What are your favorite seed catalogs that you receive every year? Let us know! SHOP LAZY DOG FARM FIG TREES: lazydogfarm.com/collections/fig-trees 0:00 Intro 1:14 Our Favorite Seed Catalogs 5:42 Growing Okra for Seed 9:50 How to Heat a Greenhouse in the Winter? 14:05 Fig Trees Available for Shipping
I order all my seeds from MI Gardener. They don't put out a catalog to keep costs down, so most of their seeds are $2/pkg., with free shipping on orders $12 and up.
I get most of mine from MIGardener as well. Used to order from Baker Creek too but they started charging 15$ to ship to Canada and limited orders so you couldn't even save by ordering with friends. I like seed hunting in stores too, looking for new and different brands to try!
Always👍🏻 I remember being the only one putting the word out about Luke and what he was doing several years ago. Now there’s several on any video or post about seeds/seed catalogs.😂
Here in Villa Rica Georgia we got down to 8 degrees with a -5 windchill. Hope to never see that temperature ever again. All of my chickens, goats, rabbits and dogs survived. It took a lot of work but I did it for my animals.
We're up on a bluff in NE AL. We got down to 3°F with a wind chill of -18. I had 2 heaters and a heat lamp and Christmas tree lights running in my 10x12 Harbor Freight greenhouse and moved my younger quail into it to try to protect them. My citrus trees came though, but I lost my peppers, tomatoes and some other plants. I've had enough winter weather and am ready for spring to come now.
I think it got down to 29 in my area of central Florida. I gave up on my 2nd summer experiment with cukes, zucchini, yellow squash (harvested 3- used them in stir fry) bok choy (3 kinds of baby variety with small harvest (again for stir fry) but have tomato plants ready to bloom, new okra already putting out blossoms and some peppers that look healthy. I moved all the latter plants into my garage for Christmas wkend. Starting Tues I've been bringing them out to the sunshine on the driveway and hauling them back to garage at dusk. The carrots (2kinds, 1 in pelleted form) did fine with just a sheet thrown over them. Tomorrow it should be high of 80 degrees. I'll cart everything back to their places in my backyard. Guess half my experiment is working, I'm learning a lot.
Here in Madison County Florida, south of Thomasville, it got down to 18. At my home in South Florida, it got down to 31. Had some damage. I’ll know more when I get back home. Happy Holidays and thanks for sharing💚💚💚
I really like the Hoss seed selection. And the seed germination rate is amazing! I had a wonderful 2022 garden. 😊 I used y'alls Kodak Brown mustard cover crop after I harvesting my potatoes. Use that mustard before planting my garlic this Fall.
17 degrees Fri, 21 Sat and 22 Sun here in Charleston. Calling for 26 tonight and by the weekend we may see highs around 70. Covered everything with leaves/pine straw and then covered that with tarps/blankets/sheets. Cabbage is looking rough, not sure they will make it. The few radishes I didn't harvest before the freeze are toast. Collards, carrots, bunching onions, swiss chard, herbs look good. I pulled most of my lettuce beforehand to eat and transplant into buckets and put into the garage. I did leave a few to see what happened. The couple I left exposed are toast, but the couple I totally covered with leaves and a tarp look okay I think.
Here in the Missouri Ozarks we got down to -27 with windchill. The temps were also in the negatives but not sure what since I refused to go outside...lol No greenhouse to worry about but it wouldn't of matter with wind gusts up to 40 mph. I live in what we call a small prairie area, flat, with no trees, and lots of coyotes. We managed with no frozen pipes and all of the animals were warm and had water that wasn't frozen. I live in a small community so we had a phone chain where everyone called or stopped by to see if we were alright. My boss called and was going to bring me coolers full of water if I needed it for the animals. I am truly blessed to live in a small community that cares. I love seed catalogs and I'm not too far from Baker's Creek. I order most of my seeds from MIGardner and occasionally buy from Baker's creek. Seed catalogs get me in trouble, I order way too much, but I order online. The FFA loves it when I over-order because I give them the seeds I don't have room for in exchange I get a discount when they have starters. We all work together to do the best we can.
Battling this cold has been interesting! It got down to 18 here in Louisiana and was below 32 for over 48 hours. Hoping our newly planted citrus trees fared ok. Looking forward to ordering a few figs from y'all!
The Baker Creek catalog is a favorite of my kids. It gets them excited about their gardens beds and they always ask for different varieties to try. I don’t grow as much from them in the big garden, but I love that my kids have started growing in their own spaces because they were inspired by all the pretty pictures 😁
North central WA we got negative 21 real temp with negative 29 windchill Thank you for the information about the catalogs. We have not received several of our regulars.
