|
||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||||
Frequently Bought Together
Product Details
|
Product Description
Product Description
The first frost used to be the end of the vegetable gardening season but not anymore!In The Year-Round Vegetable Gardener, Nova Scotiabased 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 the ultimate challenge, are doable, affordable, and rewarding for gardeners in any location where frost has traditionally ended the growing season.Jabbour explains how to make every month a vegetable-gardening month. She provides in-depth instruction for all of her time-tested techniques, including selecting the best varieties for each season, mastering the art of succession planting, and maximizing the use of space throughout the year to increase production. She also offers complete instructions for making affordable protective structures that keep vegetables viable and delicious throughout the colder months.What could be more amazing than harvesting fresh greens in February? Jabbours proven, accessible methods make this dream possible for food gardeners everywhere.
From the Back Cover
Garden-Fresh Food Summer, Winter, and Every Time in BetweenMakeevery month a vegetable gardeningmonth with Niki Jabbour's proven techniques for year-round growing and harvesting. Begin byplanting your vegetables during the seasons they prefer -- tomatoes and peppers need summer sun and heat; asparagus and radishes thrive in cooler weather; and kale, lettuce, and scallions tolerate frost and come alive under winter sunshine. Apply Niki's intensive gardening methods and some affordable and easy-to-assemble protective structures,and your vegetable garden will reward you with fresh, delicious produce even on short, cold winter days.
Tags Customers Associate with This Product(What's this?)Click on a tag to find related items, discussions, and people.
|
What Other Items Do Customers Buy After Viewing This Item?
Customer Reviews
|
Share your thoughts with other customers:
|
||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Most helpful customer reviews
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
A veggie gardener's must-have,
By
This review is from: The Year-Round Vegetable Gardener: How to Grow Your Own Food 365 Days a Year, No Matter Where You Live (Paperback)
How-to, non-fiction books, while informative, are typically very mechanical and dry. But I LOVE Niki Jabbour's book! It's got a fun, easy writing style, and I actually sat down and read it cover to cover like a regular book. The descriptions of setting up a year-round garden are clear and simple, the photos are gorgeous, and I actually got hungry from the descriptions of individual veggies you can try out in your year-round garden. The book is brimming with the author's enthusiasm and knowledge, and even my husband(who is NOT a gardener) leafed through it a little and got so excited that he immediately went out in our yard and removed some trees to make more garden space so we can try the stuff in this book. I definitely recommend this book for any gardener who wishes the growing season was a little longer.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
Don't wait till spring: Garden year-round,
This review is from: The Year-Round Vegetable Gardener: How to Grow Your Own Food 365 Days a Year, No Matter Where You Live (Paperback)
NO GUFF VEGETABLE GARDENINGNiki Jabbour fell into the winter gardening idea kinda by accident. She was all done for the year when she noticed some still edible Corn Salad in her November garden. She tossed a row cover on it and kept right on harvesting and eating. Winter gardening works for Nikki.I told her I was a sceptic. She lives in a relatively warm zone 5-6. "How are all those poor zone 2-3 gardeners gonna do it I asked?" That's when she told me it was Minus 28 Celcius in Halifax last week. Ouch. Obviously at those temperatures when she was out gathering Kale it is frozen solid. No problem, says Jabbour, who is known to crumble and put the frozen extras away in the freezer for later use in soups and stews or give it frozen to her kids and call it Kale-cicles" - kind of a mother approved version of the always popular popsicle. Is Jabbour wildly creative? Yes. In her book she shares her Lebanese Mother-in-law's love of Endive (not the Belgium Endive - the real thing- page 142). She talks about not being handy but together with her husband she supported her row covers so they could support her plants after a heavy 2' deep wet Halifax snow (page 62). She is sympathetic with my woody dense carrots harvested yesterday - and suggests gently I should have tried Napoli carrots- a variety known to be sweet year round. Even with 30 years gardening experience I am always learning. I check my big supply of seeds just in from various suppliers. No Napoli's on order. Better order them before Steve beats me to it and orders them all. Beautiful Book: check Lovely descriptive full colour photos: check Good guides to getting started and making it work: check Buy Nikki's book if you want to stretch your season for vegetables beyond May 24-Sept 1. For some podcasts check out my blog: donnabalzer.blogspot.com. I am a skeptic no more.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
The Year-Round Vegetable Gardener: How to Grow Your Own Food 365 Days a Year, No Matter Where You Live,
Amazon Verified Purchase(What's this?)
This review is from: The Year-Round Vegetable Gardener: How to Grow Your Own Food 365 Days a Year, No Matter Where You Live (Paperback)
This is an excellent reference book for people in all climates, but especially for those who live in our more challenging Canadian Climate.Niki has worked hard to make it easy to read without "dumbing it down". It is well laid out with detailed information about most of the common vegetables and a few uncommon ones. The information on how to extend the growing season is also broken down into easy steps. The bottom line for growing vegetables for most of the year is growing the appropriate ones for the season and timing their seeding and planting times correctly. Well Done, Niki!
Share your thoughts with other customers: Create your own review
Want to see more reviews on this item?
|
Most recent customer reviews |
Listmania!
|
|
Look for similar items by category
Look for similar items by subject
Feedback
Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
|
