Nearly two years after my initial conversation in podcast episode 022, my Growing a Greener World® TV crew and I were finally standing in the year-round vegetable garden of Niki Jabbour to film an entire episode around her four-season growing success while defying extremely challenging conditions of USDA zone 5b in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
In spite of a very short growing season (the first frost of the year shows up about mid-October, and the last is typically mid-May), Niki Jabbour knows every trick in the book and more to get the most out of her year-round garden. From time tested winners including row covers and cold frames, to her newest addition, a large polytunnel/greenhouse located adjacent to large raised bed vegetable garden.
Niki Jabbour made big strides to her year-round vegetable gardening productivity with the recent addition of her new poly-tunnel. (photo: Courtesy Niki Jabbour)
This podcast is an encore edition of our original podcast episode 022 and conversation with Niki from October 2017. Be sure to check out the extensive show notes there, including a lot more pictures of her garden and helpful links.
New for this podcast is our television episode for 0ur 10th season of my national PBS television series, Growing a Greener World®. You can watch the entire episode right now, right here (and ahead of its national television premiere on 11/30/19. You don’t want to miss this first-ever opportunity to see this garden and meet Niki from our television episode.
Two years after the original podcast with Niki Jabbour about her year-round vegetable garden, we were finally able to visit Niki in her year-round vegetable garden.
Links & Resources
Original Episode 022: The Year-round Vegetable Gardener with Niki Jabbour
The Online Gardening Academy and Master Seed Starting Notification Signup
The joe gardener Amazon Storefront
The Year-round Vegetable Gardener book: Great growing tips and timing on when to plant no matter where you live.
Veggie Garden Remix (238 new plants to shake up your garden for variety, flavor, and fun)
Groundbreaking Food Gardens by Niki Jabbour
Savvy Gardening website co-founded by Niki
Rain Bird®– Podcast episode sponsor and Brand Partner of joegardener.com
Pete and Gerry’s Organic Eggs – Podcast episode sponsor and Brand Partner of joegardener.com
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