Known for her expertise in cold-weather gardening, she grows dozens of vegetable varieties in her 2,000-square-foot garden that she's able to harvest year round. Then, top the mulch with an old row cover or bedsheet to hold the insulation in place. Niki’s vegetable garden in Halifax just got a facelift to become even more productive. Then I cover that bed with a mini-hoop tunnel, and then I forget about it, completely. We grow greens and lettuces in an attached solar greenhouse, effectively extending Photo by: Excerpted from Niki Jabbour’s Veggie Garden Remix, © by Niki Jabbour, photography by © James Ingram/Jive Photographic Inc., used with permission from Storey Publishing, Excerpted from Niki Jabbour’s Veggie Garden Remix, © by Niki Jabbour, photography by © James Ingram/Jive Photographic Inc., used with permission from Storey Publishing. But if I want to eat it in winter, I have to have it in some easy-to-harvest structure. It doesn’t need the protection of a cold frame or anything. So you may not be sitting in it in January, but you’ll be going out to shovel the snow off those cold frames or to keep the hoop tunnels from a heavy snow load. You want to have them a little lower. The general rule of thumb for planting a winter vegetable garden in Zones 7 to 10 is to plant during October. I gather lots and lots of leaves—even my neighbors’ and my sister’s; everybody gathers leaves for me. Winter Gardening + Harvesting Tips From Niki Jabbour | HGTV I tried 4 by 8, but the tops are so heavy to lift. And we spoke just in time for all of us us to order the seeds and learn the tactics we’ll need to grow our own offseason gardens, too. What’s the range to the tricks of your trade up there? For cold frames, I generally stick to things that are more compact. Begin typing your search above and press return to search. There are lots of ways to be a year-round vegetable gardener, and one of the ways—especially to engage my kids in fun things—is to grow pea shoots. Q. I’m grateful that Doug returned to the podcast in autumn to do just that. The subtitle of University of Delaware professor Doug Tallamy’s recent book, “Nature’s Best Hope,” is “A New Approach to Conservation that Starts in Your Yard.” Meaning: The choices we make all year-round, including the very important one of how we clean up, can help counteract an overdeveloped, fragmented landscape that puts the food web to the test. It was delicious, and I was like, “What can I do here?” So we covered it with the row cover you mentioned, and harvested it for maybe four, five or six more weeks, which was astonishing to me. Thank you for this wonderful interview. Some of my favorite cold season crops include kale, endive, leeks, broccoli, cabbage, lettuce, carrots, spinach and parsley. Q. About Niki Jabbour: Niki is a garden writer and radio host from Halifax, Nova Scotia. Veggie Garden Remix celebrates diversity in the garden and spotlights some of my favorite unusual, global or uncommon edibles like burr gherkins, cucamelons, Inca berries, chickpeas, Yukina savoy, celtuce and about 235 other awesome crops. And then the easiest way to extend your season is mulch. Q. (Photos courtesy of Niki Jabbour. ], Q. So it keeps the soil from freezing solid it stays diggable, right? Having read it from cover to cover, I can honestly … Design-Your-Garden Toolkit, Michelle Gervais. Because I grow a global vegetable garden, I do sometimes buy seeds in bulk from the bulk food store. He happens to sell them so that was easy for me. Winter vegetables need a solid start before winter arrives, because once cold, dark days settle in, plants won’t grow gangbusters, like they do in the summer months. A. I tried 2 by 4 and 2 by 3, but they’re just too small to plant. Niki Jabbour The first frost used to be the end of the vegetable gardening season — but not anymore! I get all these mulched leaves and it’s a treasure. Also reading the seed catalogs; there are a lot of clues. Instead, I save that precious garden space for the cold-hardy vegetables and herbs that we can harvest all winter long. Purchases from Amazon affiliate links yield a small commission.). In the book I included all these fun little ways to get around the hot, dry summer. 4 Winter Gardening Structures To Build. I’ve had them in the past but don’t right now. “I usually put an old bed sheet on top of that just to hold the straw or the leaves in place, a… Q. I’m feeling as if this is a really good year for talking “offseason” edible gardens, because many of us are experiencing—as the world is experiencing—unfamiliar or harsh conditions in the usual “growing season.” I’ve been extra-hot, extra-dry, and sometimes I just couldn’t  coax certain second sowings to germinate and thrive. Last year I planted lettuce, basil, and even parsley when I got back from vacation after Labor Day. I like mache—it’s one of my favorite greens. It can save you a lot of money. A. Now I will start some lettuce and kale from seed. I bring in the pots of herbs, hoping there will be enough light to keep them happy. I hope that everyone who