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Zusatztext “Invaluable advice for growing your own food.” — New Living Magazine “The writing here is as crisp as the layout! which uses colored page edges and a simple! slightly-New Englandy sense of style to get it’s point across. Best of all! it’s hard to think of anything NOT covered here. . . and yet there’s no sense of the text book in these pages! and only that homey feel one gets while actually gardening. Nicely done.” — Woodstock Times “This guide to gardening in our neck of the woods covers all the basics! one month at a time.” — Cape Cod Times “This book is everything a backyard gardener could want in an instructional guide. . . . Whether you are a newbie gardener or a gardening veteran! there will be something to learn with this book.” — The Revolving Bookcase Informationen zum Autor Marie Iannotti was an avid gardener, Master Gardener Emeritus, as well as a former Cornell Cooperative Extension Horticulture Educator. She was the gardening expert at About.com for over a decade, and her writing was featured in outlets nationwide. Klappentext Matchstick green beans, spicy radishes, leafy greens, and fresh snap peas are just a few of the harvest delights awaiting gardeners in the Northeast. Long, hot summers and cool, crisp falls grant northern gardeners a growing season capable of yielding an ever-changing menu of seasonal food. But how do you use that hot summer weather to grow the sweetest tomatoes? Which months are the best for sowing squash or carrot seeds? And during the long winter months, how can you extend your bountiful harvest? Marie Iannotti answers all these questions and more while covering the many eccentricities of gardening in the Northeast. Monthly planning 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, foiling pests, and working with worm bins. Also included are a comprehensive gardening primer and an A to Z of edibles—a detailed, invaluable source for the region’s tried-and-tested varieties. Whether you are just starting your season or looking for ways to extend it, this is your guide to producing a bountiful, year-round harvest in the Northeast. Vorwort This Timber Press Guide features an A–Z section that profiles the 50 vegetables, fruits, and herbs that grow best in the Northeast and provides basic care and maintenance for each. Preface I can’t look through a seed catalog without choosing enough varieties to plant a football field–sized garden, with an appetite for more. Just thinking about vegetable gardening makes me hungry. Few things in this world can compete with biting into a freshly picked fruit or vegetable. The scents, the vibrancy, and the anticipation of that eruption of flavor make growing food an all-sensory delight. Very few edible plants can’t be grown in the Northeast, especially if you are willing to push the seasonal envelope. Leafy greens, earthy root crops, luscious berries, and hearty winter squash are all ours for the growing. Our climate provides gardeners a warm, sunny summer and plenty of chill days for those exacting plants like rhubarb that need a rest between seasons (kind of like us gardeners). We take a brief pause to celebrate the holidays, and then we reach for our seed catalogs and the gardening season is back underway. Vegetable gardening allows us to be part of the seasons and their changes. Although some people mark spring by the whims of a mercurial groundhog, there is no denying that spring has begun when we see the first green shoots of spinach, asparagus, or rhubarb. It’s not summer until we can bite into a beefy, glowing tomato, and just when the garden is overflowing with abundance in early fall, the shorteni...
