Using Cold Frames and Crop Extenders in Fall
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Epic Gardening
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🗓️ 5 September 2019
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Melissa Norris is a 5th generation homesteader and loves to help people use organic methods to grow their own food. She’s the host of the Pioneering Today Podcast and you can find her website at https://melissaknorris.com/.
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| 0:00.0 | What's going on everyone? Kevin from Epic Gardening here. We are back again with Melissa Norris. |
| 0:06.6 | She is a fifth generation homesteader and like myself she loves to help people use organic methods to grow their own food. |
| 0:15.0 | Highly recommend you check out her podcast. It's called Pioneering Today, which you can find, basically wherever you listen to podcasts, but also at her website website which you can find in my podcast description so yesterday we talked about some fall crops to put in and today we're going to cover fall from a different angle what if you want to just extend your season a little bit, |
| 0:34.0 | get a little bit of extra yield out of the garden before perhaps your fall crops go in or even your |
| 0:39.8 | garden kind of shuts down for the season? So Melissa again I know I am a spoiled gardener over here in zone 10b. I don't even |
| 0:47.0 | have to worry about this but for those of us that do what are some ways ways that maybe your favorite ways to extend that season. |
| 0:57.0 | Yeah and I will try not to be jealous because that means that you can grow all those warm weather crops a lot longer than I can. |
| 1:04.0 | Tomatoes coming out in November still. |
| 1:06.0 | Don't tell me that. |
| 1:08.0 | But there are some really easy ways to do some really inexpensive and simple ways to extend |
| 1:15.1 | that gardening harvest and some of them are going to provide a greater degree of |
| 1:18.8 | protection than others. So one of my favorite and the easiest ways honestly to do is if you can find any type of large big plastic tope so just think you know like you go to some of the you know big box |
| 1:32.4 | storages and they've got those big |
| 1:34.2 | plastic clear tots you do still want to be able especially if you're having to use it |
| 1:38.4 | during the daytime and it needs to get some light that light can get through there. So I will take those and usually what happens is we will have |
| 1:48.8 | overnight lows that will bring a frost and so I'll put them on about an hour or two |
| 1:54.5 | before the sun goes down so it can build up some heat. |
| 1:57.1 | Put that over top of the plant |
| 1:59.8 | and make sure that it's touching the soil all the way around |
| 2:02.3 | so that it can that the heat |
| 2:04.3 | that you're getting from the soil and from those last few hours of daylight is |
| 2:08.2 | building up and then leave it on overnight and then in the morning after the sun has came back up and it |
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