Growing Winter Food

"The essential gardening guide for those who want to enjoy their garden's output all year round" (Modern Mississauga Magazine). DON'T LIMIT YOUR GARDEN'S HARVEST TO SUMMER! Discover the joys of growing and harvesting fresh produce that you can eat all winter long with this essential guide from home and garden expert Linda Gray. Growing Winter Food will show you how to enjoy a delicious array of healthy roots, legumes, green vegetables, herbs, and fruits long after the thermometer - and the snow - have fallen. The author provides detailed cultivation advice for each crop, along with nutritional information, recipe ideas, and storage suggestions. - How to choose, grow, and preserve crops so you'll have fresh vegetables over the winter - Easy-to-follow instructions for sowing, maintenance, harvesting, and general gardening techniques for specific crops - All of the basic techniques you need to know, from preparing the soil to using containers to dealing with pests and diseases - Storage options and recipe ideas to help you make the very best use of your crops "Lisa's practical organization and "start where you are style" take the intimidation out of growing your own food, and then she provides a few ways in each chapter to make your work into a delicious meal. It's enough to encourage any would-be gardener to get to digging." Stephanie Burt, food writer and host of The Southern Fork podcast "I live in a region with four distinct seasons so Growing Winter Food is THE book to help me plan my two favorite hobbies: gardening and cooking. There's no better feeling that seeing a larder packed, year-round, with the fruits (and veggies) of my own labor." Natalie Bovis, The Liquid Muse, author of Edible Cocktails: Garden To Glass