loves to experiment in their gardens joins me on this global food journey. So arugula was your gateway drug into season extension. Thanks so much for bringing the idea of year round gardening to our attention. So delicious. Things like leeks, or tall mature kale plants, or collard greens—they do best under a mini-hoop tunnel. In our last minutes, I have to ask you: Did you really bulldoze that super-productive garden of yours, Niki? I think I read about it in one of Eliot Coleman’s books many years ago. Right now there is still time even in our Northern gardens, to plant some things that we will harvest in the fall. They’ll get burned, or frozen from the cold damage. our greens harvest through the winter. So do the leafy greens, the compact kales or baby kale, they’re just made for cold frames. I switched to a hard double polycarbonate material [like Lexan]. In winter, you can lift the ends of the tunnel and harvest your bounty of greens. I also use my season extenders, like mini hoop tunnels, so I can plant heat-loving, long-season crops like ground cherries, eggplants and peppers earlier in the spring. Growing attractive edibles right into, and even through, the winter. Early on, I found the biggest challenge was finding seeds for my winter garden. It absolutely was—it’s a very dangerous salad green. You just named a bunch. I’m in Seattle, so frost is only occasional, but I think mulching might up my percentage of success in my raised bed. Jan 22, 2014 - A blog about my adventures as a professional garden writer, radio show host and obsessive veggie gardener! Nov 15, 2012 - A blog about my adventures as a professional garden writer, radio show host and obsessive veggie gardener! My mind is in overdrive thinking of the possibilities. But with help from Niki Jabbour, let’s be more polite and talk.. I’d love to win that book! We all planted in.. These structures capture solar energy and create a microclimate around our vegetables. Q. [3 steps to winter carrots, from Niki’s blog.]. A. It’s matching size to structure. But in winter, the bacteria or fungi that cause most common garden diseases are inactive or have been killed by the cold temperatures. I do it quickly, so it doesn’t get icy. My beds are all raised beds, which makes season extension a snap. 2019 Program Guide, Bailey Nurseries. [Laughter.] The great thing about winter veggies is the wide variety of texture they offer. Q. What’s the proportion you like for a cold frame? Even insects like aphids aren’t an issue when the temperature is freezing. We harvest it until March or April, and it will eventually start flowering by February or March–and we eat the flowers in our salads. My picks of garden gear, books, and mulch, mulch more, all things I use myself. Hi great interview! A. And it’s upped my garden game, I think. The miners out there would eat it, so it has been eaten for many years. It has to be “Star Wars” for it to work, for the correct thermal value? Therefore, I plant it as a late fall crop, and also again in early spring for an April-May harvest, but I don’t give it space in our winter harvest beds. A. A. I think the first thing you need to think about is what do you like to eat. That happens every couple of decades. I’d usually start with some salad crops, and baby kale, or kale plants under a mini-hoop tunnel. You can buy it at various home improvement warehouses and garden supply centers. Niki Jabbour's Veggie Garden Remix, Niki Jabbour. I sow the seed, I’m done. Q. I was going to say: I’m seeing this solid glacier, this iceberg made of straw. But first the fence and hotwire for elk, deer and bear, and ongoing gopher control. Some things don’t want to germinate, or it’s a lot of work to be out watering two or three times a day. I’m feeling that I have to concentrate on that, rather than on the normal gardening. Don't miss HGTV in your favorite social media feeds. Those go over the top usually in late November. The first few years I did this, I had no idea what I was doing. MY WEEKLY public-radio show, rated a “top-5 garden podcast” by “The Guardian” newspaper in the UK, began its seventh year in March 2016. Niki Jabbour's Veggie Garden Remix: 224 New Plants to Shake Up Your Garden and Add Variety, Flavor, and Fun. And this year I’m not that organized, because I’m planning ahead for the next book and the photography. When it comes to shielding crops from the elements, Jabbour uses a variety of methods and materials. Bio: Niki Jabbour is the award-winning author of three books - The Year-Round Vegetable Gardener (2012 American Horticultural Society Book Award), Groundbreaking Food Gardens, and Niki Jabbour's Veggie Garden Remix (Winner of the 2019 American Horticultural Society Book Award, Winner of the Gold Award from GardenComm, and short-listed for a 2019 Taste Canada Award). Q. I told a friend of mine who’s an organic seed farmer that I really wanted to grow pea shoots like he does, sowing them really thickly. I KNOW A LOT of gardeners, including myself, who might be called oddballs. It’s not always successful, but everything