Another fall/winter activity for Plant Growers in the off season…. reading.
“A Gardener’s Guide to Frost” by Philip Harnden ( ISBN 1-57223-576-4 ) is flowing, wonderful to read book with lots of great frosty garden pictures. Covering a complete set of topics exploring a vegetable gardener’s relationship to frost including interesting chapters on Forecasting Frost, Fending Off Frost, and a listing of Frost Tolerant Garden Vegetables.
For those of us on Vancouver Island, “A Gardener’s Guide to Frost” is in the VIRL book collection.