Well, I am up in Tonawanda N.Y. about 4 miles north of Buffalo N.Y. If you have been watching the news you know how cold we got. A big shout out to Bluetti that kept my boiler going when the power went out. My small EB55 kept my boiler powered up for 11 hours. The power came on after 3 hours but I left the EB55 hooked up all night just to see if it could hold up. 👌👍 4 + feet of snow from all of the drifts. I still have not dug out yet, But luckily I am retired so I don't care if I get out before spring.
Young Harris Georgia, Saturday night the 24th was -1 without the windchill. The high Christmas day was 13. Four straight days that the temp never got over 32. Had to breakout the kerosene heater in the greenhouse to keep it in the 40's. Tomatoes, lettuce and cucumbers all survived.
We’re in Lagrange, Ga. Got down to 9 degrees with 18 mile an hour winds. Three days of not getting above freezing. Covered raised beds with plastic and ran a heat lamp in some beds which maybe helped rutabaga, collards, strawberries,and carrots. Beets didn’t make it. In the greenhouse we had a heater, 3 heat lamps and two strings of Christmas lights going. Saved lettuce,spinach,beets,parsnips,collards and rutabagas. Swiss chard looks rough and lost the one tomato and pepper plant that was still producing. I also have one corner as a compost pile and a black water barrel in another corner. So happy it’s over!!
Good morning. I just found your channel. We are just south of Tallahassee, Florida and it was 22 degrees. (I am just a beginner gardener.) We ordered a green house and positioned it over my raised bed. With 2 heat lamps and a heater strategically placed, we were able to keep my tropical plumerias at 40-45 degrees. My vegetables at the back were a little cooler, but ok.
Excited about Cajun B’s okra seed! Thanks for sharing - north florida here - still waiting to uncover plants- one more night of frigid temps- hoping they all survived!
I’m here in western Montana. And we where hitting. -40 with the wind chill. And we do a lot of our ordering from pine tree and baker creek. I will check out the other seed websites you mentioned
NE Ohio was 41° at 3:30 am 18° at 11am and 2° at 8pm. Ya it got pretty darn chilly with 30+ mph winds and blowing snow. But Christmas couldn't be stopped. Hope you and yours had a good one.
15 degrees here just north of Houston - 2 out of last 3 years we've had this nonsense. Last time it came in February. Today will be the first night above freezing since last Wednesday. Lost a bunch, saved a bunch. Very thankful for modern day grocery stores. 😃😃😃
I can personally vouch for the ‘Ruiz’ okra, I got a handful from Travis last winter when he offered some free with the order of his t-shirts. They are tasty, they put on a ton of pods and they thrived in our Texoma summer heat from early May until mid November.
For the corners of the greenhouse, get a piece of pipe insulation, if it doesn't already have one cut a slice all the way down the length and put it over the corners. Unless the wind gets really bad should be a good temp fix that will work over and over again. Good luck
It got down to 6° with a windchill of -11° here in Walnut Grove, AL. Our cold water line froze. We just moved here on Thanksgiving so I had no plants to worry about. But now I know how to prepare next year.
In East Central AL, we got down to 7 degrees. Stayed below freezing about 58 hrs straight with a couple more nights below freezing just after. Luckily, I had already lost everything from the previous freeze and gave up.
We are in the northern suburbs of Dallas and got down to 10 degrees Friday morning. Finally made it to above freezing on Christmas afternoon for a few hours. Back down to the 20's last night but will be in the 70's by Friday. Everything under our row cover got but a little. We did loose the broccoli and cauliflower plants and some of our onions look really sad. I think the collards and kale will bounce back. Y'all stay warm.
We got down to -1F here in Cookeville, TN. We were able to get the last cabbage and Brussels Sprouts harvested, but as you can imagine, nothing that was left out there made it through Christmas.
I'm Canadian but in Florida near St. Petersburg on vacation and it got to about 34°F! Wasn't expecting to wear my winter coat and long johns but that's exactly what I did lol.. but it's much better than where our farm is in Niagara - across the border from Buffalo. Huge storm and it was 56 hours without power.. our angel neighbours went over to our house with their generator to try to get the furnace going! I'm nervous about all the plants I had in the sunroom.. 2 lemon trees, 1 orange tree, 2 bougainvilleas that were my Mom's, lots of sentimental plants like that. 😬🤞🤞
11 degrees in NE Texas with -3 windchill. First year w my new greenhouse and it got down to 25 degrees w 2 small electric heaters. Citrus seems to be okay since no wind. Controlling the extremes is proving to be quite a challenge....the sunny days shoot up to 90s. A work in progress and tons of fun anyhow.
That early Friday morning (December 23) the temperature hovered between 9 and 10 degrees here in Shaw,Mississippi. The Saturday low was 12 degrees! I think that was lower than the worst temperatures we had last winter! 🥶
Got down to 9 degrees in NE Texas. Most of my plants were covered but my onions look like they took the biggest beating. Green tops all are wilted over. I may have to place an order with Dixon Dale for replacements.
