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The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Plants for Cold Climates

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 23 February 2022

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Finishing off our week with Brad, he shares a few of his favorite plants that absolutely thrive in cold climates. Connect With Brad Tabke: Brad Tabke has a horticulture degree from Iowa State and runs Minnesota Gardening to help busy gardeners in the upper Midwest succeed. Instagram Brad’s Podcast Minnesota Gardening 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

If you're in a cold climate and you're kind of wondering, hey, what plants are perfectly

0:17.5

suited for me?

0:18.5

I talk a lot on my channels about kind of growing whatever I can get my hands on and

0:23.3

only to try some cold climate stuff out to varying levels of success, but we have Brad

0:27.5

here on the podcast from minnesotaguarding.com.

0:31.1

Are there plants Brad that you're like, you know what, this is my domain.

0:34.8

If you're in a warm climate, you actually won't do as well with this and these plants

0:37.9

just absolutely thrive in my minnesota climate.

0:41.2

Yeah, absolutely.

0:42.9

We are really, really lucky here in Minnesota and the upper Midwest to have a variety.

0:49.9

We're going to transition zone as you go from the east coast to the west coast here in

0:55.6

the center.

0:56.6

We have a lot of, like northern minnesota is a lot of pine and maple forest, so we do a lot

1:03.0

of, you know, paper industry and syrup and that kind of a great thing up there.

1:08.6

And then we also in south east minnesota, we have what's called a caste landscape.

1:15.0

And so it's all these rolling gorgeous hills and they're filled with oaks and maples and

1:19.4

they're really great that way.

1:20.4

And then there's a, we also have a large prairie, so it's a native prairie.

1:24.2

And so there are a lot of areas that have been by the restored as native prairies and as

1:29.5

well as that have been kept intact since the days gone by.

1:35.2

So it's a really, really great thing.

1:36.5

We also, I want to, in this, I'm talking a little bit about there are a lot of great groups

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