Hi there! Could you perhaps give some advice on how to make these raised garden beds you have? What is the size (H x L x B) and with what material did you fill them? The ones you have made are a simple but durable design that also seems very cost efficient. Any info would be greatly appreciated!
I live in Cody, WY. The soil in my backyard is challenging- clay and big round river rock to make digging a hole a permanent spot for a bush. The wind is not bad in town and the garden is protected by lilacs, honeysuckles and elms along the north side. I want to plant a "food forest" for my bees, chickens, the wild birds and wild rabbits. What bushes would you suggest. Cody is considered zone 4/5 and my garden is mostly 4. Even cheat grass does not want to grow, so I am resorting to special big digs with planting soil for each new bush and straw bale gardening for vegetables. Hopefully composted straw and chicken manure will help to transform the garden in future years.
Zone 4. I think my biggest struggle is finding help. Most videos books ect. all take place in ideal growing environments. Even though I'm zone 4, I've seen it snow and frost many times in the middle of July. I would love a resource for cold weather high altitude gardening tips.
After trying to homestead for 5 years in Arkansas (zone 7), we gave up and moved home to Maine (zone4B). We could never get our garden to survive the hot, humid summers in AR, but our short growing season in Maine is amazing. I just canned my 500th quart today. I’ll take the short season anytime!
I grew up in your area of WY but now live in Estonia 🇪🇪 (tiny country up by Finland and Russia) - still cold but more forest than prairie. I’m learning a lot about what to plant by just looking at the traditional foods to understand what grows well here. Loads of berries and fruit trees, sooo many potatoes, root vegetables, and lots of calorie dense plants to last through long winters. Keep up the good work!
Im technically zone 6(Hudson Valley, Upstate NY)... but never let that stop me, i got cotton, peanuts, tobacco, and all kinds of other crazy plants that are not grown up here, but thank god for greenhouses!
i am spoiled. we are 9a/b. we are in California and can pretty much grow everything almost all year round. we have many kinds berries, fruit and citrus trees, herbs, etc all growing in our front and back yard right now. i can grow food pretty much all year round. we have a tiny yard in suburbia and ripped out the front yard and made it a beautiful edible garden. i have artichokes, cucumbers, rhubarb, tomatoes, peas, peppers, beans, grapes, melons, zucchini, root veggies, onion, garlic, peanuts, etc. the only problem i have is that sometimes my winter crops like cabbage and broccoli will bolt because we will have a couple nice warm days in winter. and i personally fail at potatoes every single year - but i think that is us still figuring out potatoes. we can and dehydrate everything. my major sad garden problem is that i wish i had more land - so i could do more fruit and nut trees and plant more foods. i dont have enough room to grow popcorn etc - but we can squeeze in a bunch of mammoth sunflowers for the seeds every year.
You are #lifegoals 🤩 We are in Riverside County and purchased a 2 acre homestead before housing prices went crazy (just before the lock down started) and there was no crops growing besides two navel Orange trees. We are up to 23 fruit trees now, a berry patch, small garden and tons of flowers. I need to put in raises beds because we have a major gopher problem in our area and everything needs gopher netting. 🙈
Cass county ND here, haven't been able to plant yet, zone 4, too cold n windy to harden off plants till today. Gonna be late start this yr. Hope we go to Oct this yr to get best harvest. Thanks for the info, we are doing our first big garden since moving to 10 acre farm last Aug (300tom plants etc). God Bless!
Texas here, zone 8a. The HEAT is the thing here. Just as you described, the most valuable advice is to ask those well-familiar with an area what works/what doesn't work. The first year here, I threw away a lot of $$$ on plants from big-box stores, rated for this area. They were o.k. until the heat came to stay. LOVE YOUR VIDEOS. Daughter is graduating from UW this weekend.💛🤠
yes, 8a and the heat just killed our summer squash but jump started our cucumbers.....Texas is hard to figure....so unpredictable. It's interesting that East Texas is considered sub tropical but yet it can snow and freeze...
I’m in zone 3 in Canada. Snow in May and September is pretty standard for us but we still get to harvest quite a bit of food. This year I plan on expanding by starting seeds indoors. Also I love your raised beds! 💙
Were in Western Wyoming at about 8000'. We can get frost or snow any month of the year so everything is grown inside our two greenhouses. We have a neighbor about five miles to the west who has a large greenhouse and a small outdoor garden for carrots and other cold weather vegetables but he looses the outdoor garden to the cold about every two or three years. We're on a South facing sheltered slope that's heavily treed so we don't have much of an issue with wind.
Wow can I ever identify with the zone, the wind and the snow, frost, and cold spring soil. I also have high elevation. Try Triple Divide Seeds, Whitefish, MT. They are more acclamated for Zone 4-5. I'm excited to be planning a greenhouse with a geothermal GHAT system (Ceres out of Colorado) for next year! Good video cold growing soul sister ☺️
You can make an extension on your garden by merely taking a plastic sheet and place it over your raised bed. If you’ve put out seeds, use clear plastic & if you just want to heat the soil for future planting; use black sheets & remember to weigh the sheets down! (Btw) I’m in South Dakota & used to live in Powell (zone 4)
I'm in southeastern Alberta! And our season and growing zone is the same here..I really appreciate your videos and advice because it actually applies to me and my homestead! Thanks so much!! Im a new subscriber and im here for good!
We are zone 3/4 in Central Oregon. The most challenging thing is we have frost risk all year around, plus we are in the high desert. Temps are 90s in the day and at night can frost. So if you wanna grow tomatoes or squash it has to be in a greenhouse. I used to think it was horrible but I changed my prospective and have made it a challenge. And also in the process of building a half in ground green house.
