Harvesting Strategy For Large Gardens In Cold Climates
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- Опубликовано: 26 авг 2024
- We put a fair bit of thought and strategy into the general harvesting of our considerable garden. When you're growing in a cold climate, after that first frost date, your garden is always at potential risk of frost. This video talks about how we prioritize our harvests to ensure we get everything that we grow from our garden.
If you're looking for our article we discussed in the video, you can find it here:
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We have a pretty short growing season and an even shorter "fall" to work with. Sometimes we get a week, sometimes it's a month. There's no telling what the season will bring! But, inevitably, the snowfall and very cold temperatures will descend upon us. It's up to us to make sure our garden is fully harvested by then.
Over the years, we have fully aligned our harvesting efforts based entirely upon the cold temperature tolerance of plants. This ensures we prioritize foods that will be damaged by frost. For more frost tolerant plants, we have a little bit more flexibility as these plants can easily survive the "cool, but not cold" temperatures we often see before winter sets in.
This strategy really helps us manage our time related to preservation. Growing a larger garden can definitely be challenging and harvest season brings a ton of work. Having a plan going in doesn't solve all the difficulties, but it does make things a little more manageable. Since adopting the ideas presented in this video, we have been able to preserve much more of our gardens.
Having a good harvest strategy also helps the gardener from becoming overwhelmed. It's easy to feel like there's simply "too much to do" when growing a large garden, but prioritizing things gives you a solid way to manage it.
We hope you enjoy our video and appreciate you stopping by to give us a watch!
Thank you for sharing all of your knowledge…people don’t usually talk strategy concerning harvest in the cooler climates. How helpful. God bless u both.
Thanks for the kind comment! One of our goals is try to do some of the things few people talk about. We're less about the low lying fruit, more about the harder, more difficult stuff! Appreciate the watch!
Thanks for stopping by! Harvest time is always crazy for us, so finding the time to put together a video during it wasn't easy. Despite those challenges, I'm really happy with how this one turned out. If you're growing in a cold climate and struggling to keep up, we hope this video brings a little sanity back into your life. Having a solid harvest plan every year really helps us and we hope that talking about it helps you!
We just ran across your videos recently, great channel! We are California coastal gardeners, we rarely get to 70° in summer. Appreciate all your sharing about gardening in cold weather.
Thanks, we're trying hard! We've seemed to gather a few Californians, from coastal to the Sierra Nevada. Glad you found us and we hope to contribute further to cold climate growing efforts!
Subbed you, like your style getting straight to the point without any nonsense. Also, most gardening channels talk about much warmer climates than mine, yours look much like here in Finland. Keep up the good work!
Fantastic! We are growing in a very similar climate to Finland, up in Fairbanks, Alaska. We noticed the same thing you have, so that's why we make content for us northerners. Thanks for the watch & kind comment!
Your job is great 😊
Thank you for the comment and watching our video!