Hello everyone welcome back to the Epic Gardening podcast Kevin here and we're joined again by the amazing Nicky Dubour award-winning

author hundreds of thousands I think now of books sold, the year-round vegetable

gardener, groundbreaking food gardens, veggie garden remix. He has a radio show called The Weekend

Garden, which I have been on and hopefully, you know, maybe this spring, Nick, I'll pop back on that as well but her book growing undercover her newest book was released December 22nd so you can go take a look at that and that's what we're talking about this week.

Nicky we talked a little bit yesterday just about what is a garden cover, the different covers

that you're using, but today we're talking about how they can help boost production and so

you know that's a little bit of a more curious

use case for them so I'm curious how you're how you're doing that. Yeah you know I

think I think the first thing you need to do when you're talking about garden covers and my gosh, you know how many new gardeners we've had the past year

You know join us all here in the gardening world, the food gardening world especially I think the first thing you need to think is well I

don't want to go spend a whole bunch of money on all these garden covers I might not need so what type of

protection are you trying to create you know what are you trying to grow? So you need to look at your

garden and think about what your goals are to help you pick covers because they

certainly can help you boost production. First of all you know I know we've

chatted about this I live in a cold climate so you know growing up when I was gardening I could hardly grow things like peppers or eggplants or melons. I remember planting I think was moon and stars watermelon when I was probably 16 or 17 and by

the end of the season and I coddled those plants Kevin let me tell you I had like

one four inch watermelon and you know it wasn't impressive but it was delicious but you know, it wasn't impressive, but it was delicious, but you know, so using garden covers they create like a

microclimate around my plants. They trap solar energy and heat. They protect from, you know,

temperature drops and frost things like that.

So they help me grow certain crops that maybe are difficult to grow in a short season climate,

like those eggplants, those peppers, the melons, and they just allow me to do that so much easier you know and I have a

poly tunnel now a walk in space which is really up to my garden game I like to say I like

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