Meet the presenter

Guest author is a best-selling, award-winning garden writer with several books, among them The Year-Round Vegetable Gardener and Growing Under Cover. She has twice received the American Horticultural Society Book Award and has hosted a weekend gardening radio show for many years. Read more of her work at SavvyGardening.com.

OVERVIEW: Our guest, an award-winning author, explains how she grows more food, keeps pests down and copes with erratic weather in her Zone 5a vegetable garden in Nova Scotia. She covers a range of season extenders, including shade cloth, row cover, cold frames and polytunnels, and shows how garden covers can keep out deer, flea beetles and cabbage worms. She also shares favorite crops and varieties for harvesting in fall and winter.

Audience Q&A follows the talk.