14 degrees' was the high mid atlantic , My question about the cold weather is , Did February weather come early , or are We going have major cold winter like back in the 1977 when Chesapeake Bay froze over ? I bet your DAD remember that year . Black PICKLE BARREL ( 2) WITH A AQUARIUM HEATERS WOULD BE CHEAPER than running electric heaters .TRY OF ROLL OF BLUE PAINTERS TAPE it hold longer and doesn't stick.
Got down to 1° here in rural NW Oklahoma with the wind chill in the -25° range. Got the stock tanks to start thawing finally. Looking forward to trying Wood Prairie Farm potatoes.
It was -25 actual temp the other day here in north east Minnesota, up here we don't plant potatoes till may, sometimes we still have snow on the ground in May sometimes still on mothers day, usually snow disappears in April though
We got to 12, then the following 3 nights at 20. All of my cold crops froze. My carrots may pull through. They don't look as bad as the cabbage, broccoli,and collard greens.
Travis, Interesting video. Here in S.N.H. down to 8 degrees this weekend in early morning hours. Speaking about seed catalogs, for years catalogs flooded our mail. Today, I don't mind not getting a catalog, if that helps the company keep seeds prices lower. Just received my Lab Soil Report, from UNHCE (University of NH Coop Extension). Thank you for the video, and all the best to you and yours.
I've gotten Seeds and Such, Totally Tomatoes, Pinetree, Tomato Growers, Morgan County,, HP, Osborne and Victory so far. I ordered some harder to find pepper seeds from Sandia.
Love THE WHOLE SEED CATALOG from BAKER CREEK! Got my hands on 21 seeds for “Shinshu” runner bean - the largest bean in the phaseolus vulgares family. Look forward to growing out the variety in 2023 and learning what it does. Your Turkey Creek tomatoes sound intriguing! Best wishes fromKate in Olympia,WA - 12/26/2022.
Travis located by Lake Erie so cold I thought I saw -16 then wind. We had a white Christmas sadly too cold to even go out and enjoy any of the beauty. Hope everyone had a great holiday and I look forward to fig sale.
Cold doesn’t describe how cold it got here in NWFL….16 degrees!!!! We had propane and electric heaters going in our 20x20 greenhouse along with dropping the ceiling so the heat would stay closer to our plants. Looks like everything survived without much damage except my husband who was very tired from checking the temps every two hrs for the three nights it was cold.
I hope your family had a wonderful Christmas and y'all didn't lose too much in the freaky cold weather, especially those figs cuttings. LOTS of fig cuttings, wow! The lowest we got in our area of NE Texas (Zone 8a) was 9 degrees overnight on the 22nd, not sure of the wind chill that day, but winds were blustering all day and night. I didn't have anything growing to worry about. We were just very thankful not to have any power outages or busted pipes. And the onions I pre-soaked for a day and planted in a container on the 19th sprouted on the 22nd. I may have "jumped the gun" a bit, but usually I'm too late, so it is what it is...
Central coastal FL, 26F, 2 mornings. Lost basil and beans, the only ones I covered. Broccoli, cabbage, onions, cauliflower, kale, carrots & lettuce were okay!
For the greenhouse, maybe a few options to try in the future: Water filled bins, that you place in the greenhouse in the morning. They heat up during the day (could even potentially fill with hot water) and then she’d their heat slower than the air. Can go big like the 275 gallon totes or plastic 55 gallon drums or just pickle buckets. Small piles of hot (active) compost not unlike what Will Allen used to do in his Green Houses in Milwaukee with 6’ snow drifts built up against. Heat released from the micros in the pile produce heat as long as the temp never falls to low slowing the break down. Smudge Pots, though the full sized ones would b likely a rather disastrous result inside the green house. This is what I’ve been using and Citrus growers use them down here where I’m at in East Central Fl (and across the state) to help keep everything a few degrees higher by burning anything from diesel to used turkey fryer oil. I ran my the night of Christmas to protect my Mango Trees and they ran 9 hrs and only used two thirds of the used cooking oil I put in the base. You can buy new and place them about 10’ from the green house, but always seeing used ones online and at used sales. There are much smaller versions that act like tiki torches that might do the job. Hard to beat the price (after you’ve bought the pots) of free by using your spent cooking oil!!! Not sure any of that may work for you, but regardless I always love the videos you put together!!! Keep up the phenomenal work!!!
I know seed catalogs are expensive for the seed companies, but I still prefer to peruse catalogs first and then order online. I also miss the Sears and JC Penney Christmas catalogs too. I guess I'm just old school. We got down to 0°F over the weekend in east TN.