lasts for a bit longer. I’m in sunny coastal Central California (San Luis Obispo), so we have much milder winters with lows in the 40’s. Get the most out of your garden this winter with these simple tips. Well, I just came across the book “The Year-Round Vegetable Gardener,” by Niki Jabbour, so I bought it and am just starting to dive into it. We were ready to build, we had all the hemlock delivered. It was the arugula. Just say something like “count me in,” and I will. Picking the right crops to grow is very important. So 3 by 6 is the perfect size cold frame. It just adds a little fun to the garden. My first book, the award-winning, The Year Round Vegetable Gardener, was published in 2012 and Groundbreaking Food Gardens hit shelves in March 2014! Great read, get the ideas flowing, thank you!! My first book, the award-winning, The Year Round Vegetable Gardener, was published in 2012 and Groundbreaking Food Gardens hit shelves in March 2014! Learn how your comment data is processed. When you took us through the tools of the trade, you didn’t say “unheated greenhouse,” but in your book you have mini-profiles of some people with unheated greenhouses. But how much longer are you sowing and transplanting into this garden that may then be under a blanket, or under the lid of a cold frame, or high tunnel. Niki will share some of her favorite season-extending devices like cold frames and mini hoop tunnels, as well as spotlight the best cold-tolerant cr I had a “Salad table top” raised bed made this spring that allows me to stand up & sow & harvest basil, cilantro & thyme. But it’s also very insulating because of the twin-wall material. 5 Ways to Grow More Food in Less Space. And then I use cold frames, which are like magic boxes that extend your season very easily and efficiently, and make winter harvesting easy, which is nice. But then as the weather gets colder, it really pops up all of a sudden. It was inspired by my mother-in-law, a Lebanese immigrant who taught me to flex my gardening skills and try growing new-to-me Middle Eastern crops like edible gourds, purslane and zaatar. This is absolutely fascinating. A. I found what works best for me is a 3 by 6 foot cold frame. In spring and fall, I make sure to vent my structures often by propping open the tops of the cold frames or clipping up the ends of the mini hoop tunnels to allow good air circulation. I’ve considered getting this book anyway. That would be another way to go. They are going to be going into the garden hopefully if we get some rain in the next day or two. I generally use row cover to extend the season in spring and fall. I will have a bed that’s totally prepared, and I will sow very cold-tolerant things like arugula, or Asian greens, or spinach, chard or endive—any number of hardy greens. Follow your zany muse and get creative with your vegetable garden. A. Press Esc to cancel. You don’t want things touching the top glass or plastic. A NEIGHBOR with a new cold frame emailed me the other day, seeing colder weather finally in the forecast and wanting to know how to extend his season even longer inside the unit. Q. A. Pokemon works OK; it doesn’t have to be “Star Wars,” but something of that genre. So I need some “Star Wars” bed sheets, and I need a “magic box,” a.k.a. Niki Jabbour, author of The Year-Round Vegetable Gardener, is a food gardener and garden writer who lives near Halifax, Nova Scotia. Niki Jabbour is an author, blogger, radio host and gardening expert from Halifax, Nova Scotia. I was just playing around and experimenting, but I had so much success because it is so easy to do. Niki shares a ton of practical and insightful tips on how to keep your summer garden flourishing, navigating slugs, zucchini issues, powdery mildew hacks, tomato tantrums and more during our recent chat. Probably by mid- to late September.’I’ve just taken all of my seedlings of fall cabbages and Asian cabbages that were under my grow lights outdoors to harden off. She is one of the contributors to the blog Savvy Gardening and creator of the award-winning radio program, The Weekend Gardener, that’s heard throughout Eastern Canada. Margaret's weekly public-radio show, from Robin Hood Radio in Sharon, CT, the smallest NPR station in the nation. [Laughter.] We grow a wide variety of food in our fall and winter garden beds and many, like kale and carrots, get sweeter as the temperature drops. [Laughter.]. [Below, spinach in mini-hoop tunnel in March; read Niki’s blog about overwintering in a mini-hoop tunnel.]. Source: Youtube Winter Gardening | Year Round Vegetable Gardener Book Review. Award-winning author Niki Jabbour continues to harvest a wide assortment of vegetables and herbs in her fall and winter garden in Halifax, Nova Scotia! So a foot and a half of loose straw or leaves, and cover it with row cover—or even an old “Star Wars” bed sheet to hold that mulch down and in place [use rocks to hold down the sheet]. The winter season can yield some incredible plants, vegetables, and fruits—given that you are armed with expert knowledge. Winter Gardener’s Clock- When should I start a winter garden? For instance, I use my grow-lights all summer long for succession plantings, and I am still using them now to start all my cold-season cabbages, and kohlrabis, and even leeks for fall and winter harvesting, and more hardy herbs and greens. [Niki’s blog post on the project, with photos.]