Great video. Its snow today and i am browsing the pages of my seed catalog. We are zone 2/3 here. This year we are building a greenhouse. I am so excited over it....i had one years ago but now that we recently retired we will build a new big one. Thank you again, i enjoy your videos
I always thought that cooking and gardening went hand in hand. I guess that might be because my grandmother always had fresh fruit and veggies for cooking. I live in zone 6b and have problems with ground animals....chipmunks, moles, gophers...they love my worm/compost area most.🙄😑😬
You could build a geothermal greenhouse. It’s just basically a hole in the ground with duck pipe that runs about 8 ft into ground and harvests the ambient temp of ground check out Nebraska greenhouse in the snow. Once it’s up it sort of self maintains and pays for itself. 👍🏻🖖🏻💪🏻🐾🖖🏻❤️🙋🏼♀️
I recommend planting more zone 3 & 4s! There are great productive plants from those zones you can add and they will love the Wy climate n cope with Artic weather
Lol. Currants, I planted 2 bushes by my shed a few years ago, and black raspberries.... 1 died, was replaced by a volunteer tree, and between some unruly grape vines and black raspberries, the light to the remaining bush had to be minimal...... everything lost leaves and I had pulled grapevine out. It had leaves! It was still alive! Lol, hoping to move it in the spring once it warms up a bit.
Zone 5a. Very very windy and a little dry. I have 3 kids 5 and under, and I'm recovering from being sick the last couple of years, so I've been extremely limited on time. I have no grow lights and I live near neighbors and have no fence, so while there is no official hoa, I do consider how my neighbors would feel about things like greenhouses and more raised beds, especially considering that the area behind our houses is somewhat treated like a community playground.
Currently living in SE Alaska (Florida Panhandle of Alaska) zone 6 but rains 220 days of the year and hardly any sun. Where my property is Eastern Alaska zone 1a Extremely small growing season. The good news is less rain and over a month of 24/7 sun. Excited to experience that growing season.
Clark, Wy North West of the state Zone 4a to 4b. The rhubarb and horseradish started coming up the end of April. I planted daikon radish then and they came up no problem and have survived the freezing nights and the two snow storms we had.
I garden in the far north of Ontario, Canada . Conditions here are a bit more harsh than Alaska . ( We don't have the warming ocean effect ) . At any rate , choosing the right plant varieties is one of the key ways of having a better chance .
4a in Canada! Still just looking at my garlic that is growing nice will prepare the garden this weekend! Plant some seeds this weekend and my onion bulbs but the rest will wait another week! The house is green everything is ready to go outside but the weather has been cold... The winter was really hard still have lots of ice under the hay in the horse fields...
I'm in zone 7a, and I bought an old Victorian farmhouse that suburbia has grown around. This is the first place I've gardened that didn't have the topsoil stripped off, and it is amazing how much more I have to weed. Good farm soil can be both a blessing and a curse.
In Cheyenne probably around where you’re at, I actually usually plant around mid April and start seeds even before that, and do very well, but you are so right about choosing the right selection of seeds
Yay Wyoming! I am in Evanston on the south west corner of the state. Zone 4a but sometimes better to buy zone 3 plants. Our biggest issue here is altitude. At just under 7000 ft our summer nights are usually in the forties and fifties. Just subscribed and excited to see your other videos.
I am in Canada. Garden Zone 3. My husband made me some raised beds this year and I am loving them! I'm just trying out a variety of fruit and veggies this year to see what works in our climate because this is all kinda new to me. My biggest struggle is having to wait to plant most things until late May or even June. I get so excited and start waaaay too many seeds too soon. And how short my growing season is can be hard.
We live in southwest Montana in zone 4. I hear you when it comes to the gardening bug! Thankfully, last summer we were given a wood-frame greenhouse and it has been awesome! We put all new polycarbonate panels on it and they seem pretty sturdy. You might be able to use them where you are. I have loved being able to start and grow SO many things! The trouble now is being patient to wait until June to put a lot of it out and in the ground.
we are zone 4-5 and live in town. Not a lot of room for gardening but still want to do it. I just found your channel. might need to binge watch here for a while.
I live is zone 3 in MN and yeah it kinda bites when I work so hard to plant my own seeds and it is time for brassicas to go in and then we get that same snow I am sure u got... very frustrating.....but I just keep plugging away at it. Comments; those corners of sharp tin on ur raised beds would concern me with little ones, heck even me, one could really get sliced up on them. I loved ur comments about raised beds being warmer soil...I am starting to transition to them..kinda a lot of expense and time, but worth it!
Great tips!! I am in I think 5a, south west South Dakota. We just got our greenhouse up yesterday and finally finishing transplanting to bigger pots until big enough for the ground.
We are in 2a ( anchorage Alaska) ugh! So hard to plant here . I like that you said your herbs come back like chives and parsley. I’m hoping mine will come back in the spring.
I am in zone 3, NW corner of North Dakota. I will buy many things that are cold hardy for zone 2, just because of the -40 plus sometimes we have. This year I lost 3 mock orange, (blizzard orange) bushes that were +6 years old because of extreme weather overwinter. I cried. I miss that wonderful smell. Too large to cover for winter, so what does a person do. Now having the hard work of digging these 6 foot bushes out!
I'm in zone 5 as well, while we have woods around us we are still windy. This is the first year that we have hoop houses, all the other years I would just wrap my plants in plastic. Starting in the house is essential. The season is just too short and not very warm.
Here in Nova Scotia we are in a zone 5 area as well. It has been cold and wet here . I can not wait til the warmer weather finally breaks and we can enjoy the sunshine a bit. Brrrrrr......
What about putting black plastic down soon as the snow is gone ? It will help warm up the soil very nicely. I'm in 4/5 zone, N. MI. This spring till late June, rain !!! A lot of the big farms didn't plant till end of June. Now we're looking at another very rainy fall. Hoop house's help. Would love to put in a sunken greenhouse. Hope you didn't get hit to bad over the weekend. Stay safe and warm.
GIRL, I cannot tell you how nice this video is! I just changed from WA state to Saskatchewan, Canada - a huge leap from zone 8b to zone 2b in growing. And I have never gardened before! So I'm taking the plunge this year and learning how to do it in a colder/drier area!
Welcome to Saskatchewan! We're growing in Saskatoon and it's not so bad. The garden can still be incredibly productive during our long summer days and the winter gives us a welcome break.
I'd say we are opposite of you...we are Zone 9 -- the Arizona desert. Our gardening time is very limited, because we have to have plants in the ground by February or March and be finished by June before things actually start cooking on the vine! Some people are successful with a fall planting, but my head is into the holidays by that time. We also have a lot of clay in our soil, so that has to be addressed as well. We do have a raised bed for planting which makes it much easier, and I really like yours.
