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Zusatztext “Straightforward! clear and packed with information.” — Pacific Northwest Magazine “This is the book that I would give to a neighbor or friend looking to get started at vegetable gardening in the Pacific Northwest.” — Garden Therapy “The perfect guide to pick up right now to get started on our gardens! Forkner…has done a superb job of gathering pertinent information for this fantastic growing area and the types of vegetables we can plant here.” — NW Book Lovers “A growing guide that truly understands the unique eccentricities of the Northwest growing calendar.” — City Farmer News “A great new addition to the all-season gardener’s book shelf—a modern! concise and accessible guide that assumes we will be actively planning! working and harvesting in our gardens more or less all year round.” — The Eugene Weekly “So simple and clear to understand.” — Adventures in Dressmaking Informationen zum Autor Lorene Edwards Forkner is an author and speaker whose work centers on exploring the wonders of the natural world and delicious garden flavors. Lorene is the author of several gardening titles, including Color In and Out of the Garden and The Beginner’s Guide to Growing Great Vegetables. She writes a weekly gardening column for Pacific NW Magazine in The Seattle Times and is the former editor of Pacific Horticulture magazine. Lorene is a warm and engaging speaker who uses imagery and language to tell garden/life stories that inspire and inform. Find her online at www.ahandmadegarden.com. Klappentext Gardeners in the Pacific Northwest are lucky indeed. Ample rainfall, good soil, and moderate temperatures grant us a long and hospitable growing season capable of yielding an ever-changing menu of seasonal and hyper-local food. But how do you maximize that brief summer heat so your tomato dreams can come true? Which month should you sow the carrot or beet seeds? And come October, how can you make all those raked leaves work for you? In this straightforward and encouraging book, Lorene Edwards Forkner answers these questions while covering the many eccentricities of gardening in western Washington and Oregon, and southern British Columbia. Monthly planting guides show exactly what you can do in the garden from January through December. The skill sets go beyond the basics with tutorials on seed saving, worm bins, and more. This book also includes a comprehensive gardening primer and an A to Z of edibles—a detailed, invaluable source for the region’s tried-and-tested varieties. Rain or shine, peas or potatoes, this is your guide to producing a bountiful, year-round harvest in the Pacific Northwest. Vorwort This Timber Press Guide features an A–Z section that profiles the 50 vegetables, fruits, and herbs that grow best in the Pacific Northwest and provides basic care and maintenance for each. Preface Growing fruits and vegetables is a crazy good thing. I love it. From that chilly spring day when I bundle up and venture outside to briskly poke pea seeds into the wet soil to hot summer afternoons spent staking tomatoes, their sticky foliage enveloping me in a slightly bitter herbal aroma and staining my fingers olive—I find the entire process endlessly appealing. But all that pales next to the sheer pleasure of going into the backyard and harvesting crops in their prime. It’s all about the food people! Several years ago while driving along with NPR on the radio, I caught an interview with Greg Atkinson, Northwest chef extraordinaire, recounting a conversation he’d had with esteemed food writer Ruth Reichl. Her assessment of our region’s many resources struck me so strongly I immediately pulled to the curb to write it down. To paraphrase Reichl: the P...
