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The Winter Harvest Handbook: Year Round Vegetable Production Using Deep-Organic Techniques and Unheated Greenhouses

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“Brimming with ingenuity, hope, and eminently practical advice, The Winter Harvest Handbook is an indispensable contribution.”—Michael Pollan “Useful, practical, sensible, and enlightening information for the home gardener.”—Martha Stewart With The Winter Harvest Handbook, everyone can have access to organic farming pioneer Elliot Coleman’s hard-won experience. Gardeners and farmers can use the innovative, highly successful methods Coleman describes in this comprehensive handbook to raise crops throughout the coldest of winters. Building on the techniques that hundreds of thousands of farmers and gardeners adopted from Coleman’s The New Organic Grower and Four- Season Harvest, this book focuses on growing produce of unparalleled freshness and quality in customized unheated or, in some cases, minimally heated, movable plastic greenhouses. Inside, you’ll find Coleman’s clear, concise, and meticulous details [including many accompanying illustrations] on: Greenhouse construction and maintenancePlanting schedulesCrop managementHarvesting practicesMarketing methods Coleman’s painstaking research and experimentation with more than 30 different crops will be valuable to small farmers, homesteaders, and experienced home gardeners who seek to expand their production seasons. A passionate advocate for the revival of small-scale sustainable farming, Coleman provides a practical model for supplying fresh, locally grown produce during the winter season, even in climates where conventional wisdom says it “just can’t be done.” “The incomparable Eliot Coleman is back.”—The New York Times “A Renaissance man for a new generation.”—Dan Barber Read more

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Chelsea Green


Publication date ‏ : ‎ March 31, 2009


Edition ‏ : ‎ 1st


Language ‏ : ‎ English


Print length ‏ : ‎ 264 pages


ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1603580816


ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 16


Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds


Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.98 x 0.57 x 9.95 inches


Best Sellers Rank: #48,758 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #4 in Greenhouses (Books) #30 in Organic & Sustainable Gardening & Horticulture #33 in Vegetable Gardening