Probably the biggest problem in my location of western North Carolina, is just how unpredictable the weather is. In most locations the transition between seasons is nice and smooth, slowly getting warmer as you go from winter to spring to summer. Here, there’s none of that. All throughout spring and autumn, the weather can’t seem to make up its mind about what temperature it wants to be. One day it will be sunny and warm, and the next it’s freezing cold, then the next day it’s raining, then snowing, but not enough to cover the ground, and then we’re right back to sunny. It’s chaos!
You nailed it on every point! We live in zone 2A. Lots of fun!😆 Gotta love gardening to do it here. I'm a lot like you as far as loving animals, cooking & then the gardening, but I sure love all the food you get from a garden! We have grown at least 75% of our produce last year
Thanks, Jill! Here in southern NM in the Sacramento Mountains (7,000 ft elevation), we do pretty good but there are some absolute "no no's"! One of them is blue berries. We are in zone 6b and even though they fit within our rating you CANNOT grow them here without a herculean effort!! They like acid and the soil here is alkaline. Amend your soil, you say? Hah! Guess what? The water is alkaline too! So if the dirt don't kill 'em, the water will!!!! Best of luck in your gardening season, Jill, and all you other gardeners out there - especially with the crazy weather that is the new abnormally normal!
I can't believe I'm not the only one! How often do we think that? Yes I have alkaline soil and water, and blue berries. They struggled for 5years and I lost about half of them. Then I started mulching with wood chips and my chopped up Christmas tree! This year should tell the tail. To keep or not to keep, that is the question ❓
@@tanarehbein7768 I hope your tenaciousness is greatly rewarded, Tana! I gave up and planted blackberries, grapes, and aronia berries which all do very well!
Fun fact! You should try peeing on your blueberry bushes. Sounds crazy, but it is an old farmer trick that works on things like blueberries. It has the balance of acid and nutrients they need to thrive. Maybe try it before throwing in the towel.
So we are in zone 9b. We get some freeze… minimal freeze 😂 So interesting to see how different it is for you. We have a LONG warm season. This year I ripped out tomatoes because I didn’t want them there, not for any other reason, because those babies survived the winter and still had tomatoes!! The hardest thing here is that it gets HOT. Instead of the ground getting super hard in winter it’s dried out and is really hard to did in right now. So I can still plant a second crop but it’s a lot of work to work the soil right now.
I’m in Zone 6B. South central Kentucky. It is usually warm by now with cold weather crips already harvested. Not this year. We’ve had a super rainy cold year. I just got the garden planted last week. It’s been back in the fifty’s this week. So, I planted cool weather crops as well as the summer crops lol.
I'm in Maryland zone 7 and garden in a tiny backyard garden. Wyoming looks so beautiful. Would love to visit one day. I've lived in the U.S for 15 years now, but always in the East coast.
Great info! We're in Zone 6a, Michigan. Like you, the most challenging thing about our zone is the shorter growing season. We usually plant memorial day weekend to be safe :)
My husband built me tall raised beds. I'm in a wheelchair so the bending to the ground is no longer a possibility. This year because it's harder to go to a garden center to get already started plants I tried to start my own and I can get them to grow, I just can't seem to keep them alive. I purchase good starter and soil for transplant. I use filtered water since our water is so hard and softened so I know they wouldn't like the salt. I've tried using water from our barn pump that doesn't get softened and well nothing seems to work. The water is always room temp. The plants seem to get leggy, I do feed them but maybe not enough. Also since I'm growing them on my kitchen table maybe they aren't getting enough sun. I do turn on our really bright kitchen light during the day but since we have covered porches there really isn't anywhere to put them where they get the kind of sun they'd get outside. BTW I'm zone 5 here in mid Michigan as well.
Zone 7 here in Maryland. Our biggest problem is too much rain in the spring. Last year, almost everything drowned. We also have extremely high humidity come summer, so fungal diseases are rampant. I am going to experiment with hoops/plastic this winter. I think I'll be able to grow some cold hearty stuff. I would move to WY in a heartbeat, but hubby has family here! I love the cold.
I am in Idaho Falls, ID...Rural, Zone 5, windy and unpredictable. Raised beds are great and this year I did not do it but in the past have secured black plastic over the raised beds to increase soil temperature and it worked great, tomatoes and peppers had a canning harvest, wahoo. I also have an herb garden sheltered on two sides by the kinda barn and the wood shop and this year I am replacing some of my very aged herbs to refresh everything. I do not do anything to the herb garden except occasional weeding. I often reduce the herb footprint and give the perimeter plants to neighbors. Herbs come back no matter what the winter dumps on them.
Zone 2b - yes we divide them into a and b up here because any bit of difference is important lol. My biggest challenge is not having to figure it all out by trial and error! Very difficult to find helpful advice. I think your harsh prairie climate might be the closest I can find on youtube.
I'm new to my area and a beginner to this whole gardening thing. I think I'm in Zone 4b. Our last frost date is mid June, first is mid Sept. (short season). I think my biggest challenge is going to be the creatures, deer, chipmunks, rabbits, etc. The deer, just today ate my flowers that popped up and were about 3" tall.
We're in zone 9b in AZ. The biggest hurdle is the heat/sun!! Most things I plant in the winter would be spring or fall plants other places. I have great luck with tomatoes here 😄
Zone 5 New England. We have had so much rain that we are behind with planting. We are also still having nights in the 30's. My started tomatoes are really needing to get outside, but still not warm enough.
Thank you for your video, and I will look into the other videos as well. I am at zone 4, Norway. Our spring is late as well. We had a snowfall last week, but now I hope we are out of the risk of frost nights. New garden, mini homestead, just planted a cherry tree (housewarming gift from my mother) and a blackberry bush. I have no idea how to keep them, so I hope they will survive! :-)
If you look on a zone map my place is supposed to be zone 4. However we have bouts of ultra cold (34 below zero F just before Christmas, 23 below in February this year) and we often have periods of no snow and cold winds that suck the moisture out of the soil and any perennials or trees. So I always look for plants that can take zone 3 climate. Another problem we have is the giant temperature swings. We'll have days in the 50s that get the sap flowing and then we'll have a week of Sub-Zero that freezes the sap. I have to wrap my young tree trunks with white cloth to help protect them. And be sure to remove the cloth in the spring or you'll girdle the trees (ask me how I know this).
I'm in zone 4 & my biggest problem is the wildlife - deer, elk, pronghorn, squirrels & chipmunk! They come in just before harvest time and decimate everything!
