Welcome back, my friends. To the Epic Gardening podcast. We have Ashley Thomas back

on the show. She's an organic gardener in North Carolina, Zone 7B. A zone and state

I have never entered myself. Well, no, I've probably been in Zone 7B, but I haven't.

I haven't grown in Zone 7B. So Ashley, what is your season like just at a high level to

start us off? So if I had to kind of describe the growing season or really just the seasons

here in North Carolina, it would be fairly long summers or warmer weather and then the shorter

winters. So our winters don't get too low. I mean, it gets to freezing, but we don't

get like icy, icy weather like Antarctica. So it's pretty temperate. Oh, interesting. Yeah,

I don't know why I would have thought that the winter would have been pretty snowy in

7B, but I guess it just depends. It's the trick of zones, right? Because all they really

tell you is the minimum temp in that much else. That's true. And it just varies. Yeah.

So when does your season tend to start? So it depends on which season because I grow

year round. So our summer or our spring season typically starts with where we start to get

the warmer weather. We're looking at around late April or May. Crazy. Because many people

are ready to grow starting in January, but that window typically ends around late April. And then

we go into our colder months or our cooler weather around late October, early November. And that's

kind of the trend over the last couple of years. So I mean, you just got to plan accordingly

and just know exactly what you want to grow and just really time things the right way.

And that's why I'm able to kind of grow year round is, you know, a lot of planning,

knowing when to start seed so that everything can be established and those code hearty vegetables

are able to thrive appropriately. Yeah, that's been the thing that Jacques and I were on the podcast

recently and Chris was on too. And we're kind of joking around about how at least in San Diego,

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