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Four-Season Harvest: Organic Vegetables From Your Home Garden All Year Long by Coleman, Eliot is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Four-Season Harvest: Organic Vegetables From Your Home Garden All Year Long about?
From Publishers WeeklyFrom first sentence to last, Coleman's ( The New Organic Gardener ) book is a delight--an earnest guide written with an impish sense of humor. It will refresh anyone who wants to get the most from a vegetable garden yet doesn't want to devote too much time and energy to the process. Apparently Coleman thoroughly enjoys every phase of gardening--from planting crops to weeding. Who else has ever suggested, only half in jest, dancing with a hoe? Or keeping a pair of ducks for pest patrol? This is that kind of book. It's also a book full of valuable information on how to harvest fresh vegetables and salad ingredients literally year-round--yet without an expensive greenhouse or indoor light garden set-up. Coleman combines succession planting (small sowings three or more times, rather than one big endeavor) with cold-frame growing in the winter months. He includes how-tos for building simple cold-frames. Given the fact that he lives in Maine, his advice seems all the more reliable. He believes in simplicity ("If what I am doing in the garden seems complicated, it is probably wrong"), seasonality (tomatoes in summer, broccoli in fall, mache in February) and diplomacy
Who reads Four-Season Harvest: Organic Vegetables From Your Home Garden All Year Long?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Coleman, Eliot
- Publisher
- Chelsea Green Publishing Company
- Published
- 1999
- Language
- EN
- Category
- nonfiction
- Rating
- 4.27 / 5 (1,829 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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