Backyard Vegetable Gardening in Winter: A Beginner's Guide to a Successful Vegetable Gardening in Winter
About this ebook
Backyard Vegetable Gardening in Winter is a useful resource that can help you achieve self-sufficiency during the winter season, especially when the prices of store-bought produce reach sky high. With proven and timeless techniques in backyard gardening, you will appreciate how unbelievably easy and manageable it is to produce homegrown fruits and vegetables in the challenging winter season. And soon enough, your backyard winter garden will become ripe with rewards and fruits of your hardwork.
This book contains essential information in successful backyard gardening for the winter season. Some of the topics covered in its 8 chapters include:
• How essential and possible it is to take care of a backyard garden in winter.
• Fruits and vegetables that easily thrive during the winter season, without artificial heat and electricity.
• How to get started with your backyard winter garden, including the selection of location, tools, soil and fertilizers.
• Tips and techniques in keeping a backyard garden thriving all winter long, including watering, mulching, and planting dimensions.
• Natural ways to manage pests and diseases that may infect your winter plants.
• Benefits and techniques in creating a homemade compost.
After reading this book, you should:
• Find inspiration to dig your garden beds even at the latter part of the year.
• Consider a small selection of winter plants to start with. As soon you begin to see that you can indeed make fruits and vegetables grow even in cold climate, inspiration will refuel itself.
• Know how to protect your winter produce in a more natural and organic way.
• Manage to perennially grow fruits and vegetables that you thought would only survive in other seasons.
• Find yourself immensely enjoying the products of your labor, from the backyard garden right to your dining table.
About the author
Martha Stone is a chef and also cookbook writer. She was born and raised in Idaho where she spent most of her life growing up. Growing up in the country taught her how to appreciate and also use fresh ingredients in her cooking. This love for using the freshest ingredients turned into a passion for cooking. Martha loves to teach others how to cook and she loves every aspect of cooking from preparing the dish to smelling it cooking and sharing it with friends.
Martha eventually moved to California and met the love of her life. She settled down and has two children. She is a stay at home mom and involves her children in her cooking as much as possible. Martha decided to start writing cookbooks so that she could share her love for food and cooking with everyone else.
