Music: "Move to the Country" by Patrick Dolan (me) My RUclips Music Channel: ruclips.net/video/g9s5AIvPdrM/видео.html iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/album/move-to-the-country-single/1450309231?app=itunes&ign-mpt=uo%3D4 Spotify: open.spotify.com/album/5AbKmJOIVNOIjQ58sNjGCv Highlights: 0:27 - temperature outside versus hoop house 0:56 - harvesting crops before even colder weather 1:42 - tatsoi 2:43 - lettuce 3:35 - claytonia and spinach 3:54 - mizuna 4:10 - parsley 4:34 - Siber Frill Kale 4:47 - did plants get too hot? 5:08 - Minuna 5:16 - Arctic King Lettuce 5:32 - Red Romaine Lettuce 5:40 - Dinosaur Kale 5:50 - Georgia Collards 5:56 - Siber Frill Kale 6:50 - Link to my "Move to the Country" video ruclips.net/video/g9s5AIvPdrM/видео.html Oscar Cameos: 0:222:174:265:256:206:44
I've been listening to you for years but I haven't subscribed until today. Much of your knowledge went into my garden to feed my family. Thank you. You and I Am Organic Gardening are the best on RUclips in my opinion.
Been watching this channel for a year and a half or so, always good to see your no-BS, low-stress, simple materials approach. Particularly with this video I like that you show people that early adopting some aspects of climate change resiliency doesn't have to be as stressful as sometimes imagined. Thanks for another good vid.
Very nice Patrick! I have about 20 turmeric and 20 ginger roots planted in the basement to get a head start on spring also planted 9 sweet potato halves in a shallow tray to grow slips and 6 lemon grass ends i rooted in water first. I think there are 200 garlic bulbs in the garden and they have started to sprout. Fun times ahead!
Jill, how did you start your tumeric? I am doing it for the first time. Curious on ur wisdom. I bought some organic from market and put them on warming mat with cling over top. Set it up in basement. Thx
@@todd5963 well it's the first time for me too. But I have grown ginger in the past. I just have mine in a pot of soil about 1 inch deep sitting on a warming mat put plastic over it. I have some in a large pot in my bedroom also planted one inch deep. I have ginger planted in 2 Greenhouse praise that I filled with 2 inches of soil. I just snuggled him down the dirt. I've grown them this way before and it works so expect a month or two before you see any growth. When spring comes, I'm going to plant them in a large flower bed outside. Good luck to you!
Brr, that looks cold! I live in florida and I thought the 45° temps we've been getting was cold.. lol. Thanks for sharing! Glad you had coverage to your crops! looks great!
For emergency you could keep some of those old outdoor Christmas lights ( not the new led ones ) and light them up under the tunnels at night. They'll raise up the temperature a good bit. It's a system used also on fruit trees to protect flowers from late spring frosts.
That's a great idea. I just don't have a good way to run electricity out there (at the moment) without compromising the seal on the door, which would be a problem.
@@OneYardRevolution Not sure if you have room, but have you considered starting a hot compost pile inside your hoop house to generate some heat? I've seen videos of various farms/homesteads that have done that. I've been watching your videos for a couple of years now....Love the content and rarely have questions because you answer them before the end of the video. I love seeing your co-star Oscar!! Please don't fire him.
It was brutal indeed, even higher up here in Canada...we reached -25/30c night after night ...my garage went down to -6c and I worry I might not get figs next spring ( I store the figs tree in my unheated garage )! Nice video as usual :)
@@Pigearvet my plan is a lean to greenhouse ( attached to my garage ) and eventually cold frames inside it...that would give us melons by July Rob! Lol
@Karen Harriman you can still "garden" till December with cold frames...then plan for next year garden in January, February, March....and if you're lucky like me, April too! :)
Patrick I keep sending people over to your channel to check out your greenhouse. I think you did an excellent job setting it up and also the follow ups in the winter greenhouse are awesome.
Yeah, the differences are incredible, especially on sunny days. Fortunately, it looks like we're going to have sunshine on the brutally cold days this week, which will help.
I can't even imagine things being that cold, Patrick!! We're scheduled to get down to 24F Tuesday night and that has me flipping out. I was going to ask if you thought of a space heater, but then you addressed that question, so never mind. LOL! Ya'll stay safe and warm and I hope your plants do alright! Cheers!! Mary Ann
Always amazing to see you harvest greens in the winter Patrick. It's fun to garden in winter. I harvested my first hydroponic cucumber today from my grow room. I have Sun Gold cherry tomatoes on the way too. Take care.
That song is great! That's exactly how I feel in the gray, gross Saint Louis cityscape. My husband and I need that song to help us dream of our future country garden.
Funny how the garden is always greener on the other side... I always look upon your garden with amazement and desire for something like it. Then I heard your song and the lyric about if you could pick up and move to a cabin on a mountain stream... and that is exactly where I've come to live. Although I've yet to establish a garden to be proud of, I do have a lot to be thankful about, living in this quiet paradise. Thanks for inspiring with your garden and reminding me to be grateful with your lyrics.
@@OneYardRevolution Yes, I appreciate that. I thought all the pests would've been non-active in the cooler 40's - 50's night temps, 50's - 70's days, but the aphids have persisted, ..can't keep enough ladybugs to keep them under control. What do you use to stave off soft bodied bugs?
Yeah, it seems like the forecast gets worse every time I look. Oh, no need to worry about Oscar. He's a pampered house cat. He's treated like a little prince. lol...
