Growing Winter Food: How to Grow, Harvest, Store, and Use Produce for the Winter Months (CompanionHouse Books) Easy Instructions for Sowing, Maintenance, Harvesting, and General Gardening Techniques

"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 Don't limit your garden's harvest to summer!Grow winter crops like beets, peas, Brussels sprouts, winter lettuce, herbs, berries, potatoes, and moreEasy-to-follow instructions for sowing, maintenance, harvesting, and general gardening techniques for specific cropsDetailed advice on each crop, including cultivation, nutritional value, recipe ideas, and storage suggestionsBeginner-friendly text, with basic gardening techniques you need to know, from preparing the soil and using containers to dealing with pests and diseasesGrow your own keeper crops for the chilly days of winter and you'll fill your kitchen table with fresh, tasty produce that's packed with home-grown goodness all year long!Growing Winter Food is the essential gardening guide for anyone who wants to maximize and enjoy their garden's output year-round. This easy-to-follow book shows you how to choose, grow, and preserve your own fruit and vegetables for winter use. Handy plant profiles include detailed advice on each featured crop—how to grow it, plant it, care for it, save its seeds, harvest it, and preserve it—along with nutritional value, recipe ideas, and storage options to help you make the very best use of your crops.Organized by type—root vegetables, legumes, green vegetables, herbs, and garden fruits—you'll find practical information and growing advice for potatoes, carrots, rutabaga, turnips, beets, green beans, fava beans, peas, kale, Brussels sprouts, winter lettuce, sage, rosemary, thyme, garlic, chives, parsley, apples, pears, strawberries, blackberries, and black currants. Learn all the basic techniques you need to know, from preparing soil to using cloches and containers to troubleshooting problems and dealing with pests and diseases. **"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. 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. - Easy-to-follow instructions for sowing, maintenance, harvesting, and general gardening techniques for specific crops - 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__** "Grow your own keeper crops for the chilly days of winter--and you'll be sure of putting the freshest, tastiest produce, packed with goodness, on your kitchen table! Growing Winter Food is the essential gardening guide for those who want to enjoy their garden's output all year round. This easy-to-follow book shows you how to grow your own fruits and vegetables for winter use and includes detailed cultivation advice on each crop, along with nutritional value, recipe ideas, and storage suggestions. Inside Growing Winter Food · How to choose crops that you can grow and preserve so you'll have fresh vegetables over the winter. · Practical information and growing advice for all the most commonly grown winter foods: roots, legumes, green vegetables, herbs and fruits. · Easy-to-follow instructions for sowing, maintenance, harvesting, and general gardening techniques. · All the basic techniques you need to know, from preparing soil to using cloches and containers to dealing with pests and diseases. · Handy plant profiles cover how to grow, plant, care for, save seeds, harvest, and preserve. · Perfect for those with limited gardening experience, with gardens big or small."--Amazon.com This essential guide for anyone who wants to maximize their garden's output all year round provides practical growing advice for the most commonly grown winter foods, including root vegetables, legumes, green vegetables, herbs, and garden fruits.