17 of The Best Podcast Episodes for Niki Jabbour. I’m grateful that Doug returned to the podcast in autumn to do just that. What about that? don’t stop now! I feel fortunate to be part of Niki Jabbour’s Veggie Garden Remix: 224 New Plants to Shake Up Your Garden and Add Variety, Flavor, and Fun book launch. Yeah, for sure. In winter, the top is still open and clear, so the sun can still get inside, but you can also put evergreen boughs around the outside of them, too, for that extra insulation. Read along as you listen to the January 4, 2021 edition of my public-radio show and podcast using the player below. Niki: Figs are big here. Thank you. So it’s not as important for me to make sure the light is getting into that cold frame for the root crops versus the salad greens, like the spinach or the lettuce or the arugula, where they’re still slowly growing and they still need that solar energy to warm up the interior of the frame during the day. But I take those polycarbonate cold frames and I put leaves or straw around the perimeter of them just to bulk up. WHEN I TALKED to Doug Tallamy in February around the publication date of his latest book, “Nature’s Best Hope,” I didn’t want to go on and on about the advice in it regarding smart fall cleanup, which is one of the ways I know I’ve dramatically shifted the way I manage my own garden compared to 10 or even five years ago. There are many uses for cold frames. For more click here, For info on the book “The Year Round Vegetable Gardener” click here, For info on the book “Groundbreaking Food Gardens” click here, For info on the book “Niki Jabbour’s Veggie Garden Remix” click here, For more info on growing zones in Canada click here, For information on the amazing wine region of Nova Scotia click here, Watch SEA AND BE SCENE TV at Nova Scotia’s Winter Wine Festival by clicking here, For information on High Bush Blueberries click here, For lots of fun with Neville McKay check out our segment from the SABStv Spring Special by clicking here, For more information on Seattle’s Northwest Flower & Garden Show click here, Check out Niki’s award winning blog at SavvyGardening.com, For info on the Garden Writers Symposium click here, Fargo is indeed in North Dakota, Minnesota is a boarding state. I found your conversation with Niki inspiring and hope to try some “out-of-season” growing this year. If you were going to make them very deep in the ground—some people like to go very deep in the ground. Often people use heat sinks. Her articles have appeared in Canadian Gardening, Garden Making, Gardens East, and The Heirloom Gardener. Dec 9, 2019 - Niki Jabbour on Instagram: “If you’ve followed me for awhile, you probably know that I am obsessed with nasturtiums. It’s a lovely… [Laughter.]. Cloche means ‘bell’ in French and they’re often bell-shaped glass or plastic covers that you can pop over your veggies. But Niki Jabbour…well, she puts me.. Plus: We’ll have a book giveaway. Now living in zone 8 it seems I should be able to grow some greens throughout the winter (arugula, mizuna, spinach, and the miner’s lettuce mentioned). Niki: Yeah, for sure. Margaret: And it really is… Again, as I said in the introduction, not just season-extending, but it’s like insect prevention. Halifax Seed Company Inc., Canada’s oldest continuously operating family owned seed company, was established in 1866. Well, I’m glad you brought up also starting seedlings in the cold frame, because most of us I think at this point think cold frames are just for harvesting in winter or maybe pushing back spring a little earlier, so that you can start planting in March or even late February, depending where you live. Good luck to all. Used with permission from Storey Publishing. Do you cover them? They were each 3 by 6 feet, and I had three of them at the time. 2019-nov-13 - Cloches are one of the most basic season extenders and one that I use in both sp… Cloches are one of the most basic season extenders and one that I use in both spring and fall. And that’s all it takes for him in the very cold Zone 5, whatever, to have a reliable crop. Eat your greens. Her work is found in Fine Gardening, Garden Making, Birds & Blooms, Horticulture, and other publications, and she speaks widely on food gardening at events and shows across North America. You and I are nature’s best hope, and I’m glad Doug joined me again to help us learn to support it. Cloche means ‘bell’ in French and they’re often bell-shaped glass or plastic covers that you can pop over your veggies. I love mache and mizuna and mustards, all the different colors and textures. Aug 6, 2019 - 1,218 Likes, 17 Comments - Niki Jabbour (@nikijabbour) on Instagram: “It took longer this year with the cool spring but the bean tunnels are finally covered and…” Look for some of these more winter-hardy lettuces. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. And a much happier new year to ALL! [Laughter.]. Especially this last year, I’ve been jealous of my friends who have them and they’re saying, “Oh, I have my seedlings in the cold frame. You know what I mean? Or play the January 4, 2021 show using the player near the top of this transcript. I mean, that’s amazing to me, that it’s sunny here today and therefore the temperature inside the frame is just above freezing. Begin typing your search above and press return to search. Please count me in. You have everything. (Disclosure: includes affiliate links.). Niki Jabbour is the award-winning author of three gardening books, including The Year-Round Vegetable Gardener, Groundbreaking Food Gardens and Niki Jabbour's Veggie Garden Remix. My last harvest is red raspberries, sometimes as late as November. When I first put my cold frames in, oh my gosh, probably 18 years ago, the first frames I had, I put them in the part of my backyard where the snow always melted first, because I thought, well, obviously that’s a bit of a microclimate. 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. She knows a thing or two about extending the growing season. And I was therefore…” And he was like, “What can I do? And in the book, I talk about how to use those. Niki is author of The Year-Round Vegetable Gardener and a 2012 American Horticultural Society Book Award winner. Your email address will not be published. Winter lettuces, ‘Winter Density,’ ‘North Pole,’ ‘Winter Wonderland.’ It’s wonderful how many varieties of winter-hardy lettuces there are now, the Salanova types. View the profiles of people named Niki Jabbour. And here in Nova Scotia and beyond, I’m hearing from so many gardeners, they did put in a bigger structure this year. Niki’s garden is lush and efficient during the growing season. And do I dig it into the ground? I’LL BUY A COPY of Niki Jabbour’s “Growing Under Cover” for one lucky reader. 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. She easily earned that badge of honor by actually doing it from one of the most unlikely of places, Halifax, Nova Scotia. I think most people automatically go to season extension and protecting from cold weather. It’s minus-20 Celsius. Because, of course, we get rain and then overnight it’s going to freeze. It’s super-convenient to do as well. Some people put heavy-duty aluminum foil in the inside of them along the sides to help, again, reflect more light in. Last year, I did a test of them and most of them went all winter long with no extra protection other than the cold frame. You’ve tried all these tools, again, I said in the intro, from cloches to full-on polytunnels. Oh yes, my friend…you know how that is when you ask questions for a friend. And I will use insulating materials, like if I have a carrot cold frame. But we were looking ahead to spring then, not fall. And you can do things, a few tricks, to make them maybe a little more insulating, even straw bales. I use them for lots of things. Niki: Oh my gosh. In other words, should the back of the frame where the hinged part of the stash is, should that be higher than the front part, maybe where there’s a fastener or something like that? So that’s the whole job of a cold frame: to create a microclimate around your plants and start those seeds earlier and harvest earlier and harvest out of season. What other devices you’re really recommending or excited about or whatever? Niki Jabbour is the author of the best-selling, award winning book, The Year Round Vegetable Gardener (American Horticultural Society Book Award), Groundbreaking Food Gardens & Veggie Garden Remix (All published by Storey Publishing). Margaret: You just said claytonia. Fertilized by sea breezes, her gardens are comprised of a colourful mixture of perennials, annuals, herbs and flowering shrubs, with a few patches of clover and chickweed thrown in for good measure. And same with snow. You don’t have to go and buy anything. Those are the two main components of a cold frame, and they can be made from lots of different materials. I think the common name of that I think is miner’s lettuce. It doesn’t have to be super-steep, but you definitely want to have some angle so you do capture as much light as possible. You said snow insulation. Broadcast Date – November 1, 2017. Margaret: Right. I’ve never grown it, Niki: It tastes like spring. I mean, you’re just the woman with everything up there. Thanks for the inspiration! We all planted in.. I’M A BELIEVER in succession sowings, and regularly spread the message of fall harvests and other vegetable-garden second chances. [Laughter.] In the case of greenhouse, there’s usually fans and so forth to move out excess heat, not just keep heat in. And as you said a couple minutes ago, we have a different weather pattern. If there’s not a lot of space in there, it can be kind of hard to do. But if we do get a snow out there, I knock it off the tops. Margaret's weekly public-radio show, from Robin Hood Radio in Sharon, CT, the smallest NPR station in the nation. At this point, we don’t get snow as much as we used to 20 years ago. Maybe you want to grow vining cucumbers or melons in those in the summer. You know what I mean? With a creative approach, she introduces you to a wide variety of plants and gardening techniques and gives you the confidence to take your vegetable garden to the next level. It would be great to have fresh greens in the winter. In the introduction, I also said I was asking questions, ahem, for a friend. But I also use some of them for straw-bale cold frames. We have a Canadian fig expert for cold climates, Steven Biggs, and he has inspired me and he also has enabled me, because he keeps sending me cuttings. But the garden is still packed full of veggies…” The joe gardener Show - Organic Gardening - Vegetable Gardening - Expert Garden Advice From Joe Lamp'l. Niki: I mean, it can be super-simple. Margaret: On the other end of the season, you got a box with a lid and it gets hot in there in the summer. When you pick a bush variety with short vines and pair it with a…” Follow Niki Jabbour on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter. Niki Jabbour is an author, blogger, radio host and gardening expert from Halifax, Nova Scotia. I don’t know, honestly, but it was really fun to write and sort of revisit the whole season-extending, as well as the many other reasons besides harvesting in cold weather. And my gosh, I got a lot of use out of those three cold frames. Margaret: I wanted to just double back to the book. I mean, where do you find… It sounds like the cold frames are some of your tried-and-true companions that help you, but where else? Because again, my husband’s Lebanese and so many of the vegetables and things I grow are for his family, and figs are a big part of that. Niki: It had that little 6-inch differential, and I sunk them in the ground about 6 inches as well just for a little bit of extra installation. Join Facebook to connect with Niki Jabbour and others you may know. But things like mache and mizuna is direct-sown. It’s got these small beautiful leaves that are kind of almost diamond-shaped, but mature so that they’re almost like a waterlily. It was a very slight south-facing slope and the snow just always melted first there, so that’s where I sunk my cold frames. Niki Jabbour returns to the show to talk about her new book, "Growing Under Cover: Techniques for a More Productive, Weather-Resistant, Pest-Free Vegetable Garden." [Above, a polycarbonate frame at Niki’s with evegreen boughs and straw at the edges for added insulation.]. You don’t have to spend money to extend your season and use garden covers like this. I do go up there. It’s a bit succulent. Seriously, I actually do have a friend who just built cold frames. I often buy like 20 or 30 or more straw bales in the fall, and I pile them in my shed and in the back of my polytunnel for winter. Niki: Indeed. Affiliate Disclosure: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. 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