So far we have only gotten down to the teens at night in NWArkansas. Today it was 55 and tomorrow high about 30 and teens at night again. The weekend will be 50 high and 40s at night. But never fear, we will undoubtedly get thru the winter and have a huge snow and ice storm in March just in time for spring! Lol
Love the cheery, springlike polyculture greenhouse beds. Looking forward to another update after you've braved the -10-ish high/-20 lows predicted for the area this week. Brrr . . . good luck!
Hi Patrick! I'm curious if you'll be doing videos about seed starting and planning this season, I know you've done them before but they are complex topics. One of the most difficult things for me to figure out is good timing and rhythm in terms of when to start and when to harvest and re-use parts of the garden. I'm curious also what seed starting mix you use and how you feed your seedlings. As always thanks for the wonderful content.
Hi Phillip! I'll definitely make some planting videos this winter and spring. This is the planting calendar we use: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Atd6d9NeJBIoTCkEet4y_wiO6K2U7fttQDoKji3QEsA/edit?usp=sharing You can use it too by following the directions on the tool. Our seed starting mix is 5 parts coir, 4 parts vermiculite or perlite, and 3 parts vermicompost. I hope this helps!
Wonderful to see how well the crops are holding up! Here the lowest temperature so far was -8 Celsius and hardly any fost during daytime. But we might still get a colder spell in February - my husband is hoping for that since he'd like to skate on the channels :)
Thanks Vera! -8C sounds good right about now. It's -29.4C as I type. Fortunately, it only got down to -9C in the hoop house so far, which shouldn't be a problem. But we have a couple more days of extreme cold to go.
Patrick, I built a 10mm twinwall polycarbonate 8x12 kit greenhouse near my garden. I use a simple oil filled radiator and keeps the temps above freezing when it was -5 degrees F last week. I use double cover as well, 6mm twinwall poly sheets to cover the raised beds as well. Your crops look awesome! Look forward to see how they do if you add heat. Let us know.
I am so very happy for you Patrick. Gardening and music...living the life. Makes me smile to know that you love life's simple pleasures. Your talents fill MY heart with joy. Thank you for sharing. Namaste my friend. By the way, is your cilantro still growing? Everything looks super.
Hi Patrick, here in Upstate South Carolina we’re expecting that cold to get here this week. Single digits, the coldest in a few years. I grow kale, collards, rutabagas, spinach, lettuce and garlic through the winter. All but the garlic under one layer. I’m thinking I’ll double the protection for a couple nights.
Also if you want to add heat, consider looking into heat controlling thermostats which are popular for reptile keepers. Whether you use heat bulbs or something else it turns the power off/on to maintain a specific temp, I use it for my seed starts with a regular heating pad. You can also buy cheap $7 dimmer cords and adjust it manually. Lots of options with bulbs and such, when the temps drop below freezing I use a ceramic heat emitter bulb (no light, moderate heat) in the chicken coop to bump the temp up a few degrees for the birds, it is much safer than the super hot red heat lamps for chicks.
I just ordered the following because of you.. hopefully they will do ok on my patio in containers: Hungarian Pink Winter Lettuce, Strawberry spinach, malabar spinach, claytonia, mache - my raised/elevated 4x4 foot planter coming this weekend (local organic farmer built it for me). I've got tomato, eggplant and pepper seedlings growing under lights already (lettuce was already transplanted outside along with kale, swiss chard). Peas, spinach, radish are planted as well.
Hi Patrick Here is what I would do to keep your tunnels warm. I would buy a spool of zip cord and some "pin sockets", the light bulb sockets that contractor use for temporary lighting. Make a string of lights for each tunnel. Put ten or so sockets on each string and use 60-100 watt light bulbs along the length. 14 gauge zip cord is good for 15 amps. Put the strings in the tunnels but not under the Agribon. Watts are watts and I think this is the cheapest and effective way to go. Even if the zip cord is overloaded a little, it will just be laying in the snow so will certainly stay cool. They even sell used regular light bulbs at Restore. If you have a long distance to a power outlet, consider buying some 14-2 house wire and just connecting the strings with wire nuts. and put a plug on the other end. Just an idea from a frugal Mainer. Good luck!
Thanks for the tips! I'll keep this in mind for next winter if our plants don't make it through the next couple of days. I decided not to add supplemental heat now because we don't have a good way to run electricity to the hoop house at this time of year.
@@OneYardRevolution Maybe you could run an underground electrical line from your house to the hoop house next year, and use a weatherproof receptacle, that way you could use a space heater, heat lamps or something if you needed to for a few days here and there when it gets brutally cold like this.
Thank you for your continued inspiration! I plan to look at some of your older posts as I'm getting ready to plan where to create my own raised beds and hoop house.
Hi Karen! This playlist include my build projects, including raised beds, hoop house, low tunnels, etc. : ruclips.net/p/PLApXYvbprElyc5ckCRd7wv3n96-CPq_WE
So many degrees below zero!!!! I see how you do it but it is truly astonishing that temperatures like that are livable (for plants, people and other animals). A lifetime started in the tropics and then Mediterranean climate make minus any degrees seem incredible! Well done and good luck with the extra cold. All the best from stinking hot Australia!
@@OneYardRevolution I'm still so impressed that we are both growing tatsoi AT THE SAME TIME! That plant deserves so much respect!! Our local weather station had 47.2°C last week.... We have a nice garden microclimate obviously cooler than outside our yard and shade too but..... 47!!!!
Hi Oscar, stay warm. The greens are still looking good and delicious. After your next freeze please bring us back to see what survived. PS I enjoyed your music and this video. Thanks.
I'm just worried about tomorrow's snow. The cold is another whole mess you just got to deal with. I'd toss one of those electric oil radiators in the hoop house. That way you don't have to worry about the plastic or cloth catching on anything. Be sure to use high gauge cables for power. They dont recommend extention cables as they draw quite a few Amps.