. I buy chickpeas, lentils—and then plant them in the garden. Q. I love that. LISTEN OR SUBSCRIBE FREE: WHEW! The easiest way to start stretching your season is with mulch. You don’t have to build new things to be a cold-season harvester; you can use things that are around you as well. We had to bring the contractor back in to help us build the beds, so the cost did go up a little bit. Two crops that I haven’t really grown the way that I saw in your book: One was Claytonia, the miner’s lettuce. Nikki Jabbour wrote a fantastic book that has become a useful reference in my library. Say hello to your fall friends: radishes, broccoli, greens and more!Â. I always put my light stand away, and I think, “How silly am I?” [Laughter.]. However, in recent years, our climate has begun to change and our summers have definitely gotten longer and warmer. A. That’s a good one. Q. You can subscribe to all future editions on iTunes or Stitcher (and browse my archive of podcasts here). This my first attempt at this and I hope it works out well. Well, serendipitously, later that day I went to the post office and found a review copy of Niki Jabbour’s new book, “Growing Under Cover,” waiting for me, and had some answers for my neighbor. A. I don’t use glass for the top, either. Then you can lift it and harvest whenever. I grow herbs indoors in the winter — oregano, chives, bay leaves, lavender. Her book, The Year Round Vegetable Gardener (Storey Publishing) will be available in December 2011. Her first book, The Year Round Vegetable Gardener, focuses on tips and tricks to grow healthy edibles all year long, and her second title, Groundbreaking Food Gardens: 73 Plans That Will Change the Way You Grow Your Garden, opens your eyes to an infinite number of ways to grow your own food. It’s so ridiculously cold-tolerant. Required fields are marked *. New large in-ground garden going in, new greenhouse and plans for hoop houses – who knows what fun awaits! Read along as you listen to the Aug. 8, 2016 edition of my public-radio show and podcast using the player below. Niki Jabbour - The Year Round Veggie Gardener A blog about my adventures as a professional garden writer, radio show host and obsessive veggie gardener! For example, Swiss chard is a fall garden superstar but tends to succumb to the frigid temperatures in our garden by December. I just planted eggplant, spaghetti squash, cauliflower, peas, romaine lettuce, and carrots last week (October 20th). I really like the idea of the newly designed garden with several tall raised beds. A. They’re only going to grow for about a month. In 2016, the show won three silver medals for excellence from the Garden Writers Association. My first book, the award-winning, The Year Round Vegetable Gardener, was published in 2012 and Groundbreaking Food Gardens hit shelves in … I love it! [Laughter.]. One year I actually thought I’d be clever, and I had some straw bales. How long ago did you first break outside of the normal gardening calendar season? Q. Yours are made from wood. In The Year-Round Vegetable Gardener, Nova Scotia–based gardener and writer Niki Jabbour shares her secrets for growing food during every month of the year. But if I’m going to gingerly wade into this and extend my season into November, December and so on—which ones should I start with? Follow this tip to grow green vegetables during winter. Your email address will not be published. It can be hard because this week I am sowing carrots, for fall and winter harvesting, and it is hot and dry. How deep, wide, tall? It’s the only time I don’t fight the deer — they can’t reach the crops under mulch, cold frames or mini hoop tunnels —  and there are no slugs and other pests. Gardening is like that, isn’t it? And she raises fresh vegetables all year long, so she knows it can be done. Is it set into the ground? You can find her book here: Check out our post that has some winter gardening tips and a further review of Nikki’s book: Nikki Jabbour is definitely an expert in winter gardening. So it kind of helps me overcome the hot, dry weather of summer. I have cabbage and broccoli in one bed and am hardening off some other seedlings. TRADE . There are some books out there for market gardeners that are wonderful—reading what other people are doing. Dave and Maggie are trilled to welcome award-winning author Niki Jabbour back to the show. A. My first season extender was a fabric row cover that allowed me to stretch our homegrown arugula harvest by weeks. Grab your stock pot! Using metal mini-hoops to hold up the tunnels, “The Year-Round Vegetable Gardener: How to Grow Your Own Food 365 Days a Year No Matter Where You Live,”, notable natives, from mountain laurel to milkweed, with andy brand, making