Growing Under Cover: Techniques for a More Productive, Weather-Resistant, Pest-Free Vegetable Garden - Paperback

by Niki Jabbour (Author)

Increasingly unpredictable weather patterns and pest infestations are challenging today's vegetable gardeners. But best-selling author Niki Jabbour has a solution: Growing Under Cover. In this in-depth guide, Jabbour shows how to use small solutions like cloches, row covers, shade cloth, cold frames, and hoophouses, as well as larger protective structures like greenhouses and polytunnels, to create controlled growing spaces for vegetables to thrive. Photographed in her own super-productive garden, Jabbour highlights the many benefits of using protective covers to plant earlier, eliminate pests, and harvest a healthier, heartier bounty year round. With enthusiasm, inventive techniques, and proven, firsthand knowledge, this book provides invaluable advice from a popular and widely respected gardening authority.

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Grow your best garden no matter what Mother Nature throws at you.

Niki Jabbour's successful techniques for producing a continuous harvest in the vegetable garden have been embraced by fans of her bestseller The Year-Round Vegetable Gardener. Now she expands the options for extending the growing season by using protective covers to create controlled spaces for vegetables to thrive. With these methods, you can plant earlier, harvest later, keep pests at bay, and protect crops from sudden changes in the weather. Learn how to deploy different types of garden covers effectively to:

- Increase germination
- Minimize transplant shock
- Keep plants from bolting
- Protect plants from frost
- Deter pests
- Maintain consistent temperatures
- Harvest food year-round