Looking at the Weather Channel you guys had some severe low temperatures last night. Couple of questions. I have set up a spot in the basement like you have with the florescent lights and the mylar blankets to start seeds. Here is the question, under ideal conditions how long does it take for Bell Peppers and Tomatoes to grow to 18 inches? Thanks and keep the videos coming.
It depends on the grow room. We usually start tomatoes and peppers in mid-March. Tomatoes are typically 12 to 18" by mid-May and peppers are about 10".
I am glad you posted this! I am trying to convince folks to grow food in the winter! I watched your videos and I am doing it this year...love it! I hope you show us how they do after next week’s polar vortex nonsense!
Very nice song! We live in Central Ohio, and we are expecting part of the polar vortex also. The wind chill is expected to get -35. Sounds like we are getting part of the same arctic air. It would be interesting to see how if the space heater works out and how your crops make it. A follow-up video would be nice!
Brrrrrrr! We are in the North Georgia mountains. Supposed to get down to about 12 overnight the next couple nights, with a few inches of snow tomorrow morning. Sounds pretty mild compared to what you're dealing with! :) I love the song! It's just beautiful!
Thank you for another informative and inspiring video. Also you were correct about not needing to cover my kale here in AZ and I've had great luck with our Swiss chard and beets too even with a few weeks of overnight frost.
Wow Patrick, your song! Why aren't you performing for a living? Is there anything you are bad at?🤗 I love this video it inspires me to keep Mark motivated to finish the build. Hi, Miss Karen! Hi Oscar!
I watched a Charles Dowding video where he did early planting (in England) by making a hotbed of composting manure under his planting soil. It makes me wonder if a hotbed in a hoop house would negate the need for another heat source.
I have been thinking for a long time about doing a winter greenhouse in my home state of Colorado using heat from a hot compost pile to radiate heat inside my greenhouse. My idea comes from the french scientist Jean Pain who used a hot compost pile to make all his hot water in his house. I would have a coiled copper pipe inside a large, mostly woody compost heap pumping the water through and then have the hot water line run into my greenhouse, a couple inches under the soil. I have seen videos of people using compost pile to heat their shower water, running a garden hose through the compost pile. It would work, I am sure of it, but just havent had time yet to make a greenhouse like our friend Patrick. This guy is legit for sure, keep watching his stuff you will learn a lot.
David Livingston great idea ... I hadn't thought about just running hot water through pipes in the bed ... much more flexibility than having a compost pile in the greenhouse!
Good luck tonight! Can't wait to see how your crops are. I'm out in Downers Grove-25 miles from Chicago. You get a few degrees from the lake. Show a video!
oh my goodness that's fantastic! Thank you for making these videos, it's so interesting and encouraging!! Quick question: Have you started any seedlings indoors by now? I'm never sure when to start. I have single-layer covers here in Toronto and would like to get a head start on this year's planting. So far under the single layer my spinach, watercress and claytonia are doing just fine, but i was wondering about introducing home grown seedlings such as kale there and when it would be good time to start this process?
You're very welcome! I'm glad you find the videos helpful. We start planting cool weather crops under double cover in mid-February. This is the planting calendar we follow. You can use it to by following the instructions at the top. I hope this helps!
I love how you're weaving in the music. You have a good voice. I've only heard you play guitar. And I think Oscar is trying to say he wants a leading role, no more of this side-kick business. Stay warm ! I guess it's headed east so we're bracing ourselves.
Greetings Patrick! This will be my 1st spring starting out with marvellous wood chips. I am curious what the process will be for carrots? I would expect making 3 rows by pulling the mulch back, planting seeds and leaving the mulch pulled back until plants emerge??
Hi Robert! Yes, that's exactly right. Create furrows in the wood chips to plant the carrots in the soil. You can brush some of the chips back when the plants are mature enough (I'd wait for them to be well established and showing some root development).
The hoop house greens look great considering the extreme temps you've been getting. Oscar always takes the show. I love the new music. Did you go record at a studeo?
Yay! This is encouraging!!! LOVED the last music video on the other channel!!! I listened a few times :) It made me happy and hopeful for my future too! :) Cheers! :)
Looks good! Question about flat leafed parsley. Started it last spring zone 8b (Georgia), and it is doing fine so far when the temps drop into the 20s. Will it eventually seed and die or just grow for a few years?
Thanks! Parsley is a biennial. It should go to seed in the spring. We let ours go to seed and drop seeds in the garden so we don't have to plant it ourselves.
thanks for all the videos. I love that you include the temperature in celsius....I'm from Québec Canada, and would need to convert to Fahrenheit to know if its cold or not lol :)
Wow, haven't been on your channel in a while, sure have come a long way since that first video. Congratulations! Had a thought about the cold protection. I still use shallow clear totes here and in the early spring, when temps can get too hot, I add a bowl of water under them to capture some of the excess heat. Even ones with cut out holes on either end benefit on chilly nights with the bowl or extra jugs of water. Your planting is pretty tight and it may be a room hog... a heater would definitely work better...but maybe the idea will find a use somewhere else.
Great to hear from you again, Suzanne! We have ten 5 gallon black buckets of water in the hoop house now as heat sinks. Of course, I'm sure they're frozen solid now.