Oh I know your world. Zone3b. Yes I do warm my soil with a cover. Plant week after our long weekend. Use extenders for before and after. Very careful with plant material. Southern Ontario Canada 🇨🇦 unlike you I could garden all year. I am testing going under my new led spectrum lights to produce basics inside. Happy hardening to you.
Hi Jill; Take 2. Dang computer. We are in zone 4b, Big Horn County, north central Wy. Thank you for your video and blog. We have a unheated greenhouse that I start seeds in late March to hopefully have nice plants to put out 1st of June. I also look for zone 3 plants for the landscape, much safer in my opinion the a zone 4 plant.
Hi! Wow and I thought I had a cold winter here... I live in Amsterdam and I guess if I translate to the USDA map I we would fit in zone 10... love the video and how you live your life!!
G'day, here in Australia I'm in zone 4 hot arid area we have to deal with hot dry winds, dust storms and wild animals such as kangaroo's, emu's and feral goats. But can still garden even with all those challenges. God bless you guys.
Yeah I went from zone 4 to 5 without ever moving 😅 but I still have to pamper the z5 perennials. I'm at 3580 elevation with cold winter winds and five months of ground frost. Yeah right, zone 5...
We are in zone 6b, according to your zone map, on our Rocky Mtn Homestead due to the fact that we don't get below -5 F during our winters. Our biggest challenge is that we are at 9000 ft elevation and get up to 9 ft of snow that doesn't melt completely until June. But we usually don't get a hard frost until mid October but out last hard frost has been as late as June 26th.
I live outside of Bend, OR. My biggest issues are short growing season and the dirt here is volcanic sand. It has no nutrients and retains no moisture. It is very acidic from all of the pine. Deciduous trees don’t do well here. The deer eat anything that they can reach. People feed them. They mass produce. They starve. There isn’t any hunting allowed here so there are too many of them for the food available. Our outdoor season is from May to September. I make compost and add a lot of amendments. If it’s not in a container or raised bed it doesn’t grow. My chickens have never met a worm. They don’t live here.
I am also zone 5 in the Denver area and we have the same weather patterns. I struggle the same way you do. It is tough to watch videos from Alabama and Kentucky that already have their tomatoes in. My biggest struggle is with keeping enough water on my vegies. Everyone says to water about 1/2 to one inch of water a week and that just doesn't work here. Spinach and brassicas are my gardening nemesis.
I’m thankful you have this channel. We plan to move from Indiana to Pinedale area or maybe Newcastle area west of the Hills. Interested in starting corn indoors, and how to amend soil in Wyoming. Do you get much hail in late June through September ? A hoop house was an idea until I heard your comment about hail. Growing in Indiana is fairly easy and low effort, this will be a major change.
Pretty much the same weather I'm getting north of you in Central Alberta. I'm zone 3b-4 and the land we rent out to a farmer is wonderful, but what I'm left with near the house is hard clay. I have been putting in raised beds now.
I'm in Zone 4, also in Wyoming! I am located in a high altitude dessert. LOTS of wind, lots of snow. I can grow very well indoors but when i try to grow anything outside, it ALL dies :( I am stuck on how to grow any substantial amount of food for my family. I think the only way to go for my location is a greenhouse, but that is going to be EXPENSIVE.
I live in a zone 3!! so we just built a high tunnel.. I can finally plant like a zone 5 or 6! Now our sandy soil is the biggest issue. It does not hold the water.
Im in Zone 8B and heat is our problem. Right now its 97, Monday its supposed to go up to 101. We have a long growing season but the heat and mosquito's are horrible.
We're in Maine, Zone 5a, and I don't have as big of a garden as you, but I start a lot of my plants inside. I planted spinach and beet seeds directly into the ground last week, and so far they're sprouting. We've had a rather showery and cloudy spring however, so nothing has taken off yet... Today is low forties and rainy, bleh. At least we don't have snow!! 😁
So glad I stumbled upon this channel!! I'm in Ontario Canada we're done 5a I can totally understand the struggle lol we have lots of currants and gooseberry bushes they produce beautifully, we have had to fight birds like crazy they'll way them before ripening. This year we are building a fenced surround so we don't get robbed lol great channel Luv from Ashes xo ☕😊❄🍜🌄
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Hi there! Could you perhaps give some advice on how to make these raised garden beds you have? What is the size (H x L x B) and with what material did you fill them?
The ones you have made are a simple but durable design that also seems very cost efficient.
Any info would be greatly appreciated!
I live in Cody, WY. The soil in my backyard is challenging- clay and big round river rock to make digging a hole a permanent spot for a bush. The wind is not bad in town and the garden is protected by lilacs, honeysuckles and elms along the north side. I want to plant a "food forest" for my bees, chickens, the wild birds and wild rabbits. What bushes would you suggest.
Cody is considered zone 4/5 and my garden is mostly 4. Even cheat grass does not want to grow, so I am resorting to special big digs with planting soil for each new bush and straw bale gardening for vegetables. Hopefully composted straw and chicken manure will help to transform the garden in future years.
Zone 4. I think my biggest struggle is finding help. Most videos books ect. all take place in ideal growing environments. Even though I'm zone 4, I've seen it snow and frost many times in the middle of July. I would love a resource for cold weather high altitude gardening tips.
Same issues here. So hard to find quality info.
After trying to homestead for 5 years in Arkansas (zone 7), we gave up and moved home to Maine (zone4B). We could never get our garden to survive the hot, humid summers in AR, but our short growing season in Maine is amazing. I just canned my 500th quart today. I’ll take the short season anytime!
I grew up in your area of WY but now live in Estonia 🇪🇪 (tiny country up by Finland and Russia) - still cold but more forest than prairie. I’m learning a lot about what to plant by just looking at the traditional foods to understand what grows well here. Loads of berries and fruit trees, sooo many potatoes, root vegetables, and lots of calorie dense plants to last through long winters. Keep up the good work!
Im technically zone 6(Hudson Valley, Upstate NY)... but never let that stop me, i got cotton, peanuts, tobacco, and all kinds of other crazy plants that are not grown up here, but thank god for greenhouses!
