We ’ve been buff ofMeg Cowden’swork for several years . You may have take her articles inNorthern Gardenermagazine about make a root cellar or the joy of head dough orgrowing peanutsin the North . Her first record — Plant Grow Harvest Repeat — has all the exuberance and knowledge that Meg bring to her articles and site in a concentrated , easily accessible but very complete form .
Plant Grow Harvest Repeatfocuses on using the garden space you have intensively to get longer and large harvest time without whelm yourself . sequence planting is a big part of this , in addition to interplanting food and blossom crop , planting continuously ( “ always be inseminate ” is one of her mantra ) and using wicket houses , cold frames , and more to stretch the season .
How to and why to ?
While the book is full of hard-nosed ideas for increasing harvests and stretch the rise season , it also has a philosophic underpinning — why would you want to do that ? For Meg , it ’s about allow for clean , healthy food for her crime syndicate as much as possible and value the kingdom they use to accomplish that . She look at plant life relationship from the perspective of prairies , forests and woods , and practice those to the dwelling garden . Ideas such as found greens as understory flora in the passion of the summertime , relying more on perennial crop , especially for fruit , or using sunny gaps in the garden to mature carrots or greens open up the reader eyes to how you’re able to get more from a garden place by follow nature and what the terminus ad quem of intensive harvesting might naturally be .
The Scripture really excels in the hard-nosed , though . chart show readerswhen to set crops in spring , when to replant them by and by in the time of year , how to space plants , harvest times , how to have continuous blossom bloom in the garden , how fond soil needsto be for different plant to germinate and what the sprouting pace will be at dissimilar temperatures for dissimilar seed . There is even a footmark - by - gradation template to making paper pots to use in indoor seed starting as well as task leaning for each season . Of of course , a vast benefit for northerly gardeners is that Meg gardens in the Twin Cities suburb and bosom our cold climate .
What is also wonderful and practical about this book is that Meg does not gloss over the piece of work require in keeping an intensive garden . She is encouraging , offering a sort of tools for nurseryman to try in their own space , but interpret that gardeners like the gardens they tend move and grow at their own pace .
works Grow Harvest Repeatis an first-class resource for food nurseryman of all accomplishment levels .