Our supplier is no longer in business, but you can find them here:www.highmowingseeds.com/organic-non-gmo-siber-frill-kale-a.html www.territorialseed.com/product/Arctic_King_Lettuce_Seed/fall-planted-greens
Wow, can't believe I'm just finding your channel! This is amazing!! I'm in Chicagoland also and always wonder if it is really worth it to go with a hoop house. I'd be eternally grateful full a video comparing your hinged mini tunnels vs the larger structure you have 🤓 If that already exists I should find it shortly, binging your videos now 😊
Welcome to the channel, Ali! Are you looking for a video that compares the results between the two? I haven't done that video because the hoop house is in a much sunnier spot than the low tunnels. I only grow the most cold hardy crops in the low tunnels because of the limited sun. If all structures received equal sun, the hoop house would still probably outperform the low tunnels, because of the smaller opening, which means less opportunity for heat to escape. I hope this helps!
OYR Frugal & Sustainable Organic Gardening Yes, I was hoping for a fair comparison. Understand the challenges of sunlight in winter though, thank you for the response!!
Your plants are doing better than I am with the cold! You've been so inspiring to me. I watch your older videos a second time and pick up more information. Lovely song--you have a lot of musical range. I just read the new Eliot Coleman book (wonderful) and was interested in the concept that there's an optimal age of transplants and research out there on that. Tomatoes should only be four weeks old when they go in (assuming your climate can support that choice of course!), squash three weeks, peas and beans (in soil block or toilet paper tube) only 2 weeks. Do you know anything about this or find it to be true? - Wendy
Music: "Move to the Country" by Patrick Dolan (me)
My RUclips Music Channel: ruclips.net/video/g9s5AIvPdrM/видео.html
iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/album/move-to-the-country-single/1450309231?app=itunes&ign-mpt=uo%3D4
Spotify: open.spotify.com/album/5AbKmJOIVNOIjQ58sNjGCv
Highlights:
0:27 - temperature outside versus hoop house
0:56 - harvesting crops before even colder weather
1:42 - tatsoi
2:43 - lettuce
3:35 - claytonia and spinach
3:54 - mizuna
4:10 - parsley
4:34 - Siber Frill Kale
4:47 - did plants get too hot?
5:08 - Minuna
5:16 - Arctic King Lettuce
5:32 - Red Romaine Lettuce
5:40 - Dinosaur Kale
5:50 - Georgia Collards
5:56 - Siber Frill Kale
6:50 - Link to my "Move to the Country" video ruclips.net/video/g9s5AIvPdrM/видео.html
Oscar Cameos:
0:22 2:17 4:26 5:25 6:20 6:44
Good job on the song!
Thanks Tim!
I've been listening to you for years but I haven't subscribed until today. Much of your knowledge went into my garden to feed my family. Thank you. You and I Am Organic Gardening are the best on RUclips in my opinion.
WOW!!! That’s you singing 🎤 sounds really really good! Beautiful voice and song!!
Great salad picking too
Been watching this channel for a year and a half or so, always good to see your no-BS, low-stress, simple materials approach. Particularly with this video I like that you show people that early adopting some aspects of climate change resiliency doesn't have to be as stressful as sometimes imagined. Thanks for another good vid.
I didn't know you sang/played!! It sounds great! Also...your winter garden it inspiring!
Thanks Natasha!
The proof is in the pudding and your methods are working great! Good luck with the even more extreme cold this week.
Thanks Ben! Fortunately, we're getting some sunshine on the 2 coldest days, and that will help a lot.
It’s so amazing how good everything is doing in that frigid weather. What a great looking salad.. have a fantastic day..!!
Thanks! We couldn't be happier with the winter garden so far. The biggest test is coming this week. It's about to get very cold.
Great garden visit with fantastic music. Thank you. Stay warm. ☀️
Thanks Sylvia!
I love watching your videos. I grow all year long too. Thank you for making great informative videos. Happy Gardening!☺️
Thanks Cheryl! It's great to hear from you again.
I clicked on this video because I remembered how calming your always are but I didn't expect some nice relaxing music too! Thanks!
Awesome work in your garden and your music! Salute!
Thanks Edelina!
Wow that's amazing, that your double and triple covers are really taking care of everything in those cold temps! ;)
Thanks! So far so good. I just hope all the plants make it through next week.
Those collards look downright happy in there! Stay warm and it will be interesting to see what happens with that cold.
Very nice Patrick! I have about 20 turmeric and 20 ginger roots planted in the basement to get a head start on spring also planted 9 sweet potato halves in a shallow tray to grow slips and 6 lemon grass ends i rooted in water first. I think there are 200 garlic bulbs in the garden and they have started to sprout. Fun times ahead!
Thanks Jill! You're off to a great start! My wife planted a few hundred lettuce plants in the grow room. She got a little carried away. lol..
Jill, how did you start your tumeric? I am doing it for the first time. Curious on ur wisdom. I bought some organic from market and put them on warming mat with cling over top. Set it up in basement. Thx
@@todd5963 well it's the first time for me too. But I have grown ginger in the past. I just have mine in a pot of soil about 1 inch deep sitting on a warming mat put plastic over it. I have some in a large pot in my bedroom also planted one inch deep. I have ginger planted in 2 Greenhouse praise that I filled with 2 inches of soil. I just snuggled him down the dirt. I've grown them this way before and it works so expect a month or two before you see any growth. When spring comes, I'm going to plant them in a large flower bed outside. Good luck to you!
Brr, that looks cold! I live in florida and I thought the 45° temps we've been getting was cold.. lol. Thanks for sharing! Glad you had coverage to your crops! looks great!
What a wonderful garden harvest in January! Fresh greens are the best. 👍 Thanks for sharing your garden & music with us.
Thanks Denise!
For emergency you could keep some of those old outdoor Christmas lights ( not the new led ones ) and light them up under the tunnels at night. They'll raise up the temperature a good bit. It's a system used also on fruit trees to protect flowers from late spring frosts.
