Four-Season Harvest: Organic Vegetables from Your Home Garden All Year Long, 2nd Edition Subsequent Edition

by Eliot Coleman (Author), Kathy Bray (Illustrator), Barbara Damrosch (Foreword)

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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.

To learn more about the possibility of a four-season farm, please visit Coleman's website www.fourseasonfarm.com.

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From 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 in the garden (which "has more to teach us than just how to grow food"). Here, his philosophy of organic growing is shared easily. The book concludes with an extensive chapter on the vegetables that comprise his "cast of characters." Illustrated. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

"Four-Season Harvest is a magnificent work. It's enticing, inspiring, sensible, and it opens a whole new world for the home grower."--Peter Fossel, Country Journal

About the Author

Eliot Coleman has over thirty years' experience in all aspects of organic farming, including field vegetables, greenhouse vegetables, rotational grazing of cattle and sheep, and range poultry. He is the author of The New Organic Grower, Four-Season Harvest, and The Winter Harvest Handbook, as well as the instructional workshop DVD Year-Round Vegetable Production with Eliot Coleman. Coleman and his wife, Barbara Damrosch, presently operate a commercial year-round market garden, in addition to horticultural research projects, at Four Season Farm in Harborside, Maine.

Paperback: 236 pages
Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing; Subsequent edition (October 1, 1999)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1890132276
ISBN-13: 978-1890132279
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It does have good information in it

ByJoeon July 31, 2015

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I'm having a hard time classifying this book - gardening resource / personal philosophy / travel diary (France) ??? It does have good information in it, but does not stay focused on the topic and theme. Very different from "Garden Primer". Dont get me wrong, there is good content on cold frames, tools, etc, but probably not what you need if you want a resource to guide you through a task.

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BySweetPeaon October 7, 2011

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I love this book! It has taught me many things I did not already know. I have a patio garden behind a condo on a 14X8 concrete slab. This book talks about working with greenhouses and planter boxes throughout the winter in the North where Eliot is from & having great success. I live in the South East where it is much warmer so I am looking forward to having many green veggies over the winter. This book has given me many ideas which I am adapting to my patio on a smaller scale.

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Very informative book.

ByCatherineon August 16, 2017

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I always want to be able to harvest something from my garden and this book is very informative for that reason exactly.

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ByLullaon October 30, 2014

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My husband and i both are still reading this book and enjoying every bit!The best advice we have gotten so far is don't let your garden boss you around, you will enjoy it so much more!We are currently growing kohlrabi,kale,collards,swiss chard,mixed salad,radishes,beets and rutabagas.we have enjoyed beets the best.When you thin them you make a salad with the plants instead of throwing them out with a broken heart.My chickens and goats have enjoyed our garden too!Get this book.If you only read it you will have enjoyed it enough to pay for itself!But you will plant too!

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A must read

ByKMJon August 12, 2016

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He explains the why and how to do it, so you understand what your doing.

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Fun, helpful, and beautiful

BySpadeon December 18, 2006

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This book is filled with useful, easy-to-understand information that you can directly apply to your own garden with basic skills and tools. It's a fun read with lovely illustrations, and has become one of my "top shelf" books.

What I like best about this book is its clear language combined with meaningful visuals and supporting information. This book covers a wealth of topics to help with planning and problem solving, while encouraging gardeners to build around their own love of gardening.

My favorite part of this book is the information provided on working with vegetables through the winter. Based on the descriptions and images included in this book, we were able to build our own cold frames suited to our needs and available materials. This winter our cold frame is housing our very first patch of winter vegetables.

This isn't just a "how-to" book, but rather a collection of experiences, knowledge, and playfulness that help gardeners of all levels improve their annual yields.

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VERY HELPFUL

ByBig Burlyon March 16, 2015

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Answered a lot of questions without trial and error on my part. Will be trying some of the techniques at both ends of the growing season where we live. Winters are especially harsh here, so not optimistic that we will harvest in either Jan. or Feb., but in the other "off-season" months I am sure we will harvest veggies we could only buy in the store. Good, easy read.

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And love hearing about the different varieties of veg that will ...

ByBlackon January 14, 2015

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Interesting book, I cannot wait to grow lettuce for next winter! And love hearing about the different varieties of veg that will stand up to our New England winter, I am going to try them all.

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