Growing Food Sooner! (Cold-Weather Growing Methods) with Rick Stone
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Do you think gardening in winter just isn’t possible in your area because it’s too cold with too much snow? Watch this video with …
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USDA has grants that pay for part of hightunnels, making them much more affordable
nice.
When is carolyn due?
Thank you for this info and all the other goodness you share. We also live in cold country.
What about a portable greenhouse in a room that gets south and west sun, with heat mats in it during winter? Would I still need lamps ?
I’m in Michigan ..
I follow Rick on stony acres too. ❤
Don't you have to choose a special variety of carrot for fall sowing. If I wanted to plant carrots in the fall in zone 5b what variety would you recommend?
Had good luck with low tunnels made with field fence for hoops and 4-mil plastic. Have had it down to -25F with few issues. Plant Chinese Sword and Four Seasons lettuce, Bloomsdale spinach, Kale, Corn Salad, Sculpit, Buck's Horn Plantain, Miner's Lettuce, Creasy Greens, Broccoli Raab, and Sylvetta Arugula. Carrots in another, winter wheat and rye in another. Do get some growth in the winter if the temps are high enough. Also put field fence over the top to keep the flapping down and the plastic pulling loose. It's a good basic, cheap system.
Have done cold frames on the south side of the house. Used 6-mil wrapped around the 2X4" cover for a double lid cover. They do excellent with that secondary protection, and it's real easy to do a quick pick anytime above freezing. Not hard to build and reasonably cheap. If you make it modular so it's easy to break down they store with a low profile. You can treat or put something something on the bottom of the boards and they won't rot.
Experimenting this year with early tomatoes started early. Form cages from interlocking ends of field fence. Going to take some 4-mil roll plastic and wrap then staple them with an open end at the top that can be tied shut. Will fill some gallon ziplocs with water and surround the plant. Hoping to get tomatoes a month early.
Have been trying to grow at least lettuce year round, from microgreens in the winter, spring and fall crop, plus little covered tunnels in the summer. It's worked pretty good but need to tweak it. Also planted a permabed of greens – Tronchuda cabbage, Good King Henry, Oyster Leaf, Turkish Rocket, Costmary, and Lovage. That's still a work in process to get established, but had moderate success last year.
Wanna try a hotbed sometime.
Thanks so much for another great video and some great tips always enjoy hearing what you guys have to say
Excellent discussion. Very informative! I have a hoop tunnel, 2 cow panels wide, covered with 6 mil poly. A few summer crops were extended for 2 months by using row covers inside, sometimes multiple layers. I also used a radiator type heater on a timer to keep it from freezing. It was an experiment that went well until our mid-Dec blizzard. It did its job but got to the point where I shut it down when I got tired of wading through the snow in minus temps… and my plants just said, "no more". But I got ideas here about ways I can utilize it to grow other crops through the winter. Thank you!
thanks for the knowledge
I'm about 60 miles north of Rick. On St. Patricks day I harvested the last of my carrots from a 4'X4; raised bed that in November I had put a blue tarp over the bop of. I harvested some in January just before we started getting slammed with one snow storm after another. I'd never done that before and Rick is right. Those were the sweetest carrots I've ever tasted! I'll do it again this year.
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Fantastic Pantry Chat! Thank You
Loved todays Pantry Chat. It sounds like Rick Stone might be doing classes for School of Traditional Skills I sure hope so. I would love to learn more from him.
Josh, what zone are you folks in? I was told I'm in zone 7 here above Kamiah, Idaho
Great video.
Great info for us who live in the city!!
good information. I live in Ohio.
This is exactly what i do, i overwintered my carrots and surprisingly, my strawberries. I have a large cold frame that i already planted out spinach and banana peppers into as well, along with red onions. I already took the covers off of my garlic as well. I had them covered during the harshest part of winter, then just uncovered them. There doing excellent, i stil have about 6 inches of mulch on them to help with heat during these last two weeks, for when we do get freezes. I think extending your growing season is amazing. I still keep stuff mulched or covered until the beginning of april to be safe, about a week in. I havent had any issues as of yet. Im really surprised i was able to over winter my strawberries. I cut them back and mulched them heavily and put a clear tarp over them. They already have new growth. So, ill be getting fresh strawberries before anyone else in my area, which is exciting.
wondering can you use mirrors or reflective material to re-direct additional sunlight towards plants to extend sunlight hours?
Does anyone have suggestions for harvesting through winter in zone 4?
I follow Rick on Stoney Acres, so a big Thanks for having him on your show Josh. He is a wealth of knowledge and I really appreciate him. Blessings to you all ❤
where do you get the ideas
Thank you for your teachings !!!
Blessings !!!
In Idaho it's the wind. If we can keep the top on the greenhouse, we would win
Very informative Pantry Chat. Thank you
In southern Arkansas it's the heat! I never see a video on how to deal with heat and humidity!
Thank you for the new ideas. I am going to do some of them this year
Thank you for addressing this issue!