Growing a Greener World Episode 1013: The Year-Round Gardener

Meet Niki Jabbour. She’s the real year-round vegetable gardener. She easily earned that badge of honor by actually doing it from one of the most unlikely of places, Halifax, Nova Scotia. The first frost of the year shows up about mid-October, and the last is typically mid-May. Niki harvests fresh produce from her garden 365 days a year. We invite you to meet Niki and get a behind-the-scenes look into many of the tips and techniques Niki uses to grow her year-round vegetable garden.
Want to learn more? Visit the show notes from our original podcast with Niki about year-round vegetable gardening: joegardener.co...

[@cbak1819]

I agree with Niki, hand watering is my time with the garden.

[@ggwtv]

Same here!!

[@nikijabbour]

Thank you so much Joe for visiting my garden and sharing my garden story :)

[@venetogardens]

Your garden is awesome. You have a new follower.

[@spoolsandbobbins]

Niki Jabbour this video is such an inspiration to our homeschooling family. We’ve undertaken a gardening project which demands so much inspiration and education and you’ve been that! A big thanks from Fall River!

[@nikijabbour]

@@venetogardens Thanks so much!

[@nikijabbour]

@@spoolsandbobbins Hi neighbour! Are you on FB or IG? I'd love to follow your project!

[@spoolsandbobbins]

Niki Jabbour thanks so much for your response. We adopted our 5 six years ago and homeschool. We just started our gardens this year so I’ve been too busy to blog our progress. But a vision is coming together and I hope to start something. Let’s keep in touch and I’ll swing you a note when we’re up and running! God bless you ❤️

[@HealthyFreshHomegrown]

Niki is a great example that anything is possible. She didn't let the climate she lives in stop her. I have her book "The Year-Round Gardener" and it should be on every food growers bookshelf. Love her hoop house! Greetings from Victoria, BC, Canada 🇨🇦

[@nikijabbour]

Thanks so much!! :) Victoria is on my to-visit list!

[@jessms9839]

I wish there was a longer list of the flowers she's growing! What a beautiful vegetable garden with all those companion flowers

[@shelly5596]

One of my favorite gardening books is Niki's The Year-Round vegetable Gardner

[@SavvyGardening]

We love this! So great to see our Niki Jabbour featured in this awesome episode :)

[@donnabalzerhelpinggardener3271]

Helping gardener's grow... it's what Niki does on her own and now with Joe's help. Good job guys. Love that we are all working on this amazing pursuit - congrats

[@dkulikowski]

Thank you and your staff for the knowledge, tips and techniques you have shown us throughout the year. Please tell Nicky thank you also. I love her energy and inspiration. I especially am thankful for Nicky sharing her garden with all of us. Spreading the word of 'feeding the soil'.

[@aok2727]

I was excited to hear this would be available before it is aired. It’s a joy to finally see Niki J in her garden. Such fun. Thanks for sharing

[@ThePattiw]

I am huge fan of Nikki Jabour! I live in Owen Sound ON and the wind can be a huge issue in the winter, but I hope to have a small hoop-house soon! Thanks Nikki! And Joe

[@summermoongarden]

I started my first vegetable garden last year. I got a late start and it didn’t do as well as I hoped! I’ve got most of my fall/winter crops in now and it’s doing better. Just gotta keep trying new and different things! I live just north of you in Cumming, Joe, so I can identify with the challenges of growing in the Deep South! If you ever do a tour of your garden sign me up!! I am thankful for your show-keep up the good work!! And happy thanksgiving 🥧🍗🍁🍂

[@MilkAndHoneyAcreage]

Lauren Gormly Don’t give up there’s no failures just learning opportunities!

[@SuperPhoReal]

when is the next episode? I can't get enough of this

[@timjackson9881]

Very inspiring.

[@vithalbhaipatel1013]

Good show. Well information.

[@venetogardens]

What an inspiring and beautiful edible garden. Thank you for sharing.

[@nancyword3814]

Outstanding!!!!

[@mayaneff3728]

Ground cherries! They really are a great crop to grow, and so so easy.

[@swahebambugua7707]

greener world it is,,,the diversity on her farm is great.

