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The Winter Harvest Handbook: Year Round Vegetable Production Using Deep Organic Techniques And Unheated Greenhouses (2000)

by Eliot Coleman(Favorite Author)

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review 1: Just flipped through this really. It is about growing only vegetables, and some weird ones at that, in the winter in Maine. They achieve that by growing very hardy vegetables inside unheated plastic covered hoop houses, with a floating row cover over each vegetable bed for another layer of protection.It sounds simple and inexpensive enough that anyone could do it, if you like vegetables that much. I'm not much of a vegetable eater or grower.
review 2: It's really interesting to get a business point of view on how to economically raise gardens vegetables through 4 seasons in Maine. No heating, no expensive facilities... just a high-tunnel hoop house and protected raised beds. Scale it down (way down) and there are some practical ideas for the home gardener here.... more No, you can't grow tomatoes in January. But you can get various fresh greens, carrots, beets and more for an extended season, or at least until the snow is too deep to bother trudging out to the garden.The last chapter sums up "organic" methods in a nutshell. Get your hands on this book if only for the clarity and simplicity of this chapter entitled "Deep Organic Farming and the Small Farm." less

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