That's a great idea. I just don't have a good way to run electricity out there (at the moment) without compromising the seal on the door, which would be a problem.
@@OneYardRevolution Not sure if you have room, but have you considered starting a hot compost pile inside your hoop house to generate some heat? I've seen videos of various farms/homesteads that have done that. I've been watching your videos for a couple of years now....Love the content and rarely have questions because you answer them before the end of the video. I love seeing your co-star Oscar!! Please don't fire him.
Thanks for C° conversation..
My pleasure!
It was brutal indeed, even higher up here in Canada...we reached -25/30c night after night ...my garage went down to -6c and I worry I might not get figs next spring ( I store the figs tree in my unheated garage )! Nice video as usual :)
Thanks! I don't think I'm cut out for cold like that. Stay warm!
You think we could do something like this?? I have done similar stuff dug into the ground. I am thinking...
@@Pigearvet my plan is a lean to greenhouse ( attached to my garage ) and eventually cold frames inside it...that would give us melons by July Rob! Lol
@Karen Harriman you can still "garden" till December with cold frames...then plan for next year garden in January, February, March....and if you're lucky like me, April too! :)
Never get tired looking at your beautiful green vegetables. Impressive music video.
Thanks!
Amazing and your song is wonderful 👍👏
Thanks Greta!
Patrick I keep sending people over to your channel to check out your greenhouse. I think you did an excellent job setting it up and also the follow ups in the winter greenhouse are awesome.
Thank you! That's very nice of you.
What a great song to start my week. So heartfelt and hopeful.
Thanks!
The greens look great! Stay warm this week! Make sure Oscar gets an extra blanket. And thank you for the update!
Absolutely incredible that some of the crops got too warm in there!!! And I love that song!
Thanks!
Those temp differences are amazing, really highlights how well the system ur using works!
Yeah, the differences are incredible, especially on sunny days. Fortunately, it looks like we're going to have sunshine on the brutally cold days this week, which will help.
oh man, that lovely song stole my heart..
I can't even imagine things being that cold, Patrick!! We're scheduled to get down to 24F Tuesday night and that has me flipping out. I was going to ask if you thought of a space heater, but then you addressed that question, so never mind. LOL! Ya'll stay safe and warm and I hope your plants do alright! Cheers!! Mary Ann
Thanks Mary Ann! 24F sounds balmy to me right now. lol
Hi Patrick! Your harvest looks wonderful and I love the song too! You brought the country to the city!! :)
Thanks Mary!
Thanks for putting the temperature in Celsius for your international fans! :)
You're welcome!
Always amazing to see you harvest greens in the winter Patrick. It's fun to garden in winter. I harvested my first hydroponic cucumber today from my grow room. I have Sun Gold cherry tomatoes on the way too. Take care.
Thanks Joe! Must be fun to be enjoying those summer crops now!
That song is great! That's exactly how I feel in the gray, gross Saint Louis cityscape. My husband and I need that song to help us dream of our future country garden.
Thanks Diane! I hope you get your country garden soon.
Those temperatures are crazy! I'm glad I live in NJ! 😂
I like having four seasons, but I wouldn't mind living somewhere with milder winters.
Funny how the garden is always greener on the other side... I always look upon your garden with amazement and desire for something like it. Then I heard your song and the lyric about if you could pick up and move to a cabin on a mountain stream... and that is exactly where I've come to live. Although I've yet to establish a garden to be proud of, I do have a lot to be thankful about, living in this quiet paradise. Thanks for inspiring with your garden and reminding me to be grateful with your lyrics.
You'll get the garden of your dreams. A quiet paradise with a beautiful garden! Who could ask for more?
Very awesome, Patrick! My greens are doing well too. Yours are loving their grow space. All stay warm in coming cold storm, good luck and be safe.
Oh, and hugs for dear Oscar :-)
Thanks Rebecca! I'm happy to hear your greens are doing well.
@@OneYardRevolution Yes, I appreciate that. I thought all the pests would've been non-active in the cooler 40's - 50's night temps, 50's - 70's days, but the aphids have persisted, ..can't keep enough ladybugs to keep them under control. What do you use to stave off soft bodied bugs?
Garden and Music...........Well done!!!
Thanks Steve!
I love all the greens you have available in the middle of winter! Loving your song also!
Thanks John!
-23 Wed night here in Kankakee county. Better keep Oscar indoors. Your song makes me think your gonna move. You would enjoy the open spaces out here.
Yeah, it seems like the forecast gets worse every time I look. Oh, no need to worry about Oscar. He's a pampered house cat. He's treated like a little prince. lol...
So far we have only gotten down to the teens at night in NWArkansas. Today it was 55 and tomorrow high about 30 and teens at night again. The weekend will be 50 high and 40s at night. But never fear, we will undoubtedly get thru the winter and have a huge snow and ice storm in March just in time for spring! Lol
Milkhouse heaters work great and are safe. If you have any farm stores around you.
Thanks for the tip, Amy!
Love the cheery, springlike polyculture greenhouse beds. Looking forward to another update after you've braved the -10-ish high/-20 lows predicted for the area this week. Brrr . . . good luck!
Thanks, we'll need it! I'll definitely be back with an update.
Nice harvest, we've had bad frost in the UK, looks like it's about to get colder
Thanks! Stay warm!
Hi Patrick! I'm curious if you'll be doing videos about seed starting and planning this season, I know you've done them before but they are complex topics. One of the most difficult things for me to figure out is good timing and rhythm in terms of when to start and when to harvest and re-use parts of the garden. I'm curious also what seed starting mix you use and how you feed your seedlings. As always thanks for the wonderful content.
