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Four-Season Harvest: Organic Vegetables from Your Home Garden All Year Long |  | Authors: Eliot Coleman, Barbara Damrosch
Creator: Kathy Bray
Publisher: Chelsea Green
Category: Book
List Price: $24.95
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Rating:  62 reviews
Sales Rank: 1814
Media: Paperback
Pages: 236
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 9.9 x 7.9 x 0.8
ISBN: 1890132276
Dewey Decimal Number: 635.0484
EAN: 9781890132279
ASIN: 1890132276
Publication Date: October 1, 1999
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Product Description
If 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.
This story of sunshine, weather patterns, old limitations and expectations, and new realities is delightfully innovative in the best gardening tradition. Four-Season Harvest will have you feasting on fresh produce from your garden all through the winter.
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 gardening all year around November 13, 2009
Darcy Dorwart
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 October 11, 2009
Garden Guru (Fairfield, VA)
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 July 25, 2009
Eric Davis (Bennett, CO USA)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
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 June 22, 2009
Margaret Clark
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
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 June 2, 2009
Michael A. Duvernois (Minneapolis, MN United States)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
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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