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

Four-Season Harvest: Organic Vegetables from Your Home Garden All Year Long
by Barbara Damrosch, Eliot Coleman

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Author: Barbara Damrosch, Eliot Coleman
Illustrator: Kathy Bray
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1999-10-01
ISBN: 1890132276
Number of pages: 236
Publisher: Chelsea Green

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Book Review: Exciting book! But if you live in the Pacific Northwest...
Summary: 5 Stars

"Four Season Harvest" was so exciting for me to read. Not only for the content, but the author is also enjoyable to read. So I read the whole thing through with visions in my head of building a greehouse and harnessing the sun's light to harvest fabulous food year-round.
When I was near done, I picked up "Growing Vegetables West of the Cascades" by Steve Solomon. I live south of Seattle and thought I should see what specific local information I needed to turn my little garden into something more substantial. On page 123 of Solomon's book- 6th edition (and indeed earlier in the book), he talks about how solar greenhouses, which work well during Winter on the East coast, are much less affective West of the Cascades. In Maine, where Coleman ("Four Season Harvest") lives, although it gets very cold in the Winter, the sun still shines frequently. But West of the Cascades, we get much less sun in the Winter, when a bulk of the days are overcast. No matter how great your greenhouse, if you still don't have much sun filtering through, produce still cannot continue to grow/survive. (By the way, Solomon is also a proponent of a year long harvest, he just has other recommendations for producing this in our area).
In summary, I really enjoyed "Four Season Harvest" and recommend it to anyone living where, even if cold and snowy, there is lots of sun in Winter. For those of us living along the North Pacific Coast, I'd recommend instead Solomon's "Growing Vegetables West of the Cascades."

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

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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