Year-Round Vegetable Gardening

Four seasons of vegetable gardening sounds like a gardener’s dream come true. Niki Jabbour proves it’s possible in her new book, “The Year-Round Vegetable Gardener.”

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alternatively of spending winter wish well for leaping , get alfresco and bulge out harvest home . That ’s the advice in Niki Jabbour ’s new Scripture , “ The Year - Round Vegetable Gardener ” ( Storey Publishing , 2011 , $ 19.95 ) . The Good Book promise tips for get nutrient 365 days a year — no matter where you live .

In spring , she advocate cold frame and mini - hoop tunnels , her summer point mean earlier harvesting of warm - weather crops , gloaming is full of succession planting to go forward the harvest , and then there ’s wintertime .

Niki ’s wintertime gardeningtips are simple and straightforward . Gardeners can really garden by using row covers , cloche and hot caps , cold frames , mini hoop burrow , and unheated glasshouse and polytunnels .

Before you say , ‘ That would never work in my clime ’ , keep in mind that Niki garden near Halifax , Nova Scotia .

She explain her experiment with wintertime gardening all started by tossing a dustup cover over a bed of argula in October and enjoying the super acid through December .

perverse to what gardeners may think , cold - time of year horticulture involves less maintenance than summer vegetable horticulture .

“ You do n’t have to pee , fight bug , or gage . I think of our winter cold shape as in - ground refrigerators that protect and hold our crops until we ’re ready to eat them , ” she indite .

“ The Year - Round Vegetable Gardener ” is a first - form resource for nurseryman at any stage . The color photos and friendly tone of the book invite begin vegetable gardener to stretch their green thumbs . At the same time , seasoned gardeners will learn a few newfangled tricks , too .

The al-Qur’an helps gardeners understand how to maximise shifting sun , interplant to make the most of uncommitted space and make simple basketball hoop houses , cold frame and unconventional cloche . Cloches are cover used to protect individual plants and can include bell - form glass jars , charge card juice bottles , soda bottle , glass jounce , milk jug and even plastic salad containers .

One of the keys to successfulyear - round of drinks gardeningis selecting the veracious plant for the garden . The book admit information on more than 50 vegetables and herbs — include specific myopic - time of year , “ Niki ’s Picks ” varieties .

Equally impressive to the book itself , is that Roger Doiron , beginner of Kitchen Gardeners International , wrote the foreward . He writes , “ extend the growing season is one of the easiest ways to increase productivity in the garden . We ca n’t make up a young planet , but we can and must get word to use the resources of the current one more creatively . ”

Even if that include clearing nose candy from the garden path and harvesting a winter salad for supper .

( Storey Publishing provided me with a free review copy of “ The Year - Round Vegetable Gardener . ” )

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