We still garden in Alaska. Lol. Whence why I'm watching this video. Lol
i am spoiled. we are 9a/b. we are in California and can pretty much grow everything almost all year round. we have many kinds berries, fruit and citrus trees, herbs, etc all growing in our front and back yard right now. i can grow food pretty much all year round. we have a tiny yard in suburbia and ripped out the front yard and made it a beautiful edible garden. i have artichokes, cucumbers, rhubarb, tomatoes, peas, peppers, beans, grapes, melons, zucchini, root veggies, onion, garlic, peanuts, etc. the only problem i have is that sometimes my winter crops like cabbage and broccoli will bolt because we will have a couple nice warm days in winter. and i personally fail at potatoes every single year - but i think that is us still figuring out potatoes. we can and dehydrate everything. my major sad garden problem is that i wish i had more land - so i could do more fruit and nut trees and plant more foods. i dont have enough room to grow popcorn etc - but we can squeeze in a bunch of mammoth sunflowers for the seeds every year.
I guess not so spoiled then. It's a trade off between having more land and climate.
You are #lifegoals 🤩
We are in Riverside County and purchased a 2 acre homestead before housing prices went crazy (just before the lock down started) and there was no crops growing besides two navel Orange trees. We are up to 23 fruit trees now, a berry patch, small garden and tons of flowers. I need to put in raises beds because we have a major gopher problem in our area and everything needs gopher netting. 🙈
Alberta zone 3... potatoes onions and peas in the ground, everything else May long weekend if no frost is the forecast. Corn not till June.
Brent and Natasha Derksen 👋🏼 Hi Alberta Zone 3, Alberta Zone 2 here. 👋🏼
Ontario zone 4/5 here, north of Lake Huron. We are just past our estimated last frost date, but my garden is under water from all the rain.
Cass county ND here, haven't been able to plant yet, zone 4, too cold n windy to harden off plants till today. Gonna be late start this yr. Hope we go to Oct this yr to get best harvest. Thanks for the info, we are doing our first big garden since moving to 10 acre farm last Aug (300tom plants etc). God Bless!
Texas here, zone 8a. The HEAT is the thing here. Just as you described, the most valuable advice is to ask those well-familiar with an area what works/what doesn't work. The first year here, I threw away a lot of $$$ on plants from big-box stores, rated for this area. They were o.k. until the heat came to stay. LOVE YOUR VIDEOS. Daughter is graduating from UW this weekend.💛🤠
yes, 8a and the heat just killed our summer squash but jump started our cucumbers.....Texas is hard to figure....so unpredictable. It's interesting that East Texas is considered sub tropical but yet it can snow and freeze...
I’m in zone 3 in Canada. Snow in May and September is pretty standard for us but we still get to harvest quite a bit of food. This year I plan on expanding by starting seeds indoors. Also I love your raised beds! 💙
Were in Western Wyoming at about 8000'. We can get frost or snow any month of the year so everything is grown inside our two greenhouses. We have a neighbor about five miles to the west who has a large greenhouse and a small outdoor garden for carrots and other cold weather vegetables but he looses the outdoor garden to the cold about every two or three years. We're on a South facing sheltered slope that's heavily treed so we don't have much of an issue with wind.
Wow can I ever identify with the zone, the wind and the snow, frost, and cold spring soil. I also have high elevation.
Try Triple Divide Seeds, Whitefish, MT. They are more acclamated for Zone 4-5.
I'm excited to be planning a greenhouse with a geothermal GHAT system (Ceres out of Colorado) for next year! Good video cold growing soul sister ☺️
You can make an extension on your garden by merely taking a plastic sheet and place it over your raised bed.
If you’ve put out seeds, use clear plastic & if you just want to heat the soil for future planting; use black sheets & remember to weigh the sheets down!
(Btw) I’m in South Dakota & used to live in Powell (zone 4)
I'm in southeastern Alberta! And our season and growing zone is the same here..I really appreciate your videos and advice because it actually applies to me and my homestead! Thanks so much!! Im a new subscriber and im here for good!
We are zone 3/4 in Central Oregon. The most challenging thing is we have frost risk all year around, plus we are in the high desert. Temps are 90s in the day and at night can frost. So if you wanna grow tomatoes or squash it has to be in a greenhouse. I used to think it was horrible but I changed my prospective and have made it a challenge. And also in the process of building a half in ground green house.
Frost all year around-- yikes!! I have it pretty easy in comparison!
Great video. Its snow today and i am browsing the pages of my seed catalog. We are zone 2/3 here. This year we are building a greenhouse. I am so excited over it....i had one years ago but now that we recently retired we will build a new big one. Thank you again, i enjoy your videos
I always thought that cooking and gardening went hand in hand. I guess that might be because my grandmother always had fresh fruit and veggies for cooking. I live in zone 6b and have problems with ground animals....chipmunks, moles, gophers...they love my worm/compost area most.🙄😑😬
some years are so tough! We don't have critter problems, thankfully-- but I can only imagine how frustrating that is!
You could build a geothermal greenhouse. It’s just basically a hole in the ground with duck pipe that runs about 8 ft into ground and harvests the ambient temp of ground check out Nebraska greenhouse in the snow. Once it’s up it sort of self maintains and pays for itself. 👍🏻🖖🏻💪🏻🐾🖖🏻❤️🙋🏼♀️
I've seen pics of those-- they are fascinating!
I recommend planting more zone 3 & 4s! There are great productive plants from those zones you can add and they will love the Wy climate n cope with Artic weather
So glad I found your channel! New gardener up in the prairies in canada so you advice is so helpful!
Same! 👍🏼
Lol. Currants, I planted 2 bushes by my shed a few years ago, and black raspberries.... 1 died, was replaced by a volunteer tree, and between some unruly grape vines and black raspberries, the light to the remaining bush had to be minimal...... everything lost leaves and I had pulled grapevine out. It had leaves! It was still alive! Lol, hoping to move it in the spring once it warms up a bit.
Zone 5a. Very very windy and a little dry. I have 3 kids 5 and under, and I'm recovering from being sick the last couple of years, so I've been extremely limited on time. I have no grow lights and I live near neighbors and have no fence, so while there is no official hoa, I do consider how my neighbors would feel about things like greenhouses and more raised beds, especially considering that the area behind our houses is somewhat treated like a community playground.
Currently living in SE Alaska (Florida Panhandle of Alaska) zone 6 but rains 220 days of the year and hardly any sun.
