Cool Season Gardener: Extend the Harvest, Plan Ahead, and Grow Vegetables Year Round

solstice? Or how about collards for Christmas, leeks on New Year's, and lovely red beets for Valentine's Day, all right from

your own garden? You can, without much trouble, by practicing winter, or "cool-season," gardening.

"Cool Season Gardener" is longtime gardening writer Bill Thorness's friendly guide to maintaining your garden year-round

even in dark, damp, maritime climates. He shows you how to keep the garden in production in cold months, practice

succession planning for sowing and transplanting, plant cover crops, utilize homemade garden structures, and more.

Even the most avid gardeners might be surprised to learn all the benefits of cool season gardening the fact that it is

often less work than summer gardening due to slower growth and less maintenance, or the seasonal bonus of having

fewer pests.