Four-Season Harvest: Organic Vegetables from Your Home Garden All Year Long Author: Eliot Colman Barbara Damrosch Kathy Bray | Language: English | ISBN:
B005O1FXNE | Format: PDF
Four-Season Harvest: Organic Vegetables from Your Home Garden All Year Long Description
If you love the joys of eating home-garden vegetables but always thought those joys had to stop at theend of summer, this book is for you. Eliot Coleman introduces the surprising fact that most of the UnitedStates has more winter sunshine than the south of France. He shows how North American gardeners cansuccessfully use that sun to raise a wide variety of traditional winter vegetables in backyard cold frames andplastic-covered tunnel greenhouses without supplementary heat. Coleman expands upon his own experienceswith new ideas learned on a winter-vegetable pilgrimage across the ocean to the acknowledgedkingdom of vegetable cuisine, the southern part of France, which lies on the ??th parallel, the same latitudeas his farm in Maine.This story of sunshine, weather patterns, old limitations and expectations, and new realities is delightfullyinnovative in the best gardening tradition. Four-Season Harvest will have you feasting on fresh producefrom your garden all through the winter.
- File Size: 5628 KB
- Print Length: 236 pages
- Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing; Subsequent edition (February 29, 2012)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1890132276
- ISBN-13: 978-1890132279
- ASIN: B005O1FXNE
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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Eat fresh, home-grown vegetables year round? Eliminate canning and freezing? Do this all at low cost? Eliot Coleman does, you can, too, and here is the how. Coleman is a market gardener in Maine who may eat better than Bill Gates. He shows that sunlight and wind protection are more important that temperature--and, by the way, most of the U.S. gets more winter sunlight than Coleman's place. Inexpensive, unheated greenhouses that he calls tall tunnel houses--some say hoop houses--and cold frames protect from wind and keep snow off the veggies. Greenhouse comfort is more to benefit the gardener. The key is what and when to plant. Full info given for planting dates, construction details, sources of seeds, tools, greenhouses. Well illustrated. An essential guide for organic gourmands.
By GENE GERUE
I've built a few cold frames in north-eastern Massachusetts based on all the latest theories of maximizing and storing solar heat. They didn't work so well. Then I tried Eliott's simple cold-frame design and it was in every way superior! He's not making stuff up to sell a book, this is time-tested and personally tested advice from a master grower. This, and "The New Organic Grower" were my favorite books before I moved South.
By Glen K. Peterson
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