North Florida_Williston, Orange Lake Area~ Friday night it got down to 22'f with 10'f wind chill, Saturday Night down to 23'f with 13'windchill factor, Sunday Night down to 26'f with wind chill 20'F, Monday night which is tonight 12/26 suppose to get down to 31'f with winds light and variable, so far no frost, just hard freezes! Very Unusual, and probably set record breaking temps for so many nights in a row of temps in the low 20's for this area! Watered my Citrus trees real well Thursday night and Piled hay thickly all in at the base and in the branches of my citrus trees then wrapped them like a cocoon with frost cloth, Hopefully the tree will live above the graft, may have to cut back dead wood later and the trees halfway back, but better it's than losing the whole trees! I'll let you know if that worked for me!
I've been to Portland, Maine during the summer and it's wonderful. But I think I'll stay down here in the winter. I've never seen more than foot of snow on the ground -- ever.
I love BC & ordered 99% of my seeds from there when I lived in Colorado ( our zones were similar). With moving to Texas I wanted to find more local seeds that is more similar to my climate. I just found Mary's heirloom seeds & I plan on trying them out. Although I'm sure I'll still order a ton from BC. But no I'm not a catalog person either.
You can cut most of the semi dried pods of okra off and dry them in a dry area inside, just open the pod a little bit to see if the seeds are black or a gray green color which means that they are ready. They will continue to dry on a table or counter. I've done it many times myself. We got down to about 27 degrees in the Orlando area. That's really cold for us. I do not know how the people in those snow covered places can do that for months at a time. I don't think I'll ever complain about the heat again.
Speak for yourself when it is 90 degrees at 70 percent humidity I am gonna be grumpy. When it gets below 50 I am gonna be grumpy. Guess I am hard to please.
I’m in Alabama “Roll Tide “ bout 30 from Tuscaloosa and Birmingham right in the middle and it got down to 16 wind chill of -12. I did have the luxury though of moving what plants I have left inside my shop with a oil heater going so they made it ok Enjoy the videos and happy holidays to y’all. Gonna try and get some of your seeds when you post them Thanks
What are your favorite seed catalogs that you receive every year? Let us know!
SHOP LAZY DOG FARM FIG TREES: lazydogfarm.com/collections/fig-trees
0:00 Intro
1:14 Our Favorite Seed Catalogs
5:42 Growing Okra for Seed
9:50 How to Heat a Greenhouse in the Winter?
14:05 Fig Trees Available for Shipping
"Okree"🤘It's so rare for me to hear an accent so much like mine on the internet,I love it.
I order all my seeds from MI Gardener. They don't put out a catalog to keep costs down, so most of their seeds are $2/pkg., with free shipping on orders $12 and up.
We have a drip irrigation that we installed prior to putting the beds in place. We have several videos on our channel showing the process.
I get most of mine from MIGardener as well. Used to order from Baker Creek too but they started charging 15$ to ship to Canada and limited orders so you couldn't even save by ordering with friends. I like seed hunting in stores too, looking for new and different brands to try!
Always👍🏻 I remember being the only one putting the word out about Luke and what he was doing several years ago. Now there’s several on any video or post about seeds/seed catalogs.😂
I like MIgardener and Seeds n Such for other varieties.
Here in Villa Rica Georgia we got down to 8 degrees with a -5 windchill. Hope to never see that temperature ever again. All of my chickens, goats, rabbits and dogs survived. It took a lot of work but I did it for my animals.
We're up on a bluff in NE AL. We got down to 3°F with a wind chill of -18. I had 2 heaters and a heat lamp and Christmas tree lights running in my 10x12 Harbor Freight greenhouse and moved my younger quail into it to try to protect them. My citrus trees came though, but I lost my peppers, tomatoes and some other plants. I've had enough winter weather and am ready for spring to come now.
Got down to 8 degrees in SW Arkansas. I'll be watching for your fig trees on the website, hoping to get some started this Spring!
I think it got down to 29 in my area of central Florida. I gave up on my 2nd summer experiment with cukes, zucchini, yellow squash (harvested 3- used them in stir fry) bok choy (3 kinds of baby variety with small harvest (again for stir fry) but have tomato plants ready to bloom, new okra already putting out blossoms and some peppers that look healthy. I moved all the latter plants into my garage for Christmas wkend. Starting Tues I've been bringing them out to the sunshine on the driveway and hauling them back to garage at dusk. The carrots (2kinds, 1 in pelleted form) did fine with just a sheet thrown over them. Tomorrow it should be high of 80 degrees. I'll cart everything back to their places in my backyard. Guess half my experiment is working, I'm learning a lot.
It got cccold .. -1 degree F wind chill -15 , -39 degrees F , middle Tennessee , Smokey Mountains .
North/East Mississippi got down to -9 wind chill -31
Lubbock Tx 4 degrees with a 30mph wind. Wind chills in the -20s to -30.
