How to Start Gardening in a New Zone

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2021

⏱️ 9 minutes

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If you move...how do you make sure you have success in your new climate? Amy shares her step by step process to giving herself and her garden a good shot at epic harvests in her first season. Connect With Amy Bauer: Amy Bauer is the founder of Front Yard Veggies, where she shares about small-space front yard gardening. Recently she’s moved back to the East Coast, and is growing on much more space, sharing her knowledge along the way. Front Yard Veggies Blog Follow Amy on Instagram Subscribe to Amy on YouTube Mentioned in this Week’s Episodes: As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases. Other links may be affiliate links in which we receive a commission. Trello App New England Month-by-Month Gardening by Charlie Nardozzi Northeast Fruit & Vegetable Gardening by Charlie Nardozzi Complete Guide to No-Dig Gardening by Charlie Nardozzi No Dig Organic Home & Garden by Charles Dowding, Stephanie Hafferty Hudson Valley Seed Co Planting Poster 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	Hello everyone, welcome back to the Epic Gardening podcast, Kevin Aspirato here.
0:17.3	We have Amy Bauer from Frontyard Veggies on the podcast.
0:22.1	Yesterday we learned that Amy, I mean maybe you still will be a Frontyard Veggie grower,
0:26.6	but now certainly a lot more space in your zone 6A climate.
0:30.2	We did talk a little bit about your growing space and the new sort of challenges, but what
0:34.6	I'd love to do is sort of go back to that and say, if someone's moved to a new zone,
0:41.2	really almost no matter what change they've made, what steps did you go through to really
0:45.7	give yourself the best chance to have a great first season in a new zone?
0:48.9	All right, well the first thing I did was hop on, I think it's just farmers on the
0:53.6	back.
0:54.6	There are a few different websites that you can use and just plug in your zip code and
0:57.3	figure out your last frost date or first frost free date I should say.
1:04.1	And I would check a few different sources because depending on what site you use, it'll
1:08.3	give you a range.
1:09.3	Like I saw some that were early May, I saw some that were late May, and then see if you
1:14.1	can also connect with some gardeners that are in your, you know, within 10 or 20 miles
1:21.2	of view.
1:22.2	I have a friend who lives over in Akden, Jess from Akden Food Forest, and she's been instrumental
1:28.0	because he has almost the exact same growing zone.
1:31.2	So I'm sort of following in her footsteps for when she's putting tomatoes out and just
1:35.4	like figuring out when you should be doing all of the seed starting and hardening off.
1:42.0	So got that last frost date and I would give yourself a little leeway, especially if you're
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