Gardening Techniques for Year-Round Vegetable Production

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Learn about year-round vegetable production for your garden. Eliot Coleman checks greens growing in a cold frame inside a greenhouse at his Four Season Farm in Harborside, Maine.
Learn about year-round vegetable production for your garden. Eliot Coleman checks greens growing in a cold frame inside a greenhouse at his Four Season Farm in Harborside, Maine.
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Inside the greenhouse, a layer of fabric row cover held a foot above the soil on wire wickets protects winter crops. Coleman and his wife, Barbara Damrosch, have identified the most winter-hardy crops over time and now, in a further refinement of the system, grow the top varieties in minimally heated greenhouses without the use of the row covers.
Inside the greenhouse, a layer of fabric row cover held a foot above the soil on wire wickets protects winter crops. Coleman and his wife, Barbara Damrosch, have identified the most winter-hardy crops over time and now, in a further refinement of the system, grow the top varieties in minimally heated greenhouses without the use of the row covers.
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Eliot Coleman harvests carrots from an outdoor cold frame at his Four Season Farm.
Eliot Coleman harvests carrots from an outdoor cold frame at his Four Season Farm.

Learn about year-round vegetable production to harvest a variety of delicious greens and produce in fall and winter.

Gardening Techniques for Year-Round Vegetable Production

Grow your own gorgeous greens even in the coldest winter with these techniques.

It’s enjoyable and instructive to review the progress of an idea you have developed over the years, trying to remember the hallmarks of different stages and the particular influences that resulted in memorable changes.

I was encouraged to do just that when one of my children, Clara Coleman, told me she wanted to try our year-round, fresh-vegetable production at her Colorado home. I developed this technique over time in New England — what started as a simple cold frame has now grown to a 15,000-square-foot commercial greenhouse that I operate with my wife, Barbara Damrosch.

  • Published on Dec 1, 2003
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