[@dianebateman6808]

Awesome! Great information and knowledge. I live in Zone 3 Alberta Canada and a short growing season too, wonderful info for fall planting. Something I just have not done here, time to change that. Thank you Joe for sharing Niki with us.

[@asbjorgvanderveer5050]

Great to see Canada so well represented on GGW! Wonderful garden! Had raised beds growing in Edmonton where earlier warming, and better drainage was a huge deal. I'm in love with this Nova Scotia gardening... harvesting arugula, mustard greens, kale and Italian parsley into December, along with carrots, beets and spinach. Nothing better for a winter stew. ❤️

[@nikijabbour]

:)

[@spoolsandbobbins]

Yay, thanks Joe for doing a video/show from Nova Scotia!!! I’m in the neighbourhood and you’ve introduced me to such an amazing gardener so close by and in the same zone. We just started our vegie/fruit and flier gardens this year and I think this is going to be so helpful!!! God bless, from Fall River

[@codetwoAJ]

Excellent episode! One of my all time favourites.

[@nikijabbour]

Thank you!!

[@cherylmarkwardt1042]

Wow, what motivation to be diligent about a fall/winter garden. Your zinnias are just gorgeous.

[@karenlatham4053]

So inspiring! She has a beautiful garden!

[@MilkAndHoneyAcreage]

Karen Latham Ditto! 💜💜💜

[@PK-bh1ww]

My grandma grew ground cherries and I used to get in trouble for eating them out of her garden...And swiping raspberries off the bush too. Memories. :-)

[@TheCocaFamilia]

So so beautiful place, excellent job

[@alisonburgess345]

Wow - this gives me a bit of hope! I’m going into my first spring summer here in Australia, in a sub-alpine location (2100 feet up) but with excellent soil. Just had a frost even though it’s almost summer. Great video with a terrific upbeat gardener, Niki!

[@litaholloway2721]

❤️❤️❤️

[@margaretkitchen6748]

Listened to the podcast so had to watch the episode! Inspiring!

[@farmgardenriseup]

Hello Joe. All the way from Kenya, your vlogs hv been a great inspiration to me everyday i learn and put them in practice.

[@muurisoras5878]

Am also Kenyan & an avid watcher of this show. I love gardening!

[@jnicolettebailey]

Just realized in what a wonderful area I live in and not utilising it to full potential: Zone 10B. Expanding my veg area with immediate effect. Sunny greetings. PS love the videos Joe, hooked!

[@nikijabbour]

Zone 10B... wow, I can't even imagine!! :)

[@farnorthhomested844]

I grew carrots all thru the winter last year. still have some growing, although I don't think they will last much longer unless I protect them again. last year it was hay bales with a glass cover.

[@iamactuallyover18]

Awesome tour! I assumed she would focus on cold hardy herbaceous perennials, fruits, nuts, etc but it's interesting that her focus remains on annual vegetables

[@bettyjorodgers8552]

Loved it!! Thank you. Blessings

[@troyeager8877]

I really enjoyed this segment! I truly want to grow my own organic food. I do it. But small scale. I want to go big. So much produce I've never tried to grow.

[@sylviabradley7355]

I have Niki’s book and have been working towards 12 month gardening in zone 6 a.

[@nikijabbour]

Awesome, that's so great to hear!

[@jeanque04]

WoW , i love thé style of gardening 💝 watching and greetings from Belgium

[@milkweed7678]

Great video! Love trying to grow stuff successfully in the winter. I have her winter growing book. I wish you could find some who know how to grow sweet corn in a raised bed or the 30" wide beds that don't have wood sides. You didn't talk about her corn but it looked bad noticing it in the video. Many have bad looking corn in all the gardening videos. I have lots of space and grow 30" rows 12-15 inches apart in the rows in 5 dozen size plots. I would like to grow smaller amounts without helping pollinating. That would be some interesting video with some good fertilizing. Most don't even fertilize properly. Thanks

[@nikijabbour]

Ha.. my corn this year was an experimental variety which did yield, but due to our slow 2019 spring, it was a few weeks later than expected. I usually grow corn in an in-ground bed at the end of my garden where they can get 10 plus feet tall.

