Embracing the Winter Season

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2022

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

There’s nothing to do in winter…or is there? Brad profiles a few things you should be doing while in the dead of winter in a cold climate. Connect With Brad Tabke: Brad Tabke has a horticulture degree from Iowa State and runs Minnesota Gardening to help busy gardeners in the upper Midwest succeed. Instagram Brad’s Podcast Minnesota Gardening Buy Birdies Garden Beds Use code EPICPODCAST for 5% off your first order of Birdies metal raised garden beds, the best metal raised beds in the world. They last 5-10x longer than wooden beds, come in multiple heights and dimensions, and look absolutely amazing. Click here to shop Birdies Garden Beds Buy My Book My book, Field Guide to Urban Gardening, is a beginners guide to growing food in small spaces, covering 6 different methods and offering rock-solid fundamental gardening knowledge: Order on Amazon Order a signed copy Follow Epic Gardening YouTube Instagram Pinterest Facebook Facebook Group Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome back everyone to the Epic Gardening podcast.
0:15.9	It is winter right now.
0:18.8	If you're listening to this, the second that it is going live, which I hope you are, Brad
0:23.7	is back on the podcast.
0:25.6	He runs Minnesotagardening.com, is a horticulture degree from Iowa State, puts out a bunch of great
0:31.2	information about helping gardeners in the Upper Midwest really succeed and do well.
0:35.9	And I just love talking to different climate growers, Brad, and it sounds like you do too.
0:40.2	And you have quite a different winter than I do.
0:42.7	And we've titled this Embracing the Winter Season, which I think in my first season, if
0:47.5	I was to move, I might have a difficult time doing, but it sounds like you found some really
0:51.8	creative things to do during this time to set yourself up for success.
0:56.4	Yeah, absolutely.
0:57.7	Thanks, Kevin.
0:58.7	If you're going to live in a place like Minnesota or the Upper Midwest, it is critical that
1:03.6	you find a way just to fall in love with winter, somehow, however that may be.
1:09.4	And through gardening and through plants, it's a really great way to experience your surroundings
1:15.7	and make sure that you are at least surviving through winter.
1:19.6	Right now here in Minnesota, we're deep in February and the days are finally starting to get
1:26.7	a little bit longer.
1:27.7	We can see the light at the end of the tunnel, but it's a tough month.
1:31.1	Yeah, I can imagine.
1:32.1	I can imagine.
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