Hi Phillip! I'll definitely make some planting videos this winter and spring. This is the planting calendar we use: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Atd6d9NeJBIoTCkEet4y_wiO6K2U7fttQDoKji3QEsA/edit?usp=sharing You can use it too by following the directions on the tool. Our seed starting mix is 5 parts coir, 4 parts vermiculite or perlite, and 3 parts vermicompost. I hope this helps!
Wonderful to see how well the crops are holding up! Here the lowest temperature so far was -8 Celsius and hardly any fost during daytime. But we might still get a colder spell in February - my husband is hoping for that since he'd like to skate on the channels :)
Thanks Vera! -8C sounds good right about now. It's -29.4C as I type. Fortunately, it only got down to -9C in the hoop house so far, which shouldn't be a problem. But we have a couple more days of extreme cold to go.
I hope your plants survive! @@OneYardRevolution
Love your garden updates! Keep em comin!
Thanks Danielle!
Love the song, takes the words right out of my mouth.
We're excited to see what happened after yesterday -70f wind chill.
Thanks Allyson! I'll try to do an update video this weekend.
Patrick, I built a 10mm twinwall polycarbonate 8x12 kit greenhouse near my garden. I use a simple oil filled radiator and keeps the temps above freezing when it was -5 degrees F last week. I use double cover as well, 6mm twinwall poly sheets to cover the raised beds as well. Your crops look awesome! Look forward to see how they do if you add heat. Let us know.
Thanks Andy!
your winter garden Is looking really healthy I hope It continues looking like that for you
Thanks Jackie!
Good luck with the low temps. Wow. You are very lucky. The crops look great. I wish you could bring your green thumb to my house.
Thanks Maria!
Impressive! I can only imagine how happy your mitochondria are when you ingest those delectable greens!
Thanks Josephine!
I am so very happy for you Patrick. Gardening and music...living the life. Makes me smile to know that you love life's simple pleasures. Your talents fill MY heart with joy. Thank you for sharing. Namaste my friend. By the way, is your cilantro still growing? Everything looks super.
Thanks so much for your kind words, Lark! We don't have any cilantro in the garden, but I wish we did. Stay warm in Wisconsin!
Good luck and stay warm :). Hopefully everything will be fine.
Thanks! I'll try to do an update video this weekend.
Hi Patrick, here in Upstate South Carolina we’re expecting that cold to get here this week. Single digits, the coldest in a few years. I grow kale, collards, rutabagas, spinach, lettuce and garlic through the winter. All but the garlic under one layer. I’m thinking I’ll double the protection for a couple nights.
Hi Everett! It wouldn't hurt to drape some old sheets or extra plastic over the tunnels/cold frames at night.
Thanks for the temperature conversions in Celsius.
You're welcome!
Also if you want to add heat, consider looking into heat controlling thermostats which are popular for reptile keepers. Whether you use heat bulbs or something else it turns the power off/on to maintain a specific temp, I use it for my seed starts with a regular heating pad. You can also buy cheap $7 dimmer cords and adjust it manually. Lots of options with bulbs and such, when the temps drop below freezing I use a ceramic heat emitter bulb (no light, moderate heat) in the chicken coop to bump the temp up a few degrees for the birds, it is much safer than the super hot red heat lamps for chicks.
Thanks!
I just ordered the following because of you.. hopefully they will do ok on my patio in containers: Hungarian Pink Winter Lettuce, Strawberry spinach, malabar spinach, claytonia, mache - my raised/elevated 4x4 foot planter coming this weekend (local organic farmer built it for me). I've got tomato, eggplant and pepper seedlings growing under lights already (lettuce was already transplanted outside along with kale, swiss chard). Peas, spinach, radish are planted as well.
You're off to a great start, Nancy! I hope you like Hungarian Pink Winter Lettuce as much as we do.
Hi Patrick
Here is what I would do to keep your tunnels warm. I would buy a spool of zip cord and some "pin sockets", the light bulb sockets that contractor use for temporary lighting. Make a string of lights for each tunnel. Put ten or so sockets on each string and use 60-100 watt light bulbs along the length. 14 gauge zip cord is good for 15 amps. Put the strings in the tunnels but not under the Agribon. Watts are watts and I think this is the cheapest and effective way to go. Even if the zip cord is overloaded a little, it will just be laying in the snow so will certainly stay cool. They even sell used regular light bulbs at Restore. If you have a long distance to a power outlet, consider buying some 14-2 house wire and just connecting the strings with wire nuts. and put a plug on the other end. Just an idea from a frugal Mainer. Good luck!
Thanks for the tips! I'll keep this in mind for next winter if our plants don't make it through the next couple of days. I decided not to add supplemental heat now because we don't have a good way to run electricity to the hoop house at this time of year.
@@OneYardRevolution
Maybe you could run an underground electrical line from your house to the hoop house next year, and use a weatherproof receptacle, that way you could use a space heater, heat lamps or something if you needed to for a few days here and there when it gets brutally cold like this.
Thanks John! That's definitely an option to consider if the plants don't make it through this cold spell.
Thank you for your continued inspiration! I plan to look at some of your older posts as I'm getting ready to plan where to create my own raised beds and hoop house.
Hi Karen! This playlist include my build projects, including raised beds, hoop house, low tunnels, etc. : ruclips.net/p/PLApXYvbprElyc5ckCRd7wv3n96-CPq_WE
Hello from Norway. Nice winter greens and lovely music.
Thanks Benni!
Sharing this.
Loved the music too!
YAY!!! A new video!!! I’ve been waiting patiently :)
Thanks for watching, Victoria!