Where my property is Eastern Alaska zone 1a Extremely small growing season. The good news is less rain and over a month of 24/7 sun. Excited to experience that growing season.
Clark, Wy North West of the state Zone 4a to 4b. The rhubarb and horseradish started coming up the end of April. I planted daikon radish then and they came up no problem and have survived the freezing nights and the two snow storms we had.
Zone 8 - DEER! Biggest problem is DEER. Then watering. I don't like to use the well too much, so try to plant reduced water plants.
I garden in the far north of Ontario, Canada . Conditions here are a bit more harsh than Alaska . ( We don't have the warming ocean effect ) . At any rate , choosing the right plant varieties is one of the key ways of having a better chance .
May 14th now and we had snow last night here in the Northeast Kingdom of VT...we’re all hanging in there...LOL - ZONE 4
Zone 3 northern Alberta Canada. Have to protect beans and squash pumpkins as can get frost 1st week of August.
We are just putting garden in now.
4a in Canada! Still just looking at my garlic that is growing nice will prepare the garden this weekend! Plant some seeds this weekend and my onion bulbs but the rest will wait another week! The house is green everything is ready to go outside but the weather has been cold... The winter was really hard still have lots of ice under the hay in the horse fields...
Thank you so much for all your help.
I'm in zone 7a, and I bought an old Victorian farmhouse that suburbia has grown around. This is the first place I've gardened that didn't have the topsoil stripped off, and it is amazing how much more I have to weed. Good farm soil can be both a blessing and a curse.
In Cheyenne probably around where you’re at, I actually usually plant around mid April and start seeds even before that, and do very well, but you are so right about choosing the right selection of seeds
We just moved to Wyoming and will be starting our garden this spring. We have never lived in zone 5 before... Thanks for the tips!
I am in East Idaho...zone 4b Snake River Valley...very windy. Canby Raspberries do wonderfully well here.
We purchased property in Bone this winter. Hoping to get a few plants in to enjoy for the summer 🤞🏻
Yay Wyoming! I am in Evanston on the south west corner of the state. Zone 4a but sometimes better to buy zone 3 plants. Our biggest issue here is altitude. At just under 7000 ft our summer nights are usually in the forties and fifties. Just subscribed and excited to see your other videos.
I am in Canada. Garden Zone 3. My husband made me some raised beds this year and I am loving them! I'm just trying out a variety of fruit and veggies this year to see what works in our climate because this is all kinda new to me. My biggest struggle is having to wait to plant most things until late May or even June. I get so excited and start waaaay too many seeds too soon. And how short my growing season is can be hard.
We live in southwest Montana in zone 4. I hear you when it comes to the gardening bug! Thankfully, last summer we were given a wood-frame greenhouse and it has been awesome! We put all new polycarbonate panels on it and they seem pretty sturdy. You might be able to use them where you are. I have loved being able to start and grow SO many things! The trouble now is being patient to wait until June to put a lot of it out and in the ground.
Looking forward to my new green house with a geothermal GAHT system. I'm so excited! I want to grow a fig tree as well as winter salads, ect.
Forgot to say I'm outside Missoula. Glad to see you here ☺️
Love your raised beds. We're in a cool climate as well. Great tips. 😊
we are zone 4-5 and live in town. Not a lot of room for gardening but still want to do it. I just found your channel. might need to binge watch here for a while.
I live is zone 3 in MN and yeah it kinda bites when I work so hard to plant my own seeds and it is time for brassicas to go in and then we get that same snow I am sure u got... very frustrating.....but I just keep plugging away at it. Comments; those corners of sharp tin on ur raised beds would concern me with little ones, heck even me, one could really get sliced up on them. I loved ur comments about raised beds being warmer soil...I am starting to transition to them..kinda a lot of expense and time, but worth it!
Great tips!! I am in I think 5a, south west South Dakota. We just got our greenhouse up yesterday and finally finishing transplanting to bigger pots until big enough for the ground.
We are in 2a ( anchorage Alaska) ugh! So hard to plant here . I like that you said your herbs come back like chives and parsley. I’m hoping mine will come back in the spring.
I am in zone 3, NW corner of North Dakota. I will buy many things that are cold hardy for zone 2, just because of the -40 plus sometimes we have. This year I lost 3 mock orange, (blizzard orange) bushes that were +6 years old because of extreme weather overwinter. I cried. I miss that wonderful smell. Too large to cover for winter, so what does a person do. Now having the hard work of digging these 6 foot bushes out!
I'm in zone 5 as well, while we have woods around us we are still windy. This is the first year that we have hoop houses, all the other years I would just wrap my plants in plastic. Starting in the house is essential. The season is just too short and not very warm.
Here in Nova Scotia we are in a zone 5 area as well. It has been cold and wet here . I can not wait til the warmer weather finally breaks and we can enjoy the sunshine a bit. Brrrrrr......
What about putting black plastic down soon as the snow is gone ? It will help warm up the soil very nicely. I'm in 4/5 zone, N. MI. This spring till late June, rain !!! A lot of the big farms didn't plant till end of June. Now we're looking at another very rainy fall. Hoop house's help. Would love to put in a sunken greenhouse. Hope you didn't get hit to bad over the weekend. Stay safe and warm.
GIRL, I cannot tell you how nice this video is! I just changed from WA state to Saskatchewan, Canada - a huge leap from zone 8b to zone 2b in growing. And I have never gardened before! So I'm taking the plunge this year and learning how to do it in a colder/drier area!
Welcome to Saskatchewan! We're growing in Saskatoon and it's not so bad. The garden can still be incredibly productive during our long summer days and the winter gives us a welcome break.
I'd say we are opposite of you...we are Zone 9 -- the Arizona desert. Our gardening time is very limited, because we have to have plants in the ground by February or March and be finished by June before things actually start cooking on the vine! Some people are successful with a fall planting, but my head is into the holidays by that time. We also have a lot of clay in our soil, so that has to be addressed as well. We do have a raised bed for planting which makes it much easier, and I really like yours.
I'm in zone 10!! basically the exact opposite haha more having to work around the heat rather than the cold
I'm in zone 9b, so I know what you mean. I do love the options for winter since it's still in the 60s right now in December
Probably the biggest problem in my location of western North Carolina, is just how unpredictable the weather is. In most locations the transition between seasons is nice and smooth, slowly getting warmer as you go from winter to spring to summer. Here, there’s none of that. All throughout spring and autumn, the weather can’t seem to make up its mind about what temperature it wants to be. One day it will be sunny and warm, and the next it’s freezing cold, then the next day it’s raining, then snowing, but not enough to cover the ground, and then we’re right back to sunny. It’s chaos!
