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 | Niki Jabbour, Joseph De Sciose

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I finished this the other day but apparently forgot to review!! Jabbour explores wats to extend the gardening season via cold frames, row covers, unheated greenhouses, etc. She has a lot of practical information about building and using these items, and about what kinds of veggies will grow in these conditions. The second half of the book is a vegetable reference with tons of different veggies listed by cold/cool/warm needs, and the basics of⬇️

TheAromaofBooks (cont'd) raising them. This isn't really a book for beginning gardeners, although the reference section does have a lot of great information. But if you've been gardening for a year or two and are wishing you could harvest things like kale, salad greens, carrots, etc. all year long, this book is full of color photos, clear instructions, and lots of tips. Mostly this book made me wish that I had a good place to set up grow lights so I can start ⬇ 3y

TheAromaofBooks (cont'd) seeds, but with our small house and no basement, I'm just still not sure where that spot is lol

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#TheShelfieChronicles - TBR 2+ yrs 3y

Librarybelle So many challenge prompts covered! 3y

Lauredhel Wow, sterling reading challenge work there :) 3y

TheAromaofBooks @Librarybelle @Lauredhel - It's one of the best parts about reading in January - so many empty challenge slots to fill, it's hard to miss! 😂 3y

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

#BookReport - January hasn't been a super industrious reading month for me. I picked up a lot of hours at the orchard while we were wrapping up the season, we've been working on the bathroom, and I've been freshly addicted to Stardew Valley. My chapter-a-day(ish) reads are progressing nicely. David Copperfield is still just such a delight and I've been enjoying #WanderingThroughWutheringHeights WAY more than I anticipated, especially now that I ⬇

TheAromaofBooks (cont'd) have my death sheet going 😂 The Story Girl is a delightful reread as it has been so long since I picked it up. The tagged book is my current nonfiction read and there is some interesting stuff in here, but I'm not sure how much effort I'm willing to go through just to have salad greens and carrots in the dark months. Unbelievably (for me) I only finished on book this week! Dumb Witness was a great Christie reread. I'm almost done ⬇ 3y

TheAromaofBooks (cont'd) with The Fire, which is okay but not as well-paced as its predecessor. I still haven't started From Blood & Ash so the sequel went back to the library as it was due this week. Still hoping to tackle that chunkster sometime this month, though. I have two shorties on the windowsill and I think I'm going to read those next - need to feel like I'm getting somewhere! 😂

@Cinfhen 3y

Laughterhp I listen to audiobooks while I play stardew valley! 3y

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DivineDiana Cheers to your Reading Life! ❤️ 3y

rabbitprincess @Laughterhp That‘s amazing! I can‘t multitask anything more complicated than jigsaws with audiobooks. I would probably also keep drowning out the audiobook by swearing at the monsters in the mines 😂 What‘s your current farm like? 😄 3y

Laughterhp @rabbitprincess Last year it was the only way I could justify playing video games! This year, I just play them lol. Haha I definitely am swearing at the monsters too! 3y

TheAromaofBooks @DivineDiana - Thank you!!! 3y

TheAromaofBooks @Laughterhp - I'm jealous of your ability to do audiobooks - my brain just isn't cut out for listening to something different from what I'm doing!! 😂 3y

Cinfhen Woohoo!!! You‘re working on the bathroom!!!!! 3y

TheAromaofBooks @Cinfhen - My husband is really in the groove right now!! I only work PT, so I let him set the pace on weekends since they are his only days home, and he has been full-steam ahead LOL We got the tile grouted and more flooring down. And since we're grouting anyway... we got all the chipped up grout out of the kitchen floor tile so we can grout it before we go out of town on Thursday haha Busy weekend but it feels good to see it coming together!! 3y

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

Super busy yesterday getting a lot of spring projects done, including a bunch of garden prep!! Let the girls out afterwards so they could snap up some grubs & enjoy wandering about for the afternoon.

Do any of you have a favorite gardening book? I have so many!! Love the tagged book even though I haven't tried most of her season-extending ideas - I just love her thorough vegetable glossary in the back!!

Bookwormjillk So many favorites. Barbara Kingsolver, Angelo Pelligrini, From The Cook‘s Garden, plus old how to books I‘ve collected over the years. I love this time of year. 4y

Lauram I love this photo! 4y

bookandbedandtea How lovely! 4y

TheAromaofBooks @Bookwormjillk - Same!!! It's a little ridiculous because I work at a greenhouse & then come home & spend my spare time messing about with plants. Definitely not an addiction! 😂 4y

TheAromaofBooks @Lauram @bookandbedandtea - Thank you!!! It has taken us a few years to work out our terraced raised beds on our hillside garden, but it works!! I got some seeds in the ground today so I'm pretty stoked. I usually wait until Memorial Day weekend to plant tomato & pepper plants. Soon!!! 4y

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

1. Tagged - just looked up info on planting potatoes the other day. Even though this book is technically about how to extend your growing season, it has loads of fabulous general information about raising veggies and I love it!
2. While I enjoy nonfiction on random topics a lot, what I actually read is usually stuff related to homesteading - gardening, raising chickens, growing fruit trees, installing a water garden, etc.
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TheAromaofBooks (cont'd) author, but I totally recommend anything published by Storey. Their books are practical, laid out well, bound nicely, and usually have loads of photos and/or drawings. I have tons of their books and love them all!

#SundayFunday (on a Monday 😁) @ozma.of.oz 5y

BookmarkTavern Good luck on your potatoes! I planted my own potatoes a little while ago. I‘m excited! 😁 (edited) 5y

TheAromaofBooks @ozma.of.oz - every year I like to try something new and crazy (last year I grew loofah gourds and turned them into loofahs!) so potatoes are my new thing for this year and I'm pretty excited to see how they turn out!! Keep me posted on yours, too! 5y

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BookmarkTavern Wow! That sounds fantastic! I am also getting a little experimental this year. (I planted a pumpkin!) 😆 5y

TheAromaofBooks @ozma.of.oz - I've never grown pumpkins on purpose, but one year they came up volunteer, even though I don't even know how the seeds got in my garden! It was funny because they were getting riper earlier than people usually need pumpkins (August, not late September) but a friend of mine was getting married & in passing wished she had some pumpkins for part of her decoration... so apparently the pumpkins were meant to grow when they did! 😂 5y

BookmarkTavern Surprise pumpkins, that‘s amazing! 😂 Sounds like a fairy tale, one where you‘re the fairy godmother. 5y

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

I posted this book not so long ago. As it fits today's #vegetables prompt perfectly, I thought it was worth posting again! This book has become my go-to reference for my veggie planting. The author provides great advice for garden setup, crop rotation and harvesting. 🌶🥔🥒🍅😉 #day16 #junebookbugs

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PurpleyPumpkin

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

As it's the Victoria Day weekend in my neck of the woods, we did the traditional May 2-4 thing. We bought plants and got busy in the garden! This book has become my go-to reference for my veggie planting. She provides great advice for garden setup, crop rotation and harvesting. 🌸🌷🥔🥒🍅😉

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