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In this video, we collect as many details as we can about the growing conditions in our part of the world, and tell you how to do the same. That way, you’ll be better equipped to determine whether or not the results from our experiments could easily be replicated in your garden as well.
–Our results–
Plant hardiness zone: 4B (USDA) or 5B (NRCan)
Growing Season: April 29th – October 6th (159 days)
Annual Precipitation: 889mm (388 during growing season)
Elevation: 107m
Sun: Full (11-16 hours per day)
Soil PH: 6.0 – 7.5
Soil Composition: Sandy Loam
Unwelcome Visitors: white tailed deer, wild turkeys, rabbits, raccoons, groundhogs, squirrels, mice, voles, and crows, aphids, Japanese beetles, vine weevils, cutworms, Colorado potato beetles, squash bugs, grasshoppers, and cabbage worms, slugs, and snails.
–Resources–
USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map
https://planthardiness.ars.usda.gov/PHZMWeb/
NRCan Plant Hardiness Zone Map
http://www.planthardiness.gc.ca/index.pl?m=1&lang=en
The Old Farmer’s Almanac
https://www.almanac.com/
Climate data for cities worldwide
https://en.climate-data.org/
Plant Maps
https://www.plantmaps.com/
Suggested by Marcel Zuppinger:
https://www.timeanddate.com/
Pa Gardener Zone 6B
You guys are awesome! So much clear information!!!
'Ontario, Canada'..I thought you talked kind of funny! lol
Question: did you pile on a foot of hay on top of the potatos and that was the end of it, or did you keep topping up the hay/straw every time the potato greens grew through the straw, during the season?
Oregon city, Or
Plant hardiness zone USDA 8b (15-20•F)
Length of growing season: 201 days
Average rainfall: 43 inches/year
Average snowfall: 2 inches/year
Elevation: 160ft above sea level
I've got the wild boar and everything else you listed except for the Bulls, I don't really know anything about the bugs though.
Hello, I enjoy this channel. Very informative. Will support you on Patreon stat.
Lol. Didn't realize you were Canadian. I can never tell the difference between the Canadian and American accents.
107 meters above sea level. My house is about 7 feet above sea level.
Im from Chile and i love your videos.
Love your videos been following for awhile now, our farm is in Northern California. Our hardiness zone is 9A, our last frost is May 20th though we start earlier with frost covers. Our soil is sandy loam, we grow lots of stuff tomatoes, eggplants, peppers, garlic, onions, asparagus, lettuce, kale, chard etc. however our gig difference is that we get almost no rainfall during the growing season. So we do no-till compost beds covered is stray but we still have to irrigate with drip irrigation every 2 days the whole season. Thanks for all your great videos. Here out farm. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkgDSZdWH6E
Thank you thank you thank you
Living in Festus Missouri I thought I was in zone 5 but the USDA map says I’m in zone 6b !! That’s a big difference! Thanks for educating me and improving my gardening skills!!
Relatively you have both good and bad compared with the UK. We used to run a successful market garden (now part of a road) and that was alluvial soil with the bottom half flooded but enriched every Spring. Weather was indeterminate but we used a Rowcrop and happily grew top fruit and roses with strawberries and all the other profitable berries. My own garden as far away from the sea as I could get (redundancy and vacancies) was fine for domestic use until the 4 gardens here were sprayed by our friendly farmer with 2.4.5 T ; five years later and after planting about 30 lbs of wild flower seeds some colour at least is happening. Meanwhile I have to grow all my crops (Red Duke of York and Edgcote Purple spuds, 5 varieties of tomatoes, beans, herbs etc) in containers everywhere. Pests are small (mice, cats) and large (yobs). No bees, sprayed to death, no birds shot to death. And this is a forgotten tiny village………
Most interesting. TY
Hey, What software do you use for making those pleasant animation illustrations ?
Love your channel. Wish you guys the best!
Greetings from NZ!
God bless you. Thanx all information about reality.. Do you know Masanobu Fukuoka- Father of modern organic farming (Scientist, Farmer, spiritual master and Author) he said do nothing…
Thank you from Northern Ontario. Just bought a homestead…
glad I found you guys im from Montana and we pretty close In everything
Great stuff. Thanks for adding that elevation is a factor in growing. I am at 9,000 ft in the Colorado Rockies, USDA Zone 4b. It's been interesting for me to note that not everything that indicates it's hardy for colder zones than mine can be grown here. Our summers are shorter and cooler than other Zone 4's. Additionally, for those of you in the north, your days are much longer than ours (just south of the 39th latitude) in the summer months.
yhe idea of sharing our location and strategies used is genius!! this is what internet should be used for B)
Custer, South Dakota. Near Mt Rushmore. 6,000 feet. Zone 4 with Zone 4b around my greenhouse and zone 5 next to buildings ect. Growing potatoes for the first time this year, but I have lots of other raised beds and a potager garden. On FB I am under Fresh Air and Iodine Farms.
Hi from west part of India-Very informative video.
My area–semi arid climate
USDA plant hardiness zone for ajmer: is 11—same as California, florida and hawai
Average temp: rises up to 460 C in the peak summer and falls up to 40C in extreme winter
Growing season: Two seasons 1. Rabi crops –sown in October and November and harvested in March and April. Eg: Barley, Wheat, Gram, Pulses and Oil Seeds. 2. Kharif crops- grown in june and harvested in oct-nov. Eg-Rapeseed and Mustard
Average annual precipitation : 313 675 mm
Elevation ajmer: 480m
Direct observations;
Sun: Full (11 to 14 annual avg day time hours)
Soil pH:??
Soil Composition : Sandy loam to Sandy clay
Visitors: Monkeys (2 types) -very intelligent and destructive.
Cheers, keep up the good work
Florida here and it’s hot! I have thought of doing your potato idea but heat is intense here.
Oh, wow. That unfinished fence photo is a work of art.