You nailed it on every point! We live in zone 2A. Lots of fun!😆 Gotta love gardening to do it here. I'm a lot like you as far as loving animals, cooking & then the gardening, but I sure love all the food you get from a garden! We have grown at least 75% of our produce last year
We're looking at Cody. I'm so nervous about gardening!
Zone 6, our last frost date is June 1st. The plant starts and I are ready☺️ Thanks for the tips!
Some of these tips will come in handy for our garden here on the coast of Scotland! Thanks for sharing :)
Thanks, Jill! Here in southern NM in the Sacramento Mountains (7,000 ft elevation), we do pretty good but there are some absolute "no no's"! One of them is blue berries. We are in zone 6b and even though they fit within our rating you CANNOT grow them here without a herculean effort!! They like acid and the soil here is alkaline. Amend your soil, you say? Hah! Guess what? The water is alkaline too! So if the dirt don't kill 'em, the water will!!!!
Best of luck in your gardening season, Jill, and all you other gardeners out there - especially with the crazy weather that is the new abnormally normal!
I can't believe I'm not the only one! How often do we think that? Yes I have alkaline soil and water, and blue berries. They struggled for 5years and I lost about half of them. Then I started mulching with wood chips and my chopped up Christmas tree! This year should tell the tail. To keep or not to keep, that is the question ❓
@@tanarehbein7768 I hope your tenaciousness is greatly rewarded, Tana! I gave up and planted blackberries, grapes, and aronia berries which all do very well!
Fun fact! You should try peeing on your blueberry bushes. Sounds crazy, but it is an old farmer trick that works on things like blueberries. It has the balance of acid and nutrients they need to thrive. Maybe try it before throwing in the towel.
We’re in one of those rare 8b zones on the BC coast. My biggest challenge is that I want the season to be even longer!
So we are in zone 9b. We get some freeze… minimal freeze 😂
So interesting to see how different it is for you. We have a LONG warm season. This year I ripped out tomatoes because I didn’t want them there, not for any other reason, because those babies survived the winter and still had tomatoes!!
The hardest thing here is that it gets HOT. Instead of the ground getting super hard in winter it’s dried out and is really hard to did in right now. So I can still plant a second crop but it’s a lot of work to work the soil right now.
I’m in northern Vermont. Zone 3b. It snowed here this morning.
We are in Addison County VT, zone 4a for us! I'm working on adding some low tunnels and cold frames for next year!
Hi neighbor! Your by the lake and a lot closer to Burlington than me. I’m in Orleans County.
I’m in Zone 6B. South central Kentucky. It is usually warm by now with cold weather crips already harvested. Not this year. We’ve had a super rainy cold year. I just got the garden planted last week. It’s been back in the fifty’s this week. So, I planted cool weather crops as well as the summer crops lol.
Oh, deer and squirrels are our only problems. But man.....
I'm in Maryland zone 7 and garden in a tiny backyard garden. Wyoming looks so beautiful. Would love to visit one day. I've lived in the U.S for 15 years now, but always in the East coast.
Great info! We're in Zone 6a, Michigan. Like you, the most challenging thing about our zone is the shorter growing season. We usually plant memorial day weekend to be safe :)
Same!!
My husband built me tall raised beds. I'm in a wheelchair so the bending to the ground is no longer a possibility. This year because it's harder to go to a garden center to get already started plants I tried to start my own and I can get them to grow, I just can't seem to keep them alive. I purchase good starter and soil for transplant. I use filtered water since our water is so hard and softened so I know they wouldn't like the salt. I've tried using water from our barn pump that doesn't get softened and well nothing seems to work. The water is always room temp. The plants seem to get leggy, I do feed them but maybe not enough. Also since I'm growing them on my kitchen table maybe they aren't getting enough sun. I do turn on our really bright kitchen light during the day but since we have covered porches there really isn't anywhere to put them where they get the kind of sun they'd get outside. BTW I'm zone 5 here in mid Michigan as well.
Zone 7 here in Maryland. Our biggest problem is too much rain in the spring. Last year, almost everything drowned. We also have extremely high humidity come summer, so fungal diseases are rampant. I am going to experiment with hoops/plastic this winter. I think I'll be able to grow some cold hearty stuff. I would move to WY in a heartbeat, but hubby has family here! I love the cold.
I am in Idaho Falls, ID...Rural, Zone 5, windy and unpredictable. Raised beds are great and this year I did not do it but in the past have secured black plastic over the raised beds to increase soil temperature and it worked great, tomatoes and peppers had a canning harvest, wahoo. I also have an herb garden sheltered on two sides by the kinda barn and the wood shop and this year I am replacing some of my very aged herbs to refresh everything. I do not do anything to the herb garden except occasional weeding. I often reduce the herb footprint and give the perimeter plants to neighbors. Herbs come back no matter what the winter dumps on them.
This was an encouraging comment to see. We just purchased property in Bone and have been wondering about possibilities.
Zone 2b - yes we divide them into a and b up here because any bit of difference is important lol. My biggest challenge is not having to figure it all out by trial and error! Very difficult to find helpful advice. I think your harsh prairie climate might be the closest I can find on youtube.
nice raised beds
I'm new to my area and a beginner to this whole gardening thing. I think I'm in Zone 4b. Our last frost date is mid June, first is mid Sept. (short season). I think my biggest challenge is going to be the creatures, deer, chipmunks, rabbits, etc. The deer, just today ate my flowers that popped up and were about 3" tall.
We're in zone 9b in AZ. The biggest hurdle is the heat/sun!! Most things I plant in the winter would be spring or fall plants other places. I have great luck with tomatoes here 😄
Zone 5 New England. We have had so much rain that we are behind with planting. We are also still having nights in the 30's. My started tomatoes are really needing to get outside, but still not warm enough.
Thank you for your video, and I will look into the other videos as well. I am at zone 4, Norway. Our spring is late as well. We had a snowfall last week, but now I hope we are out of the risk of frost nights. New garden, mini homestead, just planted a cherry tree (housewarming gift from my mother) and a blackberry bush. I have no idea how to keep them, so I hope they will survive! :-)
Perfect timing Jill! Just moved to NW ND, zone 3b/4a but about the same growing season as you.
