About this title: This instructional manual explains how to create an abundant garden in a cool climate throughout the year. Author and noted plant expert Eliot Coleman explains, step by step, how garden devotees can take their outdoor summer gardens through the dead of winter without a lot of extra effort and with a few wise choices. The author, who states an aversion to overly expensive, labor-intensive solutions, suggests methods such as successive seed sowing at regular intervals throughout the warmer months, and using simple, unheated boxes filled with 30 or more cold-loving greens that can thrive in ...
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Chelsea Green Pub Co
Date Published: 1999
ISBN-13:9781890132279ISBN:1890132276
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Chelsea Green Pub Co
Date Published: 1999-10-01
ISBN-13:9781890132279ISBN:1890132276
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Edition: Revised ed. Illustrated.
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing Company
Date Published: 1999
ISBN-13:9781890132279ISBN:1890132276
Description: Bray, Kathy. New. No dust jacket as issued. Brand New! Support Radical Independent Pacific Northwest Booksellers! Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 212 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. If you love the joys of eating home-garden vegetables but always thought those joys had to stop at the end of summer, this book is for you. Eliot Coleman introduces the surprising fact that most of the United States has more winter sunshine than the south of France. He shows how North ... read more
""Turning a one-season into a four-season garden invokes those those marvelous human beings we all have been fortunate to know in our lives who, even in old age, keep themselves spiritually young. It is obvious why they are such refreshing company; they never stop participating, learning, producing, and contributing. That is exactly the spirit represented by the four-season garden." PG. 12"
"Loaded with information and ideas on having a home garden that produces year round. I breezed through it, especially noting the chapter on making cold frames. I will definitely pick up again when I have the space/time to devote to getting a year-round garden started!"
"This book has inspired me to grow salad greens all winter long. I learned so much. I would highly reccommend it to anyone wanting to learn how to extend their harvest no matter what climate they live in."
"Elliot and Barbara harvest cool season crops that are grown under protection all through the winter months. They travelled through France, along the same 44th parallel that passes through their farm in Maine, to explore France's wintergardening tradition and practice. The trip confirmed for them that the angle of the sun is more important than climate to growing in the winter.
Elliot describes which crops succeed in freezing temperatures and which actually improve in flavor in winter. He describes different kinds and degrees of protection, from a simple floating row cover over wickets(which I will try here in zone 6) to row covers used under a large hoop or greenhouse. Instructions for constructing hoophouses and coldframes are straightforward and usable. His approach is very low-tech and simple--no artificial heat or light is involved. This was a terrific read, and I am now looking forward to harvesting the greens and roots of winter as much as I look forward to the first tomatoes of summer."
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