The Year-Round Vegetable Gardener

The Year-Round Vegetable Gardener: How to Grow Your Own Food 365 Days a Year, No Matter Where You Live - by Niki Jabbour

Even in winter’s coldest months you can harvest fresh, delicious produce. Drawing on insights gained from years of growing vegetables in Nova Scotia, Nikki Jabbour shares her simple techniques for gardening throughout the year. Learn how to select the best varieties for each season, the art of succession planting, and how to build inexpensive structures to protect your crops from the elements. No matter where you live, you’ll soon enjoy a thriving vegetable garden year-round.

About the Author

NIKI JABBOUR is the award-winning author of four books.  She also writes for magazines like Fine Gardening, Horticulture, and Birds & Blooms.  Niki is an in-demand speaker, offering seminars and keynotes at events, shows, societies, and greenhouses across North America such as the Northwest Flower & Garden Show, The Dow Gardens, and Canada Blooms.  Since 2006, Niki has hosted and executive produced her popular radio show, The Weekend Gardener which airs on News 95.7 FM in Halifax as well as online.  For her broadcasting work, Niki won the 2015 Gold Award from GardenComm as ‘Best On-Air Talent’.  When she’s not writing, speaking, or broadcasting about food gardening Niki is harvesting year-round from her twenty raised bed vegetable garden in Halifax, Nova Scotia which is filled with an eclectic mixture of popular vegetables like tomatoes, cucumbers, and beans, as well as unique heirloom varieties, and crops from around the world like cucamelons, snake gourds, and za’atar.

Author: Niki Jabbour
Publisher: Storey Publishing
Copyright © 2011
ISBN: 9781603425681
Paperback: 256 pages
Dimensions: 8.5" x 11"