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    • Grow Vegetables In The Winter! I'm Doing It. Great Book!
Readers will learn from this book at their own level of understanding. I'm a novice, so I'll be going back for more as I mature as a vegetable gardener, even though I've got a GREENHOUSE FULL OF VEGETABLES AND THIS IS JANUARY! I had (still have) so much to learn, but I knew I wanted to grow vegetables when they weren't traditionally supposed to be growing. The Winter Harvest Handbook taught me how the shortened days of winter affect growing (everyone else probably already knew that but I had to read it to understand it) and ways I can use artificial lighting to provide more "daylight" hours. I learned about the option of heating the soil. That method is too advanced for me, but others were just what I needed. I am heating the soil for the seeds I'm sowing. I had asked my expert-gardener neighbors, "Do the plants really know what season it is?" <grin> They assured me that they didn't. I made it my goal to convince the seeds/seedlings I plant that it is growing season. I accomplished that with the help of this handbook among others. I can see that a more experienced gardener or those with more land to plant will be more interested in topics related to their projects. I stuck with the topics I could use in my new greenhouse and my new cold frame, which I haven't used yet. I only have so much courage and can only try so many new things at a time. EDITED to say that I did try to use mine. I had given my neighbor one and he used his to produce a good crop of radishes. I tried to use mine, but the wind moved the soil around so much that the carrot seeds I sowed never sprouted. This may not be the location for a cold frame, but it's a good idea for tamer regions. I've been enjoying my new greenhouse, formerly a screened-in porch, now enclosed with plexiglass and full of growing vegetables--in January! Right now I have spinach, Romaine lettuce, radishes (although I timidly didn't plant enough of those), tomatoes (which I'm learning to pollinate without the assistance of bees since they aren't available), squash, and lots of onions and garlic. A couple of days ago I discovered a cucumber plant which looks like it needs pollination. [EDITED to come back weeks later and say that I successfully pollinated it and it is now a tiny little cucumber and there are more on the way.] Back to reading to find out exactly how it works with cucumbers when there are no bees around. My greenhouse may not be warm enough to bring that little cucumber to harvest, [EDITED to say that it worked!!!] but {shrug} the other vegetables are, with the exception of the tomatoes that are going that direction and have blossomed, I've hand-pollinated them, and I'm still waiting to see tomatoes, but it's looking good for them too! Romaine lettuce and LOTS of spinach are the stars out there! They are growing with little effort on my part. [EDITED to say that I have dozens of little green cherry tomatoes on my tomato bush now. This is awesome! I had no idea gardening could be so much fun. Where have I been? Oh yes, working, and no time for much of anything but work. This is better.] The handbook taught me which vegetables tolerate colder conditions and those that can make it in cooler (not cold) conditions. I'll soon be ready to try out the cold-frame and Not not as timid as I was when I started. It's really tough forcing myself to harvest my vegetables though. I love to watch them growing and thriving in my garden, EVEN THROUGH THE OKLAHOMA BLIZZARD OF Christmas Day, 2009. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on January 17, 2010 by Bold Consumer
    • Year round gardening for the 21st century
Winter Harvest will do more to change the way gardeners think than any book since John Jeavons' How to Grow More Vegetables. That book, published more than 30 years ago, popularized the European raised bed intensive methods introduced to America by Alan Chadwick in the 1970s. If you are in doubt about the impact it had, take a look at any community garden today. Like Jeavons' book, Winter Harvest offers a hungry and increasingly energy-starved world a new (or hitherto overlooked) paradigm for growing food. Whereas Chadwick's emphasis was on deep cultivation and close spacing of plants to maximize crop yields in the available space, Eliot Coleman effectively stretches the growing season over the entire year, even in the frigid Maine climate where he farms. How? By the use of simple unheated greenhouses, with an additional level of cold protection provided by floating row covers that act as a greenhouse within a greenhouse. The combined result: the growing season effectively moves three USDA zones south. Solar greenhouses gained attention 30 years ago, but those designs incorporated cumbersome features such as thermal mass, double glazing and insulation below the frost line. I recall visiting one such greenhouse around 1978: a massive A-frame designed by engineer Reed Maes and featuring a "water ceiling" consisting of a water-filled polyethylene sleeve suspended near the top of the A-frame to absorb infrared radiation and prevent overheating on sunny days, while serving as thermal mass to re-radiate heat into the interior during sunless periods. Though the design brought results (I still remember the refreshing sight of trellised tomatoes climbing skyward on a frigid January day), it was costly and still required supplemental heat. Unheated greenhouses, such as that described by Helen and Scott Nearing in their 1977 book, Building and Using our Sun-Heated Greenhouse, provided a year-round harvest of cool-weather crops on a homestead scale. Eliot Coleman's model takes winter growing a step further. His model couldn't be simpler. No attempt is made to grow warm weather crops in winter. Instead, cold-hardy vegetable like spinach and leeks (and some less familiar ones such as mache, mizuna, and claytonia) are sowed on a meticulously worked out schedule to bring them to harvest throughout the winter months. The greenhouse is a single-glazed hoop house mounted on sled runners so it can be pulled by a tractor over beds sown in the open. Since he is running a commercial operation, Coleman has done everything possible to minimize cost and labor, including the development of specialized tools like the broadfork and the tilther. Vegetables are planted intensively and successive plantings follow relentlessly. The goal is to leave no bed unplanted for more than 24 hours. Many readers will doubtless be attracted to the presumed health benefits of having fresh local produce year round. Coleman doesn't dwell on this, though he does provide the following interesting tidbit: "According to studies on levels of antioxidants in vegetables, the winter harvest would seem to offer an additional benefit. Highly colored foods grown under cool conditions have been shown to be much higher in anthocyanins, one of the most valuable antioxidants." (page 172) Winter Harvest is not exactly a how-to book for home gardeners. The system described here has been developed for small-scale commercial market gardens or mini-farms (Coleman and his staff have one and a half acres under cultivation, including about a quarter acre--12,000 square feet--of greenhouse space.) But readers may use their resourcefulness to devise ways of adapting these principles to their own gardens, as I intend to do. For example, the Quick Hoops described in Chapter 11 offer a very simple and inexpensive way to provide one layer of protection. There is information on growing specific crops. See, for instance, Coleman's method for growing leeks (page 82-84) and advice on tool selection. Appendixes include lists of tool and seed suppliers, climate maps, and sowing dates for fall and winter crops. The final chapters comprise a thoughtful and thought-provoking essay, including a frank unvarnished assessment of the "organic" food movement as co-opted by industry. Coleman's description of a real food market as it might exist will bring tears to the eyes of those who deplore the lamentable state of our present food supply. It is not too late to reverse the present direction in which our food system is headed. But the momentum for change will not come from the food establishment, but from innovative pioneers like Eliot Coleman. With the help of this book home gardeners can help lead the way. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on December 28, 2010 by Dale Miller

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