In this guide, Nova Scotia-based gardener and writer Jabbour shares her secrets for growing food during every month of the year. Her season-defying techniques are doable, affordable, and rewarding for gardeners in any location where frost has traditionally ended the growing season. Stretch the gardening season with intensive planting techniques, cold-weather care tips, and vegetable varieties picked for flavor and growing success. Even in winter’s coldest months you can harvest fresh, delicious produce. Drawing on insights gained from years of growing vegetables in Nova Scotia, Niki Jabbour…mehr
In this guide, Nova Scotia-based gardener and writer Jabbour shares her secrets for growing food during every month of the year. Her season-defying techniques are doable, affordable, and rewarding for gardeners in any location where frost has traditionally ended the growing season.Stretch the gardening season with intensive planting techniques, cold-weather care tips, and vegetable varieties picked for flavor and growing success. Even in winter’s coldest months you can harvest fresh, delicious produce. Drawing on insights gained from years of growing vegetables in Nova Scotia, Niki Jabbour shares her simple techniques for gardening throughout the year. Learn how to select the best varieties for each season, the art of succession planting, and how to build inexpensive structures to protect your crops from the elements. No matter where you live, you’ll soon enjoy a thriving vegetable garden year-round.
Niki Jabbour is the award-winning author of Growing Under Cover, Niki Jabbour’s Veggie Garden Remix, The Year-Round Vegetable Gardener, and Groundbreaking Food Gardens. Her work is found in Fine Gardening, Garden Making, Birds & Blooms, Horticulture, and other publications, and she speaks widely on food gardening at events and shows across North America. She has been a radio host since 2006. She lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and can be found online at SavvyGardening.com. Award-winning photographer Joseph De Sciose is an award-winning photographer whose work has appeared in numerous books and magazines, including The New York Times Magazine, Country Living Gardener, House & Garden, and Country Home.
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Foreword Introduction Part 1: Stretching the Growing Seasons Chapter 1: Getting the Timing Right Chapter 2: Intensive Planting Chapter 3: Growing into Winter Chapter 4: Designing Productive Gardens Part 2: Growing the Right Crops Chapter 5: Year-Round Vegetables Arugula Asparagus Beans Beets Broccoli Broccoli Raab Brussels Sprouts Cabbage Carrots Cauliflower Celery & Celeriac Claytonia Collards Corn Cucumbers Eggplant Endive Garlic Kale Kohlrabi Leeks Lettuce Mache Melons Mibuna Mizuna Mustard Onions Pak Choi Parsnips Peas Peppers Potatoes Radishes Rutabagas Spinach Summer Squash Sweet Potatoes Swiss Chard Tatsoi Tomatoes Turnips Winter Squash Chapter 6: Herbs Basil Chervil Chives Cilantro Dill Greek Oregano Parsley Rosemary Sage Thyme Appendixes Building Dany's Cold Frame Succession Planting and Interplanting Charts Resources Index
