Four-Season Harvest: Organic Vegetables from Your Home Garden All Year Long
Selected Book Details
- Paperback
- Author: Eliot Coleman, Barbara Damrosch
- Artist: Kathy Bray
- Publisher: Chelsea Green
- Release Date: October 1999
- ISBN-10: 1890132276
- ISBN-13: 9781890132279
- List Price: $24.95
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Summaries and Customer Reviews provided by Amazon
SummaryIf 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 American gardeners can successfully use that sun to raise a wide variety of traditional winter vegetables in backyard cold frames and plastic covered tunnel greenhouses without supplementary heat. Coleman expands upon his own experiences with new ideas learned on a winter-vegetable pilgrimage across the ocean to the acknowledged kingdom of vegetable cuisine, the southern part of France, which lies on the 44th parallel, the same latitude as his farm in Maine. |
Customer Reviews
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gardening all year around
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The "Four Season Harvest: Organic Vegetables from Your Home Garden All Year Long" book is a great book for people living in the North East who want to garden even in the winter months. Eliot Coleman does a fabulous and inspirational job of showing step-by-step how to. Everything from building cold frames, to compost, to types of lettuces. Very, very good book for all cold-weather living people, who love their own garden food. Eliot Coleman is a genius.
Vegetables all year
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This book is just what I was looking for. It has excellent information on extending the growing season with simple directions. It is laid out well and the sharing of personal tidbits on how they started growing all season is interesting and insightful.
It's okay, but it is too general
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This book is a general overview on how this guy runs his high-production, high-cost garden. No details are given on how the average Joe can build or buy the stuff. The wife and I were pretty disappointed. I learned nothing from this book and fell back on the intial plan: build a big quality greenhouse.
A little disappointed
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The book is very helpful when it comes to thinking about winter gardening but I think the average person will not have access to a huge portable greenhouse to accomplish this.
Genuinely useful techniques for extending the garden season
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Here in Minnesota I was unsure if such simple greenhouses, unheated flexible plastic, would work year-round. I have probably been too conservative and have just been extending the crops, planting much earlier in the Spring, and keeping summer plants (and a small Fall planting) going into the Autumn. Simple ideas and well-thought through. Everything in the book has been tested year after year with excellent results. Truly inspiring!
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