Got down into the 60s in Riverside, CA. 😀
Here in Madison County Florida, south of Thomasville, it got down to 18. At my home in South Florida, it got down to 31. Had some damage. I’ll know more when I get back home. Happy Holidays and thanks for sharing💚💚💚
Central KY. Two days cold, minus 6 and minus 3.
It was 8°F when I left my East Atlanta home on Saturday. Returned today, anything that was not covered was killed. Time to try again…
I really like the Hoss seed selection. And the seed germination rate is amazing! I had a wonderful 2022 garden. 😊 I used y'alls Kodak Brown mustard cover crop after I harvesting my potatoes. Use that mustard before planting my garlic this Fall.
14 degrees here in Avoyelles parish Louisiana.
San Diego. It was 78 degrees Christmas week
17 degrees Fri, 21 Sat and 22 Sun here in Charleston. Calling for 26 tonight and by the weekend we may see highs around 70. Covered everything with leaves/pine straw and then covered that with tarps/blankets/sheets. Cabbage is looking rough, not sure they will make it. The few radishes I didn't harvest before the freeze are toast. Collards, carrots, bunching onions, swiss chard, herbs look good. I pulled most of my lettuce beforehand to eat and transplant into buckets and put into the garage. I did leave a few to see what happened. The couple I left exposed are toast, but the couple I totally covered with leaves and a tarp look okay I think.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who worries about garden, greenhouse and chickens etc
We live in central NC. We got down to single digits (around 8 degrees Fahrenheit) with windchill down around zero. Had a couple day of this.
My top go to seed companies are: Hoss Tools, Southern Seed Exposure, MIgardener & Mary's Heirloom
Here in the Missouri Ozarks we got down to -27 with windchill. The temps were also in the negatives but not sure what since I refused to go outside...lol No greenhouse to worry about but it wouldn't of matter with wind gusts up to 40 mph. I live in what we call a small prairie area, flat, with no trees, and lots of coyotes. We managed with no frozen pipes and all of the animals were warm and had water that wasn't frozen. I live in a small community so we had a phone chain where everyone called or stopped by to see if we were alright. My boss called and was going to bring me coolers full of water if I needed it for the animals. I am truly blessed to live in a small community that cares. I love seed catalogs and I'm not too far from Baker's Creek. I order most of my seeds from MIGardner and occasionally buy from Baker's creek. Seed catalogs get me in trouble, I order way too much, but I order online. The FFA loves it when I over-order because I give them the seeds I don't have room for in exchange I get a discount when they have starters. We all work together to do the best we can.
We got down to 16 degrees here in SW Louisiana
Battling this cold has been interesting! It got down to 18 here in Louisiana and was below 32 for over 48 hours. Hoping our newly planted citrus trees fared ok. Looking forward to ordering a few figs from y'all!
The Baker Creek catalog is a favorite of my kids. It gets them excited about their gardens beds and they always ask for different varieties to try.
I don’t grow as much from them in the big garden, but I love that my kids have started growing in their own spaces because they were inspired by all the pretty pictures 😁
Air temp in northeast PA was -1. Wind chill -20
North central WA we got negative 21 real temp with negative 29 windchill
Thank you for the information about the catalogs. We have not received several of our regulars.
Well, I am up in Tonawanda N.Y. about 4 miles north of Buffalo N.Y. If you have been watching the news you know how cold we got. A big shout out to Bluetti that kept my boiler going when the power went out. My small EB55 kept my boiler powered up for 11 hours. The power came on after 3 hours but I left the EB55 hooked up all night just to see if it could hold up. 👌👍
4 + feet of snow from all of the drifts. I still have not dug out yet, But luckily I am retired so I don't care if I get out before spring.
Young Harris Georgia, Saturday night the 24th was -1 without the windchill. The high Christmas day was 13. Four straight days that the temp never got over 32. Had to breakout the kerosene heater in the greenhouse to keep it in the 40's. Tomatoes, lettuce and cucumbers all survived.
We’re in Lagrange, Ga. Got down to 9 degrees with 18 mile an hour winds. Three days of not getting above freezing. Covered raised beds with plastic and ran a heat lamp in some beds which maybe helped rutabaga, collards, strawberries,and carrots. Beets didn’t make it. In the greenhouse we had a heater, 3 heat lamps and two strings of Christmas lights going. Saved lettuce,spinach,beets,parsnips,collards and rutabagas. Swiss chard looks rough and lost the one tomato and pepper plant that was still producing. I also have one corner as a compost pile and a black water barrel in another corner. So happy it’s over!!
Here in Dallas Georgia it got down to 7 degrees. Very cold for our location.
got down to 9 in metro ATL. Almost all of my plants died. Looks like garlic survived, hopefully the onions will recover too.
