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🗓️ 4 September 2019
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Melissa Norris is a 5th generation homesteader and loves to help people use organic methods to grow their own food. She’s the host of the Pioneering Today Podcast and you can find her website at https://melissaknorris.com/.
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0:00.0 | What's going on everyone? Kevin from Epic Gardening here. We're back again with Melissa Norris. |
0:06.0 | She's a fifth generation homesteader, really awesome story, and loves to help people use organic methods to grow their own food right up my alley. |
0:14.2 | So she's also the host of the Pioneering Today Podcast, and you can find all of her info in the |
0:18.8 | podcast description or at Melissa K. Norris.com. So today Melissa, I know here in San Diego Zone 10B, a little spoiled. |
0:26.5 | My fall is more like a slightly cooler or sometimes not even summer. And so sometimes my fall recommendations are a little different |
0:34.4 | than other people around the world and I'm really curious you have 14 fall |
0:38.8 | recommendations for us so you might as well just start cracking into them. |
0:41.8 | Yeah so I will preface and say my gardening zone is very similar to zone six and so we definitely get down in the middle of winter here. |
0:51.0 | I live up in Washington State and the foothills of the |
0:53.0 | Pacific Northwest, but we definitely have a fall and usually my first hard frost |
0:57.2 | comes anywhere from the middle of September if we're really lucky at having that |
1:01.4 | warm, that warm summer |
1:03.2 | then maybe October 1st, |
1:04.8 | but after that, like killing frost is on |
1:07.0 | and then in January and February, |
1:09.0 | we sometimes get down into single digits |
1:11.0 | and get lots of snowfall. |
1:12.1 | So all that fun stuff. So yeah, just so you have a little bit of |
1:15.2 | info. But I will also give a few different tips depending upon when your first fall is for putting in these |
1:22.0 | crops. But for here where I'm at in the Pacific |
1:25.2 | Northwest some of it my favorite crops to put in and these we are going to |
1:30.1 | actually be putting in from starts and I'll cover ones that we can put in from |
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