[@ecocentrichomestead6783]

2:30 hey! it's a full day's drive and a four hour ferry ride from Halifax to the most eastern city in Canada!!!

[@nikijabbour]

And I've been here - Love Newfoundland! :)

[@ke3347]

I can’t understand why ground cherries aren’t sold in stores. They’re delicious, prolific, and stay fresh for a long time.

[@nikijabbour]

Totally agree!!

[@merylslabbert3570]

Your garden cherries resemble gooseberries -- any relation?

[@TheFragrantBunch]

Amazing episode and I love her book Veggie Garden Remix!! Can’t wait to grow my own ground cherries next season :)

[@MilkAndHoneyAcreage]

Jessica X Do it I love growing ground cherries! My favorite! 💜💜💜

[@georgemaerkle3427]

Loved the interview👍 I’m getting Niki’s book

[@GoingGreenMom]

How do you keep root veg like carrots from rotting as the ground freezes and thaws over winter? Or are you able to dig them because the ground never really freezes?

[@ggwtv]

I place a thick layer of straw over the plants-about a foot high. The insulates the ground enough so it doesn’t freeze. Then when you need to harvest, just pull back the mulch a bit and harvest what you need. I don’t know if there is a lower limit to temperature before even a think layer doesn’t fully work but this technique is used even in Nova Scotia and works there too. Ideally you would have a cold frame and sow seeds into that for extra protection. But that should not be necessary except if you’re in a very cold region.

[@GoingGreenMom]

@@ggwtv K. I'll see about testing it this winter if I can get my hands on some straw. I know our plumbing has to be at least 6 feet down to be below the hard freeze line, but if a foot of straw works that would be awesome and then I would have lots of mulch to use in the spring too.

[@syeduddin3114]

Fantastic massive garden. How many people usually work for this beautiful garden?

[@patriciamccrea8236]

Please. Go to SEED SAVERS in Decorah Iowa. That would be a wonderful show!

[@atefbasha1809]

PLEASE help me with you .. PLEASE!!!THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR SHARING YOUR

[@jpalabama7498]

Thank you for your cite do you have any ideas about my plants growing and looking healthy but not producing any vegetables?

[@cbak1819]

I started seed starting all year long and my electric bill is very high. Any suggestions?

[@ggwtv]

I assume a big reason for you higher bill is due to the lights and germination heat mats. You shouldn’t need to use them all year. I sow seeds all year as well but only use my lights and heat mats in the colder months.

[@mjawolfe1]

Hi, Like the videos and content. Thanks putting these together. What are the dimensions of your raised bed area and the size of your raised beds. Really like the look and layout.

[@Atimatimukti]

I think people should listen very careful to what Niki is saying. There are extraordinary tips at every corner. I will listen several times, this is too precisous not to :-). Thank you

[@lindawright8949]

This is probably off topic of episode but I have been looking for a specific type of rose. Dont know the name of it but it is about the size of a small saucer plate has a very sweet and robust scent and the one I saw was burgundy red. I love it but haven't been able to find it if at all possible could you tell me approximately what I might have described to you and where I might be able to get it. Thank you very much.

[@atefbasha1809]

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[@syalutsa]

TO skip the ads start at 1:22.

[@jerryspinosa5466]

what to do about squash bugs destroying all my zucchini plants

[@moonpathwoman]

What a sweet and vibrant young lady.

[@jimmyflorian4465]

Can you put subtitles in spanish!

[@jimmyflorian4465]

Please

[@warriorking6477]

Mann..she can talk! Lovely garden though

[@atefbasha1809]

When....ta to take me to USA !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!PLEASE!!!!PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@1jw298]

Wow she’s a keeper! What a babe! She’s has one lucky husband

[@jeffreyjanoyanbagus308]

My least favorite vegetable is not in the garden. :)

[@atefbasha1809]

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[@vithalbhaipatel1013]

Well information. Good show.

[@jpalabama7498]

Thank you for your cite do you have any ideas about my plants growing and looking healthy but not producing any vegetables?