If you look on a zone map my place is supposed to be zone 4. However we have bouts of ultra cold (34 below zero F just before Christmas, 23 below in February this year) and we often have periods of no snow and cold winds that suck the moisture out of the soil and any perennials or trees. So I always look for plants that can take zone 3 climate.
Another problem we have is the giant temperature swings. We'll have days in the 50s that get the sap flowing and then we'll have a week of Sub-Zero that freezes the sap. I have to wrap my young tree trunks with white cloth to help protect them. And be sure to remove the cloth in the spring or you'll girdle the trees (ask me how I know this).
I'm in zone 4 & my biggest problem is the wildlife - deer, elk, pronghorn, squirrels & chipmunk! They come in just before harvest time and decimate everything!
Oh I know your world. Zone3b. Yes I do warm my soil with a cover. Plant week after our long weekend. Use extenders for before and after. Very careful with plant material. Southern Ontario Canada 🇨🇦 unlike you I could garden all year. I am testing going under my new led spectrum lights to produce basics inside. Happy hardening to you.
Hi Jill; Take 2. Dang computer. We are in zone 4b, Big Horn County, north central Wy. Thank you for your video and blog. We have a unheated greenhouse that I start seeds in late March to hopefully have nice plants to put out 1st of June. I also look for zone 3 plants for the landscape, much safer in my opinion the a zone 4 plant.
Hi! Wow and I thought I had a cold winter here... I live in Amsterdam and I guess if I translate to the USDA map I we would fit in zone 10... love the video and how you live your life!!
Barbara Broek zone 10 is tropical in Canada!
G'day, here in Australia I'm in zone 4 hot arid area we have to deal with hot dry winds, dust storms and wild animals such as kangaroo's, emu's and feral goats. But can still garden even with all those challenges. God bless you guys.
We were uograded to zone 4 in WI. ;)
Yeah I went from zone 4 to 5 without ever moving 😅 but I still have to pamper the z5 perennials. I'm at 3580 elevation with cold winter winds and five months of ground frost. Yeah right, zone 5...
We are working on a Walipini for our yard in NY. We also start very early with planting indoors.
Yep another zone 4-5 Gardner here. It’s just not as long up here 😂
We are in zone 6b, according to your zone map, on our Rocky Mtn Homestead due to the fact that we don't get below -5 F during our winters. Our biggest challenge is that we are at 9000 ft elevation and get up to 9 ft of snow that doesn't melt completely until June. But we usually don't get a hard frost until mid October but out last hard frost has been as late as June 26th.
I live outside of Bend, OR. My biggest issues are short growing season and the dirt here is volcanic sand. It has no nutrients and retains no moisture. It is very acidic from all of the pine. Deciduous trees don’t do well here. The deer eat anything that they can reach. People feed them. They mass produce. They starve. There isn’t any hunting allowed here so there are too many of them for the food available. Our outdoor season is from May to September. I make compost and add a lot of amendments. If it’s not in a container or raised bed it doesn’t grow. My chickens have never met a worm. They don’t live here.
I am also zone 5 in the Denver area and we have the same weather patterns. I struggle the same way you do. It is tough to watch videos from Alabama and Kentucky that already have their tomatoes in. My biggest struggle is with keeping enough water on my vegies. Everyone says to water about 1/2 to one inch of water a week and that just doesn't work here. Spinach and brassicas are my gardening nemesis.
Zone 8a. Carrots and potatos in by Mar 1, tomatos and peppers not till Apr.
Zone 8 on Whidbey Is. WA. Biggest struggle is long period of nice weather than we get hit with wind and cold.
I’m thankful you have this channel. We plan to move from Indiana to Pinedale area or maybe Newcastle area west of the Hills. Interested in starting corn indoors, and how to amend soil in Wyoming. Do you get much hail in late June through September ? A hoop house was an idea until I heard your comment about hail. Growing in Indiana is fairly easy and low effort, this will be a major change.
Pretty much the same weather I'm getting north of you in Central Alberta. I'm zone 3b-4 and the land we rent out to a farmer is wonderful, but what I'm left with near the house is hard clay. I have been putting in raised beds now.
I’m from California in zone 9b. We are commercial farmers in addition to gardeners. Gophers tend to be an issue where we are.
Moving near you to Rigby, Idaho. From Puget Sound so my gardening technique is surely going to change.
We just purchased property in Bone ID. Lots to learn ♥️
I'm in Zone 4, also in Wyoming! I am located in a high altitude dessert. LOTS of wind, lots of snow. I can grow very well indoors but when i try to grow anything outside, it ALL dies :(
I am stuck on how to grow any substantial amount of food for my family. I think the only way to go for my location is a greenhouse, but that is going to be EXPENSIVE.
6a New England here. Rather humid so my battle tends to be fighting blight and other diseases and then of course pests 😀
I live in a zone 3!! so we just built a high tunnel.. I can finally plant like a zone 5 or 6!
Now our sandy soil is the biggest issue. It does not hold the water.
She now has a green house!
I'm in California, zone 9. I grow in containers on a balcony and just don't get enough sun resulting in leggy, fragile plants that don't produce.
Im in Zone 8B and heat is our problem. Right now its 97, Monday its supposed to go up to 101. We have a long growing season but the heat and mosquito's are horrible.
We're in Maine, Zone 5a, and I don't have as big of a garden as you, but I start a lot of my plants inside. I planted spinach and beet seeds directly into the ground last week, and so far they're sprouting. We've had a rather showery and cloudy spring however, so nothing has taken off yet... Today is low forties and rainy, bleh. At least we don't have snow!! 😁
We're in maine as well. Zone 4 central maine..
Lovely weather we're having 😉 Maine isn't so bad for growing, you just have to work with the weather and against the bugs!
Central Oregon is in the same boat.
6b I think my biggest challenge is all the rain in the spring and trying to get things planted.
So glad I stumbled upon this channel!! I'm in Ontario Canada we're done 5a I can totally understand the struggle lol we have lots of currants and gooseberry bushes they produce beautifully, we have had to fight birds like crazy they'll way them before ripening. This year we are building a fenced surround so we don't get robbed lol great channel
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