Growing urban backyard in San Jose for the first time & going to try to over winter most of my garden for the month of hard freeze. My major concern was the month it's very cold and no green house....the trash bag trick is awesome! Thank you.
Depending on what you're overwintering, they may be able to tolerate it entirely unaided. (Albeit, they will grow slowly or not at all.) You can also switch your focus to colder climate veggies and you'll do great. Things like kale, broccoli, brussels sprouts, lettuce, radish and so forth prefer generally cool temperatures. Glad you found our lecture & other tips helpful!
This was great! I’d say I am an advanced home vegetable gardener, with a few decades experience of intensive gardening in a short-season high-desert climate, but I always realize I have a lot to learn and have much to ponder from other vegetable gardeners. Will you release your slide stack anytime soon? I would like to think more about a couple of your lists.
Hi there! Thanks for sitting through it, appreciate the kind comment. Appreciate the watch, have fun with your season! You can find the slide deck here: frostygarden.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Cold-Climate-Gardening_AGC.pdf
There was research going back the early twentieth century all throughout the subartic climate zones in Europe, Norway/Sweden/Finland/Russia, Asia-Siberia, North America Canada & Alaska & even Greenland!! However you folk have looked at veggie growing in the subartic & have discovered things that farmers, growers agronomists & researchers of times past!!
There is still research that's continuing, but I think it slowed down as there are inherent limitations to it. Things like the organic process moving so much more slowly in subarctic zones. But, a lot of things are possible and we're trying to promote them. Thanks for the watch and informative comment!
@@frostygarden907, listen to this, temperate fruits like apples now are being grown in the tropics, producing like 3 crops of apples in a year & the trees can be either shrub-like or they can grow really huge & tall. BTW deciduous trees in the subtropics become "semi-deciduous" leaves changing color in the late fall & winter & at 15 degrees latitude temperate deciduous trees will stay evergreen & mock tropical trees!! They tend to grow like wildfire like 12 feet a year but lifespans are relatively short like 15-20 years!! The tropical heat year-round puts their growth into "overdrive" & like running a car engine 24/7 all the time!! Just to let you know!! BTW I live now in south FLA zone 10 semitropical & have done veggie gardening in this climate zone!! Cold & cool weather veggies are "marginal" in this climate & only Oct-Apr & warm weather veggies will go into a "green-dormacy" Jun-Aug!!
Growing urban backyard in San Jose for the first time & going to try to over winter most of my garden for the month of hard freeze. My major concern was the month it's very cold and no green house....the trash bag trick is awesome! Thank you.
Depending on what you're overwintering, they may be able to tolerate it entirely unaided. (Albeit, they will grow slowly or not at all.) You can also switch your focus to colder climate veggies and you'll do great. Things like kale, broccoli, brussels sprouts, lettuce, radish and so forth prefer generally cool temperatures. Glad you found our lecture & other tips helpful!
This was great! I’d say I am an advanced home vegetable gardener, with a few decades experience of intensive gardening in a short-season high-desert climate, but I always realize I have a lot to learn and have much to ponder from other vegetable gardeners. Will you release your slide stack anytime soon? I would like to think more about a couple of your lists.
Hi there! Thanks for sitting through it, appreciate the kind comment. Appreciate the watch, have fun with your season! You can find the slide deck here: frostygarden.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Cold-Climate-Gardening_AGC.pdf
There was research going back the early twentieth century all throughout the subartic climate zones in Europe, Norway/Sweden/Finland/Russia, Asia-Siberia, North America Canada & Alaska & even Greenland!! However you folk have looked at veggie growing in the subartic & have discovered things that farmers, growers agronomists & researchers of times past!!
There is still research that's continuing, but I think it slowed down as there are inherent limitations to it. Things like the organic process moving so much more slowly in subarctic zones. But, a lot of things are possible and we're trying to promote them. Thanks for the watch and informative comment!
@@frostygarden907, listen to this, temperate fruits like apples now are being grown in the tropics, producing like 3 crops of apples in a year & the trees can be either shrub-like or they can grow really huge & tall. BTW deciduous trees in the subtropics become "semi-deciduous" leaves changing color in the late fall & winter & at 15 degrees latitude temperate deciduous trees will stay evergreen & mock tropical trees!! They tend to grow like wildfire like 12 feet a year but lifespans are relatively short like 15-20 years!! The tropical heat year-round puts their growth into "overdrive" & like running a car engine 24/7 all the time!! Just to let you know!! BTW I live now in south FLA zone 10 semitropical & have done veggie gardening in this climate zone!! Cold & cool weather veggies are "marginal" in this climate & only Oct-Apr & warm weather veggies will go into a "green-dormacy" Jun-Aug!!