So, love the video and...love this song! Thank you for all you do for us!
Blessings from TX
Thanks!
So many degrees below zero!!!! I see how you do it but it is truly astonishing that temperatures like that are livable (for plants, people and other animals). A lifetime started in the tropics and then Mediterranean climate make minus any degrees seem incredible! Well done and good luck with the extra cold.
All the best from stinking hot Australia!
Thanks Steph! Yeah, it's about to get brutally cold here. Stay cool in Australia! I couldn't handle the heat in the summer there.
@@OneYardRevolution I'm still so impressed that we are both growing tatsoi AT THE SAME TIME! That plant deserves so much respect!! Our local weather station had 47.2°C last week.... We have a nice garden microclimate obviously cooler than outside our yard and shade too but..... 47!!!!
That was a great video clip off your veggies in the green house 👍👍
Thanks!
Hi Oscar, stay warm. The greens are still looking good and delicious. After your next freeze please bring us back to see what survived. PS I enjoyed your music and this video. Thanks.
Thanks Annie! I'll definitely be be with an update.
I'm just worried about tomorrow's snow. The cold is another whole mess you just got to deal with. I'd toss one of those electric oil radiators in the hoop house. That way you don't have to worry about the plastic or cloth catching on anything. Be sure to use high gauge cables for power. They dont recommend extention cables as they draw quite a few Amps.
We got a good amount of snow, but not as much as some other areas. It'll be good insulation for our plants over the next couple days.
Great video with a chilled out song. Thankyou
Thanks!
Looking at the Weather Channel you guys had some severe low temperatures last night.
Couple of questions.
I have set up a spot in the basement like you have with the florescent lights and the mylar blankets to start seeds.
Here is the question, under ideal conditions how long does it take for Bell Peppers and Tomatoes to grow to 18 inches?
Thanks and keep the videos coming.
It depends on the grow room. We usually start tomatoes and peppers in mid-March. Tomatoes are typically 12 to 18" by mid-May and peppers are about 10".
Good luck today, can’t wait to see the results of your experiment.
Thanks Amin! I'll be back with an update when it warms up enough to open the hoop house.
I am glad you posted this! I am trying to convince folks to grow food in the winter! I watched your videos and I am doing it this year...love it! I hope you show us how they do after next week’s polar vortex nonsense!
Thanks for spreading the word about winter gardening, Jeannie! Yes, I'll be back with an update soon.
Very nice episode. I am learning lots. Thanks so much for your ideas. Music was very pleasant.
Thanks!
Very nice song! We live in Central Ohio, and we are expecting part of the polar vortex also. The wind chill is expected to get -35. Sounds like we are getting part of the same arctic air. It would be interesting to see how if the space heater works out and how your crops make it. A follow-up video would be nice!
Thanks Serena! I'll definitely do a follow up when it's warm enough to open up the hoop house.
Brrrrrrr! We are in the North Georgia mountains. Supposed to get down to about 12 overnight the next couple nights, with a few inches of snow tomorrow morning. Sounds pretty mild compared to what you're dealing with! :) I love the song! It's just beautiful!
Thanks Krista! Yeah, 12 degrees sounds great right about now.
Thank you for another informative and inspiring video. Also you were correct about not needing to cover my kale here in AZ and I've had great luck with our Swiss chard and beets too even with a few weeks of overnight frost.
I'm glad to hear your winter crops are still doing well, Daniel!
Wow Patrick, your song! Why aren't you performing for a living? Is there anything you are bad at?🤗 I love this video it inspires me to keep Mark motivated to finish the build. Hi, Miss Karen! Hi Oscar!
How often do u harvest in the winter? Best over winter gardening I’ve personally seen..👍🏼
Thanks! We usually harvest 2 to 3 times per week and harvest enough each time to make sure we have enough greens to eat every day.
I watched a Charles Dowding video where he did early planting (in England) by making a hotbed of composting manure under his planting soil. It makes me wonder if a hotbed in a hoop house would negate the need for another heat source.
Ben I'll check out edible acres ... thanks!
I have been thinking for a long time about doing a winter greenhouse in my home state of Colorado using heat from a hot compost pile to radiate heat inside my greenhouse. My
idea comes from the french scientist Jean Pain who used a hot compost pile to make all his hot water in his house. I would have a coiled copper pipe inside a large, mostly woody compost heap pumping the water through and then have the hot water line run into my greenhouse, a couple inches under the soil. I have seen videos of people using compost pile to heat their shower water, running a garden hose through the compost pile. It would work, I am sure of it, but just havent had time yet to make a greenhouse like our friend Patrick. This guy is legit for sure, keep watching his stuff you will learn a lot.
David Livingston great idea ... I hadn't thought about just running hot water through pipes in the bed ... much more flexibility than having a compost pile in the greenhouse!
If you compost inside your hoop house, you get the bonus of free carbon dioxide generation, which stimulates growth!
Awesome music, Love your videos.❤
Come on Spring...Nice to see some green :)
Come on spring, indeed!
All looking good. I see Oscar gives his approval
Thanks!
Stay warm , Greeting From Michigan !
You too, Jen!
Good luck tonight! Can't wait to see how your crops are. I'm out in Downers Grove-25 miles from Chicago. You get a few degrees from the lake. Show a video!
Thanks! I'll try to do an update video this weekend.
Are you still gardening? I am now in a position to start planning & was looking forward to following you…
oh my goodness that's fantastic! Thank you for making these videos, it's so interesting and encouraging!!
