Comments on: Season Extension – Getting More Green From Your Garden

By: Nita

Nita — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 05:37:11 +0000

Another good book on year-round gardening is GARDENING WHEN IT COUNTS, GROWING FOOD IN HARD TIMES, by Steve Solomon founder of Territorial Seeds. Good info about feeding yourself on a small plot of land!

By: annette

annette — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 16:27:44 +0000

Yes, Territorial Seeds lists Vit, Corn Salad, and Lamb’s lettuce as alternate names for Mache – and they carry it as Corn Salad. Also, another good book for those of us in the Pacific Northwest is “Winter Gardening in the Maritime Northwest” by Binda Colebrook. First published in 1977, but still packed with useful information.

By: vlad

vlad — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 10:44:09 +0000

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By: NM

NM — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 00:24:42 +0000

Kory, try looking for corn salad, or lamb’s lettuce; mache is one of those things that has a lot of names. Johnny’s Selected Seeds has it, also Thompson and Morgan and Victory Seed Co. (www.victoryseeds.com).

By: Central_PA_Chris

Central_PA_Chris — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 22:08:57 +0000

The appliances used in the book Solar Gardening are pretty excellent for season extending. Not cheap, but good long term investments.

Chris

By: Lewru

Lewru — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 20:48:43 +0000

I don’t comment very often but I love, love, love your blog and I feel compelled to point out the irony of your statement about being lazy.

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Thu, 31 Jul 2008 20:47:25 +0000

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By: Theresa

Theresa — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 18:10:00 +0000

I have purchased Coleman’s book, and it has a lot of good stuff in there. I’m looking forward to trying out some of these techniques in my Zone 2/3 garden this winter! I’ve just planted some kale, spinach, beet greens and chard from seed in my garden, which I’m hoping will be just right for Fall picking, with maybe some kale for over winter. This year I’ve been trying all sorts of things, just to see what works here and so far I’ve been pleasantly surprised. Kale seems to grow anywhere under almost any weather or soil conditions, in containers or in the ground, from seed or from seedlings I’ve started inside. Pretty amazing stuff! Wheat, barley, flax and oats grow well too, even when I accidentally neglect them.

By: kory

kory — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 18:06:26 +0000

I definitely concur with the book recommendation, I learned a lot about not just extending seasons, but which crops can actually thrive in colder months. Still have problem finding mache seed though.