Good morning. I just found your channel. We are just south of Tallahassee, Florida and it was 22 degrees. (I am just a beginner gardener.) We ordered a green house and positioned it over my raised bed. With 2 heat lamps and a heater strategically placed, we were able to keep my tropical plumerias at 40-45 degrees. My vegetables at the back were a little cooler, but ok.
Welcome!
Excited about Cajun B’s okra seed! Thanks for sharing - north florida here - still waiting to uncover plants- one more night of frigid temps- hoping they all survived!
7 below zero wind chill in Middle Tn, Travis!🥶🥶
I’m here in western Montana. And we where hitting. -40 with the wind chill. And we do a lot of our ordering from pine tree and baker creek. I will check out the other seed websites you mentioned
NE Ohio was 41° at 3:30 am 18° at 11am and 2° at 8pm. Ya it got pretty darn chilly with 30+ mph winds and blowing snow. But Christmas couldn't be stopped. Hope you and yours had a good one.
Here in South Alabama Saturday morning was 16 degrees.
15 degrees here just north of Houston - 2 out of last 3 years we've had this nonsense. Last time it came in February. Today will be the first night above freezing since last Wednesday. Lost a bunch, saved a bunch. Very thankful for modern day grocery stores. 😃😃😃
and Happy New Year!!!!! Go Dawgs.
GO DAWGS!
I can personally vouch for the ‘Ruiz’ okra, I got a handful from Travis last winter when he offered some free with the order of his t-shirts. They are tasty, they put on a ton of pods and they thrived in our Texoma summer heat from early May until mid November.
Glad you liked it!
For the corners of the greenhouse, get a piece of pipe insulation, if it doesn't already have one cut a slice all the way down the length and put it over the corners. Unless the wind gets really bad should be a good temp fix that will work over and over again. Good luck
North central indiana - about -15F with 30 mph winds for a windchill in the -40F range.
I'M IN CENTRAL FLORIDA ONE 9B AND WE GOT IN THE 20'S WITH WIND CHILL IN THE HIGH TEENS
We had 17 degrees close to Houston Texas. New sub
Welcome to the channel!
7 degrees Allentown PA
Cold as a Witch's Heart in a brass bra, 20' for 4 nites in a row, So. Ala. Please talk about wireworms and potatoes when you do the potato interview.
Yes. Lots of folks eat them. I usually just feed them to the chickens or compost them because we have so many other greens growing in the garden too.
The lowest actual temperature I saw in VA Beach was 12 degrees Fahrenheit
It got down to 6° with a windchill of -11° here in Walnut Grove, AL. Our cold water line froze. We just moved here on Thanksgiving so I had no plants to worry about. But now I know how to prepare next year.
6 degrees F, (-15 or -20 F after wind chill) Finger Lakes Region in Central NY State.
In East Central AL, we got down to 7 degrees. Stayed below freezing about 58 hrs straight with a couple more nights below freezing just after. Luckily, I had already lost everything from the previous freeze and gave up.
Central Florida 28 for 6 hours. Got the nested catalog & and enjoy browsing through. Thanks for sharing 🙏 😎 🏖 🏝
One inch pieces of velcro space every 6 inches on the sides will help seal the sides. John S
Yeah I thought about that too. Good idea.
-17 here in Pierce, Colorado!
Ouch!
We are in the northern suburbs of Dallas and got down to 10 degrees Friday morning. Finally made it to above freezing on Christmas afternoon for a few hours. Back down to the 20's last night but will be in the 70's by Friday. Everything under our row cover got but a little. We did loose the broccoli and cauliflower plants and some of our onions look really sad. I think the collards and kale will bounce back. Y'all stay warm.
got down to -10F here in Chicago last thursday. the high was a sweaty 0F.🥶
It's gonna be in the 40s this week!
Gotta love that unpredictable Chicago weather!
I am in East Texas by the Louisiana line at I-20. It was 11 degrees when I woke up at 5:30 Saturday morning. I went back to bed 😂😂😂.
Don't blame ya!
We got down to -1F here in Cookeville, TN. We were able to get the last cabbage and Brussels Sprouts harvested, but as you can imagine, nothing that was left out there made it through Christmas.
I'm Canadian but in Florida near St. Petersburg on vacation and it got to about 34°F! Wasn't expecting to wear my winter coat and long johns but that's exactly what I did lol.. but it's much better than where our farm is in Niagara - across the border from Buffalo. Huge storm and it was 56 hours without power.. our angel neighbours went over to our house with their generator to try to get the furnace going! I'm nervous about all the plants I had in the sunroom.. 2 lemon trees, 1 orange tree, 2 bougainvilleas that were my Mom's, lots of sentimental plants like that. 😬🤞🤞
11 degrees in NE Texas with -3 windchill. First year w my new greenhouse and it got down to 25 degrees w 2 small electric heaters. Citrus seems to be okay since no wind. Controlling the extremes is proving to be quite a challenge....the sunny days shoot up to 90s. A work in progress and tons of fun anyhow.
