How to Grow Vegetables All Year: Plant Covers for Cold Weather Gardening

Pioneering Today

Melissa K Norris

Cookingfromscratch, Oldfashionedliving, Selfsufficiency, Home & Garden, Gardening, Heirloomseeds, Homesteading, Growyourownfood, Education, Survival, Pioneeringtoday, Leisure, How To

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🗓️ 6 November 2019

⏱️ 19 minutes

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How to have vegetables growing all year long (or as close as possible), including which plants will still grow during frosts and hard freezes, which ones can be left in the ground, and for those more tender veggies, how to use plant covers to extend the growing season. For links to resources and the plant covers Melissa uses go to https://melissaknorris.com/213 and for the guide to raising your own fruits and vegetables pre-order and get over $96 in bonuses the Family Garden Plan at http://familygardenplan.com

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0:00.0	If you want to learn how to use herbs medicinally and not only medicinally but also grow them,
0:06.4	I can think of little else that gets me excited as knowing I can literally grow our medicine right outside our back door, then you, my friend, are going to want to make
0:16.2	sure that you are registered and signed up for our herbal summer series. This is completely free, though you definitely could charge for it because it is
0:28.2	packed with information. Once you sign up starting in August, every week you are going to get an email from me going over my top 10 favorite herbs.
0:40.0	Each week we are going to pick one of those herbs and do a deep dive on how to grow that herb,
0:47.8	but more importantly, how to use it, including safety, and if you should use it or not if you are pregnant or breastfeeding.
0:56.9	We go through all of the cautions, the medicinal properties, and its uses.
1:02.1	So when you get done done you will have in your pocket and hopefully by
1:06.2	that point in your medicine cabinet my favorite top 10 herbs to always have at the ready. Go to Melissa K Norris.com forward slash
1:18.2	summer herb and make sure that you get registered. Summer school is in session and it has never been better.
1:25.2	Welcome to episode number 213. In today's episode we are going to be talking about how to keep your garden growing
1:36.4	as long as possible as we move into those cold weather months. So specifically which crops you can let stay in the ground that
1:47.8	you don't have to harvest in most areas of the country and we'll talk about how
1:51.2	this applies to your direct weather as well and ways that you can
1:55.4	extend the growing season of certain crops even if you are getting those killing frosts and the difference between a killing frost and a
2:05.5	hard freeze. So we're going to be covering lots of things in the garden today and
2:10.0	welcome to the Pioneering Today podcast with me your host, Melissa K Norris,
2:15.8	where we are all about living homegrown and handmade, using modern homesteading to raise, preserve, and cook our own organic food no matter where you live.
2:28.0	Thank you so much for joining me.
2:30.6	And today's topic is one that I get excited about because with homesteading and
2:35.2	gardening one of our goals and I think many a homesteader and gardeners goals is to be
2:41.0	able to grow as long as possible so that we can harvest that fresh food.
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