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Winter Gardening in the Maritime Northwest: Cool Season Crops for the Year-Round Gardener
Many gardeners can supply a significant amount of their own food during the plentiful summer harvest. But the key to substantial savings on your food bill is putting fresh, homegrown produce on your table every month of the year. And in the mild, forgiving climate of the maritime Pacific Northwest, it can be easier than you think.
In Winter Gardening in the Maritime Northwest, Binda Colebrook provides a complete guide to cool season crops and how to raise them. Gardeners from southeastern Alaska to southern Oregon will benefit from her clear, practical advice on:
Selecting and preparing the ideal winter gardening site
Maximizing production and minimizing pests with cloches, cold frames, mulches, and companion planting
Choosing the best strains and hardiest varieties for a year-round growing season
An excellent companion volume to The Winter Harvest Cookbook, this revised and updated edition of the classic text will have you serving up fabulous alternatives to bland, expensive, and tasteless imported supermarket vegetables in no time. Whether your favorite meals include hearty roots or succulent greens, Winter Gardening in the Maritime Northwest will help you maximize your food production year-round.
Binda Colebrook is a lifelong gardener who has extensive experience as a homesteader in western Washington. A widely recognized authority on raising cool season vegetables in the maritime Northwest, she has worked as a wetlands biologist and environmental interpreter. Now retired, she is developing her own property to maximize year-round food production, as well as restoring its native habitat.
In Winter Gardening in the Maritime Northwest, Binda Colebrook provides a complete guide to cool season crops and how to raise them. Gardeners from southeastern Alaska to southern Oregon will benefit from her clear, practical advice on:
Selecting and preparing the ideal winter gardening site
Maximizing production and minimizing pests with cloches, cold frames, mulches, and companion planting
Choosing the best strains and hardiest varieties for a year-round growing season
An excellent companion volume to The Winter Harvest Cookbook, this revised and updated edition of the classic text will have you serving up fabulous alternatives to bland, expensive, and tasteless imported supermarket vegetables in no time. Whether your favorite meals include hearty roots or succulent greens, Winter Gardening in the Maritime Northwest will help you maximize your food production year-round.
Binda Colebrook is a lifelong gardener who has extensive experience as a homesteader in western Washington. A widely recognized authority on raising cool season vegetables in the maritime Northwest, she has worked as a wetlands biologist and environmental interpreter. Now retired, she is developing her own property to maximize year-round food production, as well as restoring its native habitat.
208 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1977
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February 6, 2016
Nice book and nicely supplemented with quotes, poems and illustrations (no photos). I've been pretending to garden at a community garden since 2009, and I started winter gardening with garlic 3 years ago, I think. I am not a fan of kale, but this book has definitely given me some other ideas, like what the heck is corn salad?! :) I am not interested in gardening with cold frames or any other kind of cover, so some parts of the book were irrelevant to me. But I was impressed that the questionable ethics of animal-based composts (manure, blood/bone meal) was at least mentioned, as was the idea of making vegetarian compost!
Also mentioned in passing (top of page 17), and something I've thought about as well, is the fact that animal manure comes with a lot of extra chemicals. Even pet cows and horses are de-wormed at the very least, and factory farmed animals are fed dewormers, growth hormones, antibiotics and who knows what else. All these chemicals come out the back end, and composting will not break down all of them. I can't understand why anyone would want to put this poison in their garden, to be taken up by plants, to be eaten by you. Granted, probably all the food we eat is grown in a stew of chemicals, even organic veges. But don't you want to do better in your own garden?
Ha, that turned into quite the rant, didn't it?! :)
Also mentioned in passing (top of page 17), and something I've thought about as well, is the fact that animal manure comes with a lot of extra chemicals. Even pet cows and horses are de-wormed at the very least, and factory farmed animals are fed dewormers, growth hormones, antibiotics and who knows what else. All these chemicals come out the back end, and composting will not break down all of them. I can't understand why anyone would want to put this poison in their garden, to be taken up by plants, to be eaten by you. Granted, probably all the food we eat is grown in a stew of chemicals, even organic veges. But don't you want to do better in your own garden?
Ha, that turned into quite the rant, didn't it?! :)
September 18, 2012
Turns out you need to plan ahead for winter gardening (like start in July). Woopsie daisy! Guess I'll be picking this one up again NEXT summer.
September 24, 2019
This had great information and I really appreciated the appendixes. This one i might consider.tonadd to my resource materials (I borrowed it from my local library as I do a majority of my reads).
February 7, 2010
This is one of those resource books that you will continue to read through the years
if you have any interest in eating fresh into the winter. She has great ideas for cold frames
and cloches, lists many hardy plants and gives advice for pests that may like those veggies too.
The Winter Gardening book for the Pacific NW.
if you have any interest in eating fresh into the winter. She has great ideas for cold frames
and cloches, lists many hardy plants and gives advice for pests that may like those veggies too.
The Winter Gardening book for the Pacific NW.
December 26, 2012
I read this as an ebook but This is one of those books that I want to add to my personal gardening library. Lots of great advice on how to plan and get started in July to harvest in December.
April 29, 2016
Excellent information
Love the specific notes for our area and tips from years of experience.
The annual guide allows you to plan your year of planting in advance.
Love the specific notes for our area and tips from years of experience.
The annual guide allows you to plan your year of planting in advance.
May 30, 2019
Solid info and level of detail. Answered some questions I had, plus the style is fun and colorful.
May 9, 2021
I read this book a few years ago, bought a copy, and keep turning back to it every year for both winter and summer gardening wisdom. Not so secretly, I want to be Binda Colebrook’s best friend.
May 14, 2014
After reviewing 2 books on general year round gardening in the Pacific NW, I decided to read this book too since winter gardening starts in the summer! Nice advice specifically on winter gardening such as how to keep the vegetables from freezing, what veggies and herbs to grow, winter pests, year long plan, etc. With my other 2 books, I should be able to get something edible out of my garden this year. This book is a good reference for beginners.
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