That early Friday morning (December 23) the temperature hovered between 9 and 10 degrees here in Shaw,Mississippi. The Saturday low was 12 degrees! I think that was lower than the worst temperatures we had last winter! 🥶
I just got some seeds for the Turkey Creek tomato. Cant wait to try that one. We got down to -2 here in middle Tn.
I moved all my fig and citrus into my workshop. It got down to 9 degrees at my place near Henderson, Texas.
It got down to 23° in Mobile.
Houston Texas zone 9A we got down 20 degrees
I am looking forward to the dwarf cowhorn Okra seeds!!!
NC 14 in my Greenhouse
It got down to 0 degrees here in Bethel Springs, Tennessee. I have some 12 foot tall figs that I'll be amazed if they didn't freeze to ground level.
Got down to 9 degrees in NE Texas. Most of my plants were covered but my onions look like they took the biggest beating. Green tops all are wilted over. I may have to place an order with Dixon Dale for replacements.
Yeah our onions look pretty rough. Hoping they will recover.
Merry Christmas. 👍
Merry Christmas!
14 degrees' was the high mid atlantic , My question about the cold weather is , Did February weather come early , or are We going have major cold winter like back in the 1977 when Chesapeake Bay froze over ? I bet your DAD remember that year . Black PICKLE BARREL ( 2) WITH A AQUARIUM HEATERS WOULD BE CHEAPER than running electric heaters .TRY OF ROLL OF BLUE PAINTERS TAPE it hold longer and doesn't stick.
I like the painters tape idea!
Think I’ll order the rose gold, and the Baltic rose from wood prairie farms
Good choices!
Got down to 1° here in rural NW Oklahoma with the wind chill in the -25° range. Got the stock tanks to start thawing finally. Looking forward to trying Wood Prairie Farm potatoes.
It was -25 actual temp the other day here in north east Minnesota, up here we don't plant potatoes till may, sometimes we still have snow on the ground in May sometimes still on mothers day, usually snow disappears in April though
38 degrees F Cape Coral Fl
Get my seeds from Hoss and Johnny’s seeds. North Louisiana got down to 9 degrees
We are in middle tennessee our temperature went down to - 1
John S
North FL and we got down to 22, and my cucumbers survived! 200 watt bulb lamp under blankets hung on the hoops
Southern Kentucky, it got -7 with wind chills of -27, the coldest it has been here in decades.
We got to 12, then the following 3 nights at 20. All of my cold crops froze. My carrots may pull through. They don't look as bad as the cabbage, broccoli,and collard greens.
Travis, Interesting video. Here in S.N.H. down to 8 degrees this weekend in early morning hours. Speaking about seed catalogs, for years catalogs flooded our mail. Today, I don't mind not getting a catalog, if that helps the company keep seeds prices lower. Just received my Lab Soil Report, from UNHCE (University of NH Coop Extension). Thank you for the video, and all the best to you and yours.
I've gotten Seeds and Such, Totally Tomatoes, Pinetree, Tomato Growers, Morgan County,, HP, Osborne and Victory so far. I ordered some harder to find pepper seeds from Sandia.
Love THE WHOLE SEED CATALOG from BAKER CREEK! Got my hands on 21 seeds for “Shinshu” runner bean - the largest bean in the phaseolus vulgares family. Look forward to growing out the variety in 2023 and learning what it does. Your Turkey Creek tomatoes sound intriguing! Best wishes fromKate in Olympia,WA - 12/26/2022.
Travis located by Lake Erie so cold I thought I saw -16 then wind. We had a white Christmas sadly too cold to even go out and enjoy any of the beauty. Hope everyone had a great holiday and I look forward to fig sale.
Cold doesn’t describe how cold it got here in NWFL….16 degrees!!!! We had propane and electric heaters going in our 20x20 greenhouse along with dropping the ceiling so the heat would stay closer to our plants. Looks like everything survived without much damage except my husband who was very tired from checking the temps every two hrs for the three nights it was cold.
NW Georgia here. We got down to about 8º with a 35 mph wind taking us well under 0º with the wind chill. Too cold for this frost-tender flower! 🌻
24 in High Springs, FL. My Green Magic Broccoli looks sad
Yeah my broccoli plants are toast. Glad I was able to harvest it all before the cold weather got here.
Burleson Tx. 10 degrees
I hope your family had a wonderful Christmas and y'all didn't lose too much in the freaky cold weather, especially those figs cuttings. LOTS of fig cuttings, wow!
The lowest we got in our area of NE Texas (Zone 8a) was 9 degrees overnight on the 22nd, not sure of the wind chill that day, but winds were blustering all day and night. I didn't have anything growing to worry about. We were just very thankful not to have any power outages or busted pipes.
