Homesteading in Cold Climates

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Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

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🗓️ 8 December 2023

⏱️ 11 minutes

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0:00.0	Today's episode is one that I pretty much can't comment on because I'm here in San Diego zone 10b and I like to meditate and imagine I was living in a cold climate and think about what I might do and
0:24.2	share some of that advice for you but we have Katie crazy on the show 240 acre homestead
0:29.2	in northern Minnesota which my girlfriend Katie is actually from Minnesota not northern but still and it gets cold there so yes it does
0:38.6	you know I'm curious like you know I'm assuming you were also in Minnesota on the five acre right correct. So you've been in this world for quite some time and refresh me on the zone I believe it's three right?
0:49.4	Yes I was in 4 a and I'm now since moving in 3b so I've crossed over.
0:55.4	You're probably the only person I know that I've chatted with you know here and
1:00.4	there somewhat regularly who's in a three.
1:03.4	Okay, that's in America.
1:05.3	Yeah.
1:06.3	Yeah.
1:07.3	So when we talk about cold climates, I mean you're in a cold climate
1:12.2	and maybe refresh people on what the growing season is to start out with because I think a lot of people just aren't familiar.
1:18.0	Yeah, absolutely. So my last frost date is somewhere around mid-May,
1:25.3	but often will sometimes still see it in early June.
1:28.7	So I usually wait to plant my sensitive stuff
1:31.3	until June. And then my first stuff until June.
1:33.0	And then my first frost date is mid-September.
1:36.0	So, you know, we really only have two solid months
1:40.3	where we won't see frost, you know,
1:42.3	maybe three if we're lucky.
1:44.3	And that is definitely a challenge.
1:47.0	It's kind of almost like panic gardening, I feel like.
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