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a"Four-Season Harvest" is a magnificent work. Itas enticing, inspiring, sensible, and it opens a whole new world for the home grower.a--Peter Fossel, "Country Journal"
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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 shows how 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.
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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Wonderful book: Wrong continent,
By Dr. Bates (U.K.) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Four-season Harvest: Organic Vegetables from Your Home Garden All Year Long (Paperback)
This book is everything the other reviews say and more - it's great! However, the flaw for UK readers is revealed early on when Coleman discusses the issue of latitude - it's not heat that winter veg need, as much as light - and his model is predicated on living around the 44th latitude or less, like most of the U.S. and indeed the South of France (where he gets much of his inspiration from). Unfortunately for us, the great majority of the UK is above the 50th degree of latitude. Whilst we obviously can grow winter greens, we share the well documented difficulty referred to in this book of having limited winter sunlight and therefore higher levels of nitrate in our greens. My reading of the literature out there is that this is believed to be potentially harmful in terms of transmutation into cancer causing nitrites in the body - some countries certainly set maximum limits for nitrates in their green veg. I've read that you can mitigate this issue by harvesting after a sunny morning, when levels are reduced, but it doesn't exactly fill one with enthusiasm for the idea of growing winter greens that may actually be unhealthy!I did consider returning this book on this basis, but the truth is that it's so engaging and contains such a lot of useful information that even though I don't think I will be following its exhortation to four season harvesting, there is still a lot in there to make it worth the space on my bookshelf. Just bear in mind the difference in geography.
52 of 54 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A unique resource,
By A Customer
This review is from: Four-season Harvest: How to Harvest Fresh Organic Vegetables from Your Home Garden All Year Long (Paperback)
This book is the only one of it's kind I have found. Not only does it have step-by-step instructions and tables on when and how to plant and harvest, it also has plans for building your own cold frames and a portable greenhouse (hoop house). Many books on the same subject focus on artificially heating a greenhouse to grow warm-weather vegetables. This one does not! The focus is instead on how to use what is naturally cold tolerant, and how to keep your plants harvestable throughout the winter.
55 of 58 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Some new stuff,
This review is from: Four-season Harvest: Organic Vegetables from Your Home Garden All Year Long (Paperback)
This book is written by and for American gardeners, although it is also relevant for Europe. The theme is protected cropping and some original research has been carried out by the authors which is very interesting, they hammer home how protected cropping can be very productive, allowing harvesting even when snow has fallen.My only gripe is that it is not really new stuff, especially for Europeans, we already know how to grow year round salad, Carrots and other hardy winter crops.
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