meadows, with longwood gardens’ tom brightman, making the switch to native groundcovers, with duncan himmelman of mt. I host a public-radio podcast; I also lecture, plus hold tours at my 2.3-acre Hudson Valley (NY) Zone 5B garden, and always say no to chemicals and yes to great plants. Feb 2, 2013 - A blog about my adventures as a professional garden writer, radio show host and obsessive veggie gardener! Oct 25, 2012 - A blog about my adventures as a professional garden writer, radio show host and obsessive veggie gardener! I’m a garden writer and radio host from Halifax, Nova Scotia which is located on the east coast of Canada where the growing season is short and winters are often cold and snowy. You do have to keep them clean, yes. It’s a native plant to California, and actually helped prevent scurvy during the Gold Rush, because it would come up in early spring. I am limited by the size of my garden but do utilize containers and am planning a raised bed for next spring. Niki writes for a wide variety of magazines and newspapers, including Fine Gardening, Horticulture, Garden Making and Birds & Blooms. Leaves stay clean and are at a good height for two older backs! We grow lettuces that are started in the greenhouse, then grow on in gallon pots on the south-facing porch on the picnic table. We just had a Cold Frame 101—I needed a remedial class in cold frames. Those planks are 2 inches thick, and the backs of my cold frames are about 18 inches tall and the fronts are about a foot. A. I first became aware of Canadian garden writer and radio host Niki Jabbour when she asked me to appear on her Weekend Gardener radio program several years ago. If you’re looking for a good gardening book to curl up with this winter, Groundbreaking Food Gardens is my pick for 2014. Her articles have appeared in Canadian Gardening, Garden Making, Gardens East, The Heirloom Gardener, and other publications. I just started my garden from scratch again, and I’ve reserved a space for a 14- or 16-foot poly tunnel by 24 feet. But you don’t need one. But Niki Jabbour…well, she puts me to shame, with not just multiple summer sowings and then September or October salads and kale and peas to pick, but a list of 30ish cold-season crops she can harvest after that, from November through March–even in her Nova Scotia backyard (roughly equivalent to USDA Zone 6). But I do shovel off the cold frames. I’LL BUY A COPY of Niki Jabbour’s “The Year-Round Vegetable Gardener: How to Grow Your Own Food 365 Days a Year No Matter Where You Live,” for one lucky reader. The space has just transformed into this lovely space that I sit in every day. (Stream it below,  read the illustrated transcript or subscribe free.). Are there examples of different crops that match up best with one of these tactics, or don’t? Q. Want to plan your most ecologically minded garden cleanup ever, and understand the consequences of each potential action you can take—including next spring? Rabbits ate every spec of lettuce I planted this year. I love adding them to pasta just after you drain it, you kind of wilt them a little bit in there. Then in late February or early March, we have more daylength, and as we get more light things start to grow under that mini-hoop tunnel. These are arched over a garden bed and secured to the ground over one-foot-long rebar stakes. Cover the hoops with clear plastic and weigh the plastic down with rocks or logs. Welcome! Q. I love that your “Year-Round” book starts with the sentence, “It all started with a row cover.” [Laughter.] Spruce up your outdoor space with products handpicked by HGTV editors. All you have to do to enter is answer this question in the comments box by scrolling all the way down the page, after the last reader comment: Do you grow any edibles in the “offseason,” whether indoors or under cover or in a greenhouse–even if just a few extra weeks before or after frost with row covers and the like? With a few steps and some planning, you can enjoy garden fresh vegetables all winter. You just want to make sure you buy seed from a company that specializes in growing shoots and sprouts, because some seed of course has been treated, and you should avoid that when you’re going to grow them as a food source. For me, the cold season is a quiet time in the garden. Usually my last sowing of something would be in October—late October—but that’s not something I expect to eat right away. They’re tiny and nice to add to your salads. I thought, “This is cool,” and wondered what else I could grow into late fall and even longer, and started to research. I can tell you to grow carrots, but you might be like, “I’m not that fond of carrots.” You should pick what you like to eat. Now, it’s all about growing the right crops in the right season and pairing them with the right season extenders. Garden expert Niki Jabbour coming to Phipps Written by Doug Oster on Tuesday, 10 June 2014 11:01 am . Book (Technical/Reference) The History of Landscape Design in 100 Gardens, Timber Press. 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