How We Achieved Food Abundance in Late October (Zone 5)
Tips, Tricks
Today I thought I’d share changes we’ve made over the years to ensure we’re still growing and harvesting lots of crops in late October instead of cleaning up the garden for winter. If you shop on Amazon, you can support OYR simply by clicking this link (bookmark it too) before shopping: http://www.amazon.com/?tag=oneya-20 How we achieved food abundance in late October: 1) Cold hardy crops 2) Succession planting cold hardy crops 3) Self-sowing cold hardy greens 4) Cold hardy edible perennials 5) Season extension with cold frames and hoop houses Some of the crops in our garden that can survive a light frost without protection include artichokes, beets, carrots, celery, endive, lettuce, Swiss chard, perpetual spinach, arugula, radicchio, and bok choy. And some that can survive a hard frost without protection include kale, collards, mustard greens, parsley, radishes, spinach, turnips, sunchokes, dandelion greens, French Sorrel, red veined sorrel, mache, claytonia, and minutina. One Yard Revolution is all about growing a lot of food on a little land using sustainable organic methods, while keeping costs and labor at a minimum. Emphasis is placed on improving soil quality with compost, mulch, and compost tea. No store-bought fertilizers, soil amendments, pesticides, compost activators, etc. are used. Channel Page: http://www.youtube.com/user/OneYardRevolution Join me on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/oneyardrevolution
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Thank you so much for sharing your wisdom! You and Eliot Coleman have inspired me and my wife to extend our 2000 square foot Illinois garden into the winter. We are busy building low tunnels and cold frames now, and are trying to find an affordable gothic design for a high tunnel. Eliot Coleman indicates that he continues to plant mache all through the fall and winter when any space becomes available. When is the latest that you have planted or plan to plant your hardiest crops, such as mache and claytonia? Has your mache ever gone dormant like other crops, or does it continue to grow?
Incidentally, in 2012, the USDA examined average temperatures from the last 30 years and rezoned based on the changing climate data. If you are in Chicago, they rezoned it to be 6a now, so your planting dates may have altered slightly now.
Thank you again for your generosity in sharing so much online. We look forward to learning much more from you. BTW, where can we see or hear more of you playing your Taylor guitars?! :D -
Just occurred to me that you and the nostalgia critic live in the same city lol that's 2 very different shades of youtube
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Thanks Patrick that makes me feel a bit better. cheers!
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Dear Mr. Patrick,
After watching your video I was given much needed hope! you see after leaving 40 years in Zone 8 and in love with gardening including flowers and greens I found out that my one only daughter found the love of her life which has made her move to Michigan in Novi area... thank you for a great educational video! Elli -
Thank you so much for sharing your wealth of experience and knowledge. God bless you and yours Patrick
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I appreciate your videos. You make self sufficiency in the garden look very doable and I am encouraged to keep at it when I see your harvest videos. I also really really like your closing song. Who makes the acoustic guitar that you play that song on?
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Love the perpetual spinach here as it grows close to 12 months of the year.
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Hello, I like your videos a lot, I'm new to gardening and I was wondering where do you buy your seeds? I heard you say an online page but I couldn't get the name, another question is, the seeds are organic? or It really doesn't matter if they are not organic?
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everything is looking great Patrick! fall is definitely the time to get those cold loving plants growing
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For the first time, I've got one raised bed going strong like you're showing in this video - in Milwaukee in early November. Credit goes to watching many of your videos earlier this year. I can't wait to build from this next year. Thanks a lot for the great tips, Patrick!
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Yay! Your hoop houses are in!
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Do you have photos of the double protection system?
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Great video! It would be cool to see a video on what you would do different if you had to start all over again with all the lessons you've learned over the last few years. How would you do things different if you had to start fresh?
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everything looks great
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Loved that video, the black and white bits...just love it :-)
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Great video, Patrick! You're blazing a trail for relative "newbies" like myself.
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very very good theres a sub for you my friend i hope you can come visit our channel sometime and maybe sub to stay connected many thanks Adam and Lynsey
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Looks like you had a great year. Your garden looks great too.
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Just awesome Patrick! Thanks for sharing =)
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The garden is still looking great Patrick. We have had several hard frosts here -1 this morning and that is the coldest so far. I planted my artichokes in the ground in the hoop house and now I'm going to cover them with a cold frame fingers crossed that they make it. They were just getting too heavy for me to carry back into the basement every year. I procrastinate and every year this weather sneaks up on me I have frozen garden hoses this morning. Supposed to warm up later in the day so I have a dozen things to do.
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