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    Backyard Vegetable Gardening in Winter: A Beginner's Guide to a Successful Vegetable Gardening in Winter
    Backyard Vegetable Gardening in Winter: A Beginner's Guide to a Successful Vegetable Gardening in Winter
    Backyard Vegetable Gardening in Winter: A Beginner's Guide to a Successful Vegetable Gardening in Winter
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    Backyard Vegetable Gardening in Winter: A Beginner's Guide to a Successful Vegetable Gardening in Winter

    By Martha Stone

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    What's Inside Backyard Gardening in Winter

    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.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMartha Stone
    Release dateSep 7, 2014
    ISBN9781310895401
    Backyard Vegetable Gardening in Winter: A Beginner's Guide to a Successful Vegetable Gardening in Winter
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    Martha Stone

    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.

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      Backyard Vegetable Gardening in Winter - Martha Stone

      Introduction to Backyard Winter Gardening

      When the first sign of harsh winter wind and frost sets in, backyard gardeners tend to pack up their tools, leave their garden beds barren and dormant, and hibernate inside their homes with a cup of hot chocolate. Believing that there's nothing better to do during the winter season than wait it out before growing their fruits and vegetables,  we  often only let the season pass by when we could have been reaping our fresh produce even in the midst dropping temperature.

      The Backyard Gardening in winter is inspired by the challenges brought about the cold seasons to our homegrown produce. Because we've been lead to believe that our plants need plenty of warmth and sun, we also discard the idea that we cannot plant and harvest fruits and vegetables during winter, let alone make the plants grow healthily with that kind of climate.

      But, we don't have to seasoned gardeners to make our green thumbs work during winter. What we need are the right knowledge, tools and reinforcement to make our fruits and vegetables grow, multiply and become healthy despite the challenges that winter brings in.

      Backyard Gardening

      Backyard gardening may be an old practice, but doing so in the modern age provide timeless benefits. The sprouts of life, the signs of health and the thought of accessible food right out at your own backyard are both economic and therapeutic. Whether you choose to plant on your backyard lot, have a little greenhouse built or grow your herbs in portable containers, gardening on its own have the power to turn your health and perspectives in life around. That could be overstating it, but consider these many benefits of backyard gardening.

      Backyard gardening contributes to your food security. Tending to your own tomatoes, cabbages, beans and herbs provide you quick access to ingredients which you otherwise have to purchase from the farmer's market. Growing your own fruits and vegetables at home can help you save a couple of dollars per week on food, and produce a few more if you sell the surplus harvests.

      Health is one of the primary reasons for backyard gardening. Health experts agree that access to fresh fruits and vegetables do not only

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