329 - Season Extension Methods: Covers, Hoops, & Hacks for Extending the Fall Garden into Winter

The Beginner's Garden with Jill McSheehy

Jill McSheehy

Gardening, Garden, How To, Education, Organicgardening, Home & Garden, Leisure, Homegardening, Beginninggardener, Vegetablegardening

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🗓️ 26 September 2023

⏱️ 39 minutes

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If you have a fall garden planted, you're going to want to listen to today's episode! We're talking all about how to extend your season into winter with different options to cover your crops plus a couple of hacks for extending your season.

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0:00.0	Hey there and welcome back to the podcast. I hope you are enjoying fall so far. And if you've planted a fall garden, I hope you've enjoyed some harvest already. I was very excited this year to be able to start harvesting some of my greens by middle to end of August this year because I direct sewed them in late July.
0:21.6	And then I was able to start harvesting lettuce at the beginning of September, again,
0:26.6	because I started it indoors. And that's just one of those examples where I'm just
0:30.6	trying to grow more and more for longer, starting earlier, and also going into as far as I can in the fall and in the winter.
0:40.6	And that's what we're going to be talking about today.
0:42.7	If you have planted a fall garden, then you already took the steps to do the hard part,
0:48.6	which is planning when you're exhausted in the summer and planting your fall garden
0:53.8	and tending to it in many cases
0:55.7	when it's really hot and those plants are not easily planted in the heat of the summer.
1:01.5	Hopefully you are on the home stretch now like so many of us, and now you want to be thinking
1:07.8	about how you can keep that harvest going for as long as possible,
1:12.4	depending on your climate, depending on your season. There are ways that you can extend your
1:18.2	harvest of what you've planted in the fall. The good news is this doesn't require a whole lot of
1:23.7	work, especially in comparison to the work you put into planting and planting your fall
1:28.9	garden. A lot of times the biggest barrier instead is knowledge. How do I know what to do to extend
1:35.4	the season of what I've already planted? Today, I'm going to be talking to you about covering your
1:40.7	crops, how to do it, what kind of cover to choose. We're going to talk about hoops
1:45.5	that you might want to install in your garden. You don't have to have hoops depending on the crop,
1:49.9	but sometimes you definitely are going to want them and what are your options. And then finally,
1:55.1	we're going to talk about some hacks, some things that you can do to make a little bit of
2:00.2	difference in the heat that your garden traps
2:02.7	and how you can deal with things like snow as they come along, especially when it comes to those
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