Quick question: Have you started any seedlings indoors by now? I'm never sure when to start. I have single-layer covers here in Toronto and would like to get a head start on this year's planting. So far under the single layer my spinach, watercress and claytonia are doing just fine, but i was wondering about introducing home grown seedlings such as kale there and when it would be good time to start this process?
You're very welcome! I'm glad you find the videos helpful. We start planting cool weather crops under double cover in mid-February. This is the planting calendar we follow. You can use it to by following the instructions at the top. I hope this helps!
@@OneYardRevolution thank you!!
Whoops, I didn't copy the link. Here it is: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Atd6d9NeJBIoTCkEet4y_wiO6K2U7fttQDoKji3QEsA/edit?usp=sharing
@@OneYardRevolution thank you,Patrick,I can already see this calendar will be very useful to me!
I love how you're weaving in the music. You have a good voice. I've only heard you play guitar. And I think Oscar is trying to say he wants a leading role, no more of this side-kick business. Stay warm ! I guess it's headed east so we're bracing ourselves.
Thanks Brian! Yeah, Oscar trying to find a way to take over the music channel too. lol
I want to "Move to the Country", great song! Waiting for cold on Long island,NY
Marlen
Thanks!
Very nice harvest
Thanks!
Greetings Patrick! This will be my 1st spring starting out with marvellous wood chips. I am curious what the process will be for carrots? I would expect making 3 rows by pulling the mulch back, planting seeds and leaving the mulch pulled back until plants emerge??
Hi Robert! Yes, that's exactly right. Create furrows in the wood chips to plant the carrots in the soil. You can brush some of the chips back when the plants are mature enough (I'd wait for them to be well established and showing some root development).
How many hours of sun does your greenhouse get ? Everything looks so good!
I think it gets about 5 hours per day at this time of year.
The hoop house greens look great considering the extreme temps you've been getting. Oscar always takes the show. I love the new music. Did you go record at a studeo?
Thanks Patrice! Oscar is a natural performer. lol I recorded the music in my home studio.
Yay! This is encouraging!!! LOVED the last music video on the other channel!!! I listened a few times :) It made me happy and hopeful for my future too! :) Cheers! :)
Thanks Mandi!
Looks good! Question about flat leafed parsley. Started it last spring zone 8b (Georgia), and it is doing fine so far when the temps drop into the 20s. Will it eventually seed and die or just grow for a few years?
Thanks! Parsley is a biennial. It should go to seed in the spring. We let ours go to seed and drop seeds in the garden so we don't have to plant it ourselves.
thanks for all the videos. I love that you include the temperature in celsius....I'm from Québec Canada, and would need to convert to Fahrenheit to know if its cold or not lol :)
It's great you can use your own music for your gardening vidoes. Still lovin that song.
Thanks!
How cool! And awesome music and singing voice
Thanks Jaq!
I'm absolutely amazed that your greens are surviving so well without any artificial heat.
I just gawked at the plants in disbelief.
Yeah, it has to get pretty cold to damage the plants when they're protected like they are.
Wow, haven't been on your channel in a while, sure have come a long way since that first video. Congratulations! Had a thought about the cold protection. I still use shallow clear totes here and in the early spring, when temps can get too hot, I add a bowl of water under them to capture some of the excess heat. Even ones with cut out holes on either end benefit on chilly nights with the bowl or extra jugs of water. Your planting is pretty tight and it may be a room hog... a heater would definitely work better...but maybe the idea will find a use somewhere else.
Great to hear from you again, Suzanne! We have ten 5 gallon black buckets of water in the hoop house now as heat sinks. Of course, I'm sure they're frozen solid now.
That's a great song. Congrats!
Thanks!
Where do you get the Siber Frill kale and the Arctic King lettuce? Thanks.
Our supplier is no longer in business, but you can find them here:www.highmowingseeds.com/organic-non-gmo-siber-frill-kale-a.html
www.territorialseed.com/product/Arctic_King_Lettuce_Seed/fall-planted-greens
Wow, can't believe I'm just finding your channel! This is amazing!! I'm in Chicagoland also and always wonder if it is really worth it to go with a hoop house. I'd be eternally grateful full a video comparing your hinged mini tunnels vs the larger structure you have 🤓
If that already exists I should find it shortly, binging your videos now 😊
Welcome to the channel, Ali! Are you looking for a video that compares the results between the two? I haven't done that video because the hoop house is in a much sunnier spot than the low tunnels. I only grow the most cold hardy crops in the low tunnels because of the limited sun. If all structures received equal sun, the hoop house would still probably outperform the low tunnels, because of the smaller opening, which means less opportunity for heat to escape. I hope this helps!
OYR Frugal & Sustainable Organic Gardening
Yes, I was hoping for a fair comparison. Understand the challenges of sunlight in winter though, thank you for the response!!
Oscar! Nice cameo Kitty!
Oscar loves hanging out in the hoop house on a cold day.
@@OneYardRevolution its like his vacation room. Now all he needs is a hot tub and a couple of cute kitties and hes da man! Lol
Your plants are doing better than I am with the cold! You've been so inspiring to me. I watch your older videos a second time and pick up more information. Lovely song--you have a lot of musical range.
I just read the new Eliot Coleman book (wonderful) and was interested in the concept that there's an optimal age of transplants and research out there on that. Tomatoes should only be four weeks old when they go in (assuming your climate can support that choice of course!), squash three weeks, peas and beans (in soil block or toilet paper tube) only 2 weeks. Do you know anything about this or find it to be true? - Wendy
Thanks Wendy! Very interesting about age of transplants. I don't remember reading that. Which book is it in? Thanks.
www.goodreads.com/book/show/40177562-the-new-organic-grower It's new. I like it a lot.