The Winter Harvest Handbook: Year Round Vegetable Production Using Deep-Organic Techniques and Unheated Greenhouses

by Eliot Coleman

Paperback, 2009

Status

Available

Call number

635.0484 C6771

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Collection

Your library

Publication

Chelsea Green Publishing (2009), 264 pages

Description

Choosing locally grown organic food is a sustainable living trend that's taken hold throughout North America. Celebrated farming expert Eliot Coleman helped start this movement with The New Organic Grower. Now, with his long-awaited new book, The Winter Harvest Handbook, anyone can have access to his hard-won experience. Gardeners and farmers can use the innovative, highly successful methods Coleman describes in this comprehensive handbook to raise crops throughout the coldest of winters. --publisher.

User reviews

LibraryThing member tgraettinger

Very good book for those interested in gardening in northern climates (the author lives and works in Maine). More intended for an audience of growers (commercial), but plenty of tidbits for the backyard gardener or homesteader. Includes a lot of discussion of cold house (unheated greenhouse) and

cool house (minimal heat to keep temps above 32 degF) techniques for growing vegetables, especially greens and cold-hearty vegetables. Great motivation to try many of the techniques myself.

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LibraryThing member adulau

In LibraryThing, I subscribed to SantaThing (a great idea) and one the book I received is about producing vegetable during Winter. Usually when you are gardening in our area, growing vegetable below 10 Celsius degree seemed unrealistic. While reading this book, I discovered plenty of ideas in order

to grow vegetables during winter time. The book is a very nice overview of the vegetables being able to growth in Winter with many real examples. A very good book.

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LibraryThing member manjotd

I recently read this book while researching how to start a vegetable garden. I was looking for the other book by the same author, " Four season harvest ..." but the library happened to have this one. Some great ideas there about growing veggies in winter with the help of simple man made structures

. Very easy to setup, even a caveman can do it ;D Also useful techniques for extending the season by getting an early start in spring and extending the fall harvest. There are very useful temperature charts comparing temps inside and outside the hoops. These techniques would be even easier to implement in warmer zones. You will also find a useful list of vegetables that can be grown using these techniques. Cannot wait to try growing carrots under the hoops this fall.

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LibraryThing member hjjugovic

Not what I was looking for (focused on commercial small farm growers) but still picked up some valuable ideas. Very generous sharing specific techniques, with lots of pictures. Pithy.

LibraryThing member MarthaJeanne

Although most of his methods for producing vegetables to sell in Maine are not suitable for my small private vegetable beds in Vienna, I learned a lot, and stayed interested in the book. I think I will end up with more fresh vegetables next winter.

LibraryThing member JayLivernois

Here is the standard, ground-breaking manual for year round vegetable growing for the professional and amateur farmer in New England. The book is clearly written and pragmatic.

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