Author: Linda Gray
Genre: Garden
Source: Netgalley
Reviewed by: Laurie
Rating: 4
Grow Healthy Winter Produce
Grow your own keeper crops for the chilly days of winter—and you'll be sure of putting the freshest, tastiest produce, packed with goodness, on your kitchen table! Growing Winter Food is the essential gardening guide for those who want to enjoy their garden's output all year round. This easy-to-follow book shows you how to grow your own fruit and vegetables for winter use and includes detailed cultivation advice on each crop, along with nutritional value, recipe ideas, and storage suggestions.
Inside Growing Winter Food
• How to choose crops that you can grow and preserve so you’ll have fresh vegetables over the winter.
• Practical information and growing advice for all the most commonly grown winter foods: roots, legumes, green vegetables, herbs and fruits.
• Easy-to-follow instructions for sowing, maintenance, harvesting, and general gardening techniques.
• All the basic techniques you need to know, from preparing soil to using cloches and containers to dealing with pests and diseases.
• Handy plant profiles cover how to grow, plant, care for, save seeds, harvest, and preserve.
• Perfect for those with limited gardening experience, with gardens big or small.
Although some may see this title as a bit misleading if you keep reading you find this book is based on how to grow food and the best methods of storing for winter for your eating enjoyment.
This a book is not only a great reference garden books with lots of helpful tips, but you’ll also find recipes, storing, nutrients, care and maintenance, harvesting and transplanting for each individual vegetable. I really liked the nutrients, care and maintenance sections, they were all explained very well.
I recommend this book for any level gardeners
Growing winter vegetables is much harder than growing plants and flowers in your garden. I personally like flowers and plants because they are easier. For winter vegetables i go to the shop..
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