting fresh veggies all winter. Inspirational if you have never done this before.
Can't read this fast enough. There are so many good points that I have had to resort to writing them down in my garden journal.
Pretty cool. I will be implementing a few of these recommendations to extend my own growing season!
Moved information book I ever "skimmed" on vegetable gardening. Really very informative! Great book to own for gardening!
This is an easy to follow book for anyone interested in vegetable gardening. It explained 3 different techiniques to extend a garden anywhere by at least a few weeks on either side of the season if you don't want to go all out for the entire year.
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