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While there’s never any shortage of delicious fruits and vegetables to harvest during the main growing season, those quieter times of the year can prove a little more challenging.
There are a number of tricks and techniques that help to extend the growing season beyond what you’d normally expect. And some crops will even grow well during the depths of winter.
In this short video we’ll share six proven strategies to keep your home-grown harvests coming all year round.
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Thank you for another really useful video. Year-round cropping is certainly on of the biggest challenges.
And I have a question. For the first time ever I have been hit with what I believe to be leek moth – little brown grubs right down into the white stem. This has come after a year of slugs, caterpillars and pigeons. Next year there will be a lot more netting. What is the best treatment for leek moth, I am not organic.
Hi. Thanks for the advise. I have just got my first allotment and would like to use you planner. Where do I find it?
My Greenhouse is covered with greenhouse plastic and not windows. I think it is too cold for year round. Besides changing to glass and changing to row covers, do you have any additional ideas that will help me keep my plants warm and growing longer. My peppers were not happy as soon as the temps dropped down. I'm in Newfoundland so we start to get temps around 0 in the night now in Oct. and we have long cold winters. If there are any extra ideas I'd love to hear them. Love your videos and planting guide. Thanks
Awesome! Thanks!
I am in zone 6 and we get some great snows and cold blows. I started out with a 10×20 green plastic greenhouse kit. It lasted a couple of years and we got a second one and put it next to the first one. Then we slowly replaced the tubular frame from the first one with 4×4 and 2×4 wooden frames and some custom welded angle iron brackets. We also replaced the old plastic with clear tarps. Then as the second one started to show signs of wear and tear we did the same with it. It is almost the first of November and the weather is turning and we will be putting up the tarps tomorrow. We have solar heaters that we got at Lowe's 2 years ago and I will be planting lettuce, cabbage, kale, and spinach when we do. I will also get some beets and carrots in the raised beds in there as soon as we turn the compost into the soil. I got all these great ideas decades ago from Mother Earth News. I think about 80% of our food comes from our homestead…..if I could just figure out how to make Dorito's that tasted as awesome as cool ranch from the store….
I'm in SW Florida so my seasons for growing are kinda the reverse of what many of you experience. Just now I'm getting my main crops started since winter is the time to grow here. I have adapted to be able to grow crops through the summer by going with Asian varieties which thrive in the heat.
The Garden Planner is AWESOME and great fun as well! Truly, 5 Stars!
I'm quite a novice when it comes to gardening, admittedly. I grew up in Southern California, where home gardening was very difficult due to the dry hot weather. I now live in Oregon, about 2 hours south of Portland, in a fairly rural area. We had a fairly successful spring/summer garden harvest, but now that the weather is turning we're unsure how to continue the garden. We do have a greenhouse that is currently being unused.
Are there any Oregonians that utilize the Garden Planner for year-round gardening? And/Or does anyone have any advice for an Oregon garden plan? I know it takes meticulous planning and since I have such little experience I don't trust myself – help please and thank you!
Thank you for all of your videos. I bought a 2 year subscription to the grow veg program! Love it. Can you do a video on urban composting, proper grow light set ups, and how to successfully secession plant? Thank you.
At 2:10, the asparagus looks like it is being trimmed below ground. Is there a reason for this?
I have an unheated greenhouse, which I am currently using to try to overwinter some plants that do not necessarily do well in our climate. I started an artichoke last February, which I grew over the summer. Unfortunately, I did not do enough research to find out that most artichokes do not fruit in their first season — at least not here. So, I put the artichoke in my greenhouse along with a bay tree, also not native to this area. So far the bay tree is doing great. The verdict is still out on the artichoke, which is drooping a bit and may have been caught by our unseasonable winter so far, which has gone from unseasonably warm to unseasonably cold and back a couple of times. We'll have to see how it fared come spring. In the meantime, I have surrounded it with straw and am keeping it watered. (Fingers crossed!) I also start seeds indoors on a heated mat with grow lights, and I take my ginger plant into the house during the cold season as well and take it back out in spring.
I love your videos so much!
my potatoes should go out from the ground at the beginning of the august.. but dont know what to plant then.. various salads seem the most popular to me but i dont need salads.. especially not as much as i had covered with potatoes.. any unusual ideas?
The garden planner is brilliant!
Been outside to see where it fits to grow some food :/ but the sun hits nowhere. Is direct sunlight a must?
Inspirational ideas thank you 🙂
Friend, my sunny west wall for fall winter garden! Brilliant! Enjoying and living well with your guidance!
This was good! thankh yu