Winter farming in Northern Regions. The main principles for starting to farm over the winter. What you need and how to start.
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Hi. Do you ever have problems with mice or their larger cusins?
Woot no snow for me in north Florida. Gets cold but not like up north. Brr
This vid has so much crucial info wow thanks a lot
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Is it just regular shop lights that you use for the microgreens?
How are you heating your greenhouse? What about humidity levels inside?
we are zone 4b. have our work cut out for us! good post.
Curtis, when you say it's possible to overwinter lettuce, are you talking about outdoors under poly low tunnels? Would you do this with salanova?
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Your season is ahead of mine going into winter. It's good to see beforehand what to expect. However, my spring season may be ahead of yours.
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Do you ever have issues with your drip systems, pipes, valves etc bursting with freezing? Is there a place you spoke of this and I missed it? I'm so excited to try season extension in North Carolina! I think we have JUST the climate for it! Right now I use heat tape on my chicken & horse watering systems and I've used string lights to keep certain things from freezing on a frosty night. I've had many issues with spigots and water lines that aren't heat protected at all.
Curtis, I am in Bozeman MT and am Primarily an Aquaponics grower. We are buying land this winter and will be working on a partial subterranean greenhouse. In other words I will be digging into the hillside and having a little less than half of the greenhouse with a back wall that will be either rock or cement (for radiant heat) as well as other radiant heaters and possible a rocket mass heater (as we will be 100% of grid) for the winter months. There is the background now Im trying to use what you are teaching for corps especially winter crops and have them applicable for Aquaponics. Your comment on the low tunnels and keeping the water off so it doesn't freeze, when growing in a media bed as opposed to a soil bed I need to have water available, Currently my lettuce and arugula, spinach, strawberries and basil are all in a float bed which means their roots are in a bed of water that is aerated and constantly moving, and in a greenhouse I also have the ability to put them in a low tunnel in the greenhouse as a double layer. If I manage to keep he water above freezing level How do you think this will effect the plants? Any ideas or thoughts?
Another great video, Thanks! Another very important factor for spinach and kale season extension, is that they will survive the winter if they are simply PROTECTED FROM THE WIND. My crops survive and even stay green under just a heavy row cover. A thick layer of snow protects them even more. In the fall and spring, the same row cover extends the season if they are elevated with #9 wire.
Curtis, have you grown peas shoots or micros in field during the winter with low tunnels? If so, have you done successions like in the gh? Or have you planted them early on to overwinter like you've explain about other crops like spinach?
Must you keep walking backwards and forwards… I think I'm going to be sick!
your a stud man – thanks for your insight
Good info thanks! New to this and doing a winter experiment- trying to winter over lettuce, kale and herbs by backing a small bed up to a compost pile in my chicken run and covering with plastic. Was thinking about using mylar to increase sun exposure. Didn't really consider the slow growth in winter as compared to warmer seasons but it makes perfect sense. My plants are on the small side but still growing as its been unseasonably mild. Thanks!
I love these videos. You are the best educator I know of in the urban agriculture industry! Thanks, man!
Our local market is from May to October. I'm trying to figure out how to market winter crops with such a short market season. What do you think?
So well explained!
Curtis, I just put a (stupid cheap) greenhouse up and I can't get it warm enough for what I want. What do you think of draping a sheet of plastic over it? I'll leave a place to enter so I can water etc.
I'm planning to experiment with growing greens over the next winter. I've noticed that broccoli is VERY cold hardy and had a plant that lived for 4 years without any winter protection aside from the snow that covered it, here in Ontario (zone 5b).
What's the history of winter farming, is this a recent phenomenon???
Can I overwinter Arugula, RR and Tatsoi in poly low tunnels?
Best explanation ever
Eliot Coleman talks about growing Hakurei turnips and baby beets in the winter. Have you tried growing these?
Thanks for all the info man!! I'm just now finding out about you, new subscriber right here!!
Your English pronunciation is very clear. I listen to improve my English
Dude thank you, big help! Tunnel frames up, waiting on my poly
I'm in the NW Arizona desert where we do get usually 1 day of snow, and 5 months of cold weather, 40-50 or so. Starting veg in July/Aug is very hard. Sep/Oct are still quite hot. I have a fruit orchard with citrus successfully, but I lived 60 years in San Diego weather where you can grow ALL YEAR LONG. The ground doesn't freeze here. But winter veg that must start in July/Aug are nearly impossible to keep alive 'til cooler weather. We have very sandy soil here and have to water daily. The most the soil will stay wet after a monsoon is 3 days, then it's bone dry again.