And the onions I pre-soaked for a day and planted in a container on the 19th sprouted on the 22nd. I may have "jumped the gun" a bit, but usually I'm too late, so it is what it is...
Central coastal FL, 26F, 2 mornings. Lost basil and beans, the only ones I covered. Broccoli, cabbage, onions, cauliflower, kale, carrots & lettuce were okay!
For the greenhouse, maybe a few options to try in the future:
Water filled bins, that you place in the greenhouse in the morning. They heat up during the day (could even potentially fill with hot water) and then she’d their heat slower than the air. Can go big like the 275 gallon totes or plastic 55 gallon drums or just pickle buckets.
Small piles of hot (active) compost not unlike what Will Allen used to do in his Green Houses in Milwaukee with 6’ snow drifts built up against. Heat released from the micros in the pile produce heat as long as the temp never falls to low slowing the break down.
Smudge Pots, though the full sized ones would b likely a rather disastrous result inside the green house. This is what I’ve been using and Citrus growers use them down here where I’m at in East Central Fl (and across the state) to help keep everything a few degrees higher by burning anything from diesel to used turkey fryer oil. I ran my the night of Christmas to protect my Mango Trees and they ran 9 hrs and only used two thirds of the used cooking oil I put in the base. You can buy new and place them about 10’ from the green house, but always seeing used ones online and at used sales. There are much smaller versions that act like tiki torches that might do the job. Hard to beat the price (after you’ve bought the pots) of free by using your spent cooking oil!!!
Not sure any of that may work for you, but regardless I always love the videos you put together!!! Keep up the phenomenal work!!!
Got 2 already, Holmes Seed Company and Baker Creek Heirloom. Should be getting a few more with Johnny Seed being my favorite.
I know seed catalogs are expensive for the seed companies, but I still prefer to peruse catalogs first and then order online. I also miss the Sears and JC Penney Christmas catalogs too. I guess I'm just old school. We got down to 0°F over the weekend in east TN.
Yeah I have fond memories of thumbing through those JC Penney catalogs as a kid and making a wish list for Santa.
North Florida_Williston, Orange Lake Area~ Friday night it got down to 22'f with 10'f wind chill, Saturday Night down to 23'f with 13'windchill factor, Sunday Night down to 26'f with wind chill 20'F, Monday night which is tonight 12/26 suppose to get down to 31'f with winds light and variable, so far no frost, just hard freezes! Very Unusual, and probably set record breaking temps for so many nights in a row of temps in the low 20's for this area! Watered my Citrus trees real well Thursday night and Piled hay thickly all in at the base and in the branches of my citrus trees then wrapped them like a cocoon with frost cloth, Hopefully the tree will live above the graft, may have to cut back dead wood later and the trees halfway back, but better it's than losing the whole trees! I'll let you know if that worked for me!
Covered most everything. Had to keep them covered for so long. 19 in Pensacola and feezing for 3 days. Think most made it. Swiss Chard is sad.
Chicago northwest burbs -12 F. I totally think you should journey up to Maine. When was the last time you saw 5 to 6 ft of snow on the ground? 🤣🤣
I've been to Portland, Maine during the summer and it's wonderful. But I think I'll stay down here in the winter. I've never seen more than foot of snow on the ground -- ever.
We saw 6 degrees in west virginia on Saturday, with wind chills reaching -12.
6 degrees here in SW AR...mulched 150 onions and all the strawberries...everything else is toast
got down to -8 here in se Kansas been starting a few things in my little greenhouse can't wait for spring
I love BC & ordered 99% of my seeds from there when I lived in Colorado ( our zones were similar). With moving to Texas I wanted to find more local seeds that is more similar to my climate. I just found Mary's heirloom seeds & I plan on trying them out. Although I'm sure I'll still order a ton from BC.
But no I'm not a catalog person either.
You can cut most of the semi dried pods of okra off and dry them in a dry area inside, just open the pod a little bit to see if the seeds are black or a gray green color which means that they are ready. They will continue to dry on a table or counter. I've done it many times myself.
We got down to about 27 degrees in the Orlando area. That's really cold for us. I do not know how the people in those snow covered places can do that for months at a time. I don't think I'll ever complain about the heat again.
Speak for yourself when it is 90 degrees at 70 percent humidity I am gonna be grumpy. When it gets below 50 I am gonna be grumpy.
Guess I am hard to please.
I’m in Alabama “Roll Tide “ bout 30 from Tuscaloosa and Birmingham right in the middle and it got down to 16 wind chill of -12. I did have the luxury though of moving what plants I have left inside my shop with a oil heater going so they made it ok Enjoy the videos and happy holidays to y’all. Gonna try and get some of your seeds when you post them Thanks