Main Season Crops to Focus On

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Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2022

⏱️ 13 minutes

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For a fall garden, there are some classic crops you need to consider, which Meg Cowden shares with you in today’s show. Connect With Meg Cowden: Meg Cowden is the founder of Seed to Fork, a Zone 4a/b gardener who’s all about zone-bending, season extending, and succession planting. She’s got a book coming out soon too, so stay tuned. Seed to Fork Blog Meg’s YouTube Channel Meg’s Instagram Meg’s Pinterest Meg’s Facebook Page Shop the Store As an exclusive for listeners, use code EPICPODCAST for 5% off your entire first order on our store, featuring our flagship Birdies Raised Beds. These are the original metal raised beds, lasting up to 5-10x longer than wooden beds, are ethically made in Australia, and have a customizable modular design. Shop now and get 5% off your first order. Get Our Books Looking for a beginner's guide to growing food in small spaces? Kevin’s book, Field Guide to Urban Gardening, explains the core, essential information that you'll need to grow plants, no matter where you live! He also wrote Grow Bag Gardening to provide you with specialized knowledge that can bring you success when growing in fabric pots. Order signed copies of Kevin’s books, plus more of his favorite titles in our store. More Resources Looking for more information? Follow us: Our Blog YouTube (Including our Epic Homesteading and Jacques in the Garden channels) Instagram (Including Epic Homesteading, Jacques, and Chris) TikTok Facebook Facebook Group Discord Server 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.
0:16.1	We have Meg Kouten back on the show, founder of Seed to Fork, remember she's in zone
0:20.8	4A, B, in Minnesota, we're talking about some main season crops to focus on.
0:27.7	And it's so interesting because we're six zones apart on average, Meg.
0:33.4	Our main season crops are just so different, at least I would imagine.
0:36.7	So what kind of stuff are you focusing on?
0:38.6	Okay, so when I say main season, I'm talking like, this is how I sort of think about,
0:44.4	we just talked about long season crops, those take a long season.
0:47.0	When I'm talking about a main season crop, I'm talking about something that will mature
0:51.8	in like three months time.
0:53.7	So within a growing season, if that makes sense, so I still have the typical main season
1:00.7	crops like tomatoes, cucumbers, squash, green beans, all that good stuff, corn, you name
1:04.8	it.
1:05.8	You could even throw potatoes, like we talked about yesterday, as a main season crop.
1:09.7	But when I'm talking about things that will grow in the main season, it's about a shorter
1:14.4	time frame when I say that, does that make sense?
1:17.4	Yes, totally.
1:18.4	Yeah.
1:19.5	So these are crops that are both cold and heat tolerant.
1:24.7	And again, like we discussed with Brussels sprouts and like we discussed with hybrids,
1:30.5	they, that's what makes them cold and heat tolerant.
1:32.8	Thanks to some horticultural, you know, some fabulous horticulturalists made these things
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