The 12-Month Gardener: Simple Strategies for Extending Your Growing Season

by Jeff Ashton

“A solid guide to creating contraptions that can help you start gardening earlier and keep going longer.”— Chicago Tribune . “Beautifully produced...focuses on ways to inexpensively protect crops from low temperatures....Includes many full-color photographs showing apparatus used to protect crops....A tremendous pleasure to read.”— HortIdeas .

Genres: Gardening, Nonfiction

136 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 2001

Reviews

[Chris · Rating 5 out of 5]

A valuable gardening resource.

[Lizabeth · Rating 3 out of 5]

Really interesting book. Fabulous ideas for anyone living around zone 5. We're moving to Zone 8 and 9 though so there really wasn't more than one sentence on how to heat protect to extend growing through a hot season (though it was tantalizingly mentioned). Guess I'll have to get to know some Southern gardeners!

[Kathleen · Rating 4 out of 5]

Jeff Ashton is in Asheville, NC, making this ref/gardening book quite applicable to my garden... Good ideas on taking Baby Steps - no need to build a greenhouse immediately! - with row covers and cold frames.

Buy this book.

[David Ward · Rating 3 out of 5]

The 12 Month Gardener: Simple Strategies to Extend Your Growing Season by Jeff Ashton (Lark Books 2001) (635.048). This volume provides comprehensive info about cold frames, cloches, and building greenhouses. My rating: 6/10, finished 2002.

[Amberjean]

Practical, low production value but good information.

[Michael · Rating 3 out of 5]

Gives you ideas on cold frames, green houses, covers, etc to extend your garden through winter months.