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Four-Season Harvest: Organic Vegetables from Your Home Garden All Year Long

Four-Season Harvest: Organic Vegetables from Your Home Garden All Year LongAuthors: Eliot Coleman, Barbara Damrosch
Creator: Kathy Bray
Publisher: Chelsea Green
Category: Book

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Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars 64 reviews

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

Publication Date: October 1, 1999
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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 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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5 out of 5 stars Essential guide for organic gourmands   October 27, 1999
GENE GERUE (Zanoni, MO USA)
253 out of 256 found this review helpful

Eat fresh, home-grown vegetables year round? Eliminate canning and freezing? Do this all at low cost? Eliot Coleman does, you can, too, and here is the how. Coleman is a market gardener in Maine who may eat better than Bill Gates. He shows that sunlight and wind protection are more important that temperature--and, by the way, most of the U.S. gets more winter sunlight than Coleman's place. Inexpensive, unheated greenhouses that he calls tall tunnel houses--some say hoop houses--and cold frames protect from wind and keep snow off the veggies. Greenhouse comfort is more to benefit the gardener. The key is what and when to plant. Full info given for planting dates, construction details, sources of seeds, tools, greenhouses. Well illustrated. An essential guide for organic gourmands.


5 out of 5 stars I recommend this for anyone who hates to see the season end!   December 28, 1999
Terry (Boston, MA USA)
148 out of 151 found this review helpful

Eliot Coleman's love and deep knowledge of gardening comes through in this easy to read, and easy to use book. I love the idea of a four season harvest, and if he can do it in Maine, then anyone can do it! The book opens the readers mind to the wide spread possibilities that await gardener's with imagination, an open mind, and the willingness to work at it. He offers ideas for cold frames, row covers and tunnels to extend the season. Good explanations as to how they protect crops. The book also gives a great amount of detail for a wide range of vegetables. Charts provide information on when vegetables can be harvested throughout the year, and offers the reader many vegetables to choose from for a three season harvest, and a fair number for the four season harvest. I would recommend this book to anyone, beginner or experienced gardener!


5 out of 5 stars Very practical!   January 17, 2007
Glen K. Peterson
43 out of 43 found this review helpful

I've built a few cold frames in north-eastern Massachusetts based on all the latest theories of maximizing and storing solar heat. They didn't work so well. Then I tried Eliott's simple cold-frame design and it was in every way superior! He's not making stuff up to sell a book, this is time-tested and personally tested advice from a master grower. This, and "The New Organic Grower" were my favorite books before I moved South.


5 out of 5 stars Old wisdom brought to our new-fangled too-fangled lives.   September 26, 2005
Scout (Providence, RI)
42 out of 42 found this review helpful

I'd wanted this book for a year, and it lived up to the anticipation for a number of reasons. First, there is great detail, so much that you gotta fight off being overwhelmed. This will clearly be a great reference book for many years to come. Second, this isn't some new invention in farming... it's something I value even more, the careful collection of old-wisdom and a retraining those of us who have been cut off from the ways of yore. In this case, the author researches growing methods in France and shows us how folk who rely on garden food have long found ways to grow it more effectively.

Cool stuff. Makes me more enthusiastic about winter gardening... and about eating more whole foods.



5 out of 5 stars A unique resource   August 1, 1998
Becky Michelsen (childrensgarden@hotmail.com) (Petoskey, MI)
38 out of 38 found this review helpful

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.

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