Winter Vegetable Garden: Are You Planning For One This Winter?

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I've had a winter vegetable garden for the last four years here in the Chicago area (zone 5). In this video, I talk about how I started winter gardening and some of the basics involved in getting started. Will you be growing a vegetable garden this winter? Join me on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/oneyardrevolution How To Make And Apply Compost Tea: http://youtu.be/_4VKLtDuzD8 How We Make All Our Compost: http://youtu.be/t3P_Tw7knyo Our First Batch Of Comfrey Tea: http://youtu.be/w6-MGN8rpkU Planting Our First Fall/Winter Cover Crop: http://youtu.be/OlEQktwaJiE Eliot Coleman's website: http://fourseasonfarm.com/ Growing Power's website: http://growingpower.org/

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is there any advice about saving vegetables from squirrels in Chicago area

Hi, I am from Europe. Planing to do Walipini.

New subscriber here :)

I have a question.

We just moved into a new house and we have a largish backyard but it's winter. I wanted to build beds and prepare the soil (back to eden garden style) for the summer but I'm at a loss because there are two large trees and I know those and the sun will change the amount of light that hits the yard in the summer.

So I'm not sure how to determine where to build the beds and where to plan on planting things since it's winter. I read someone waited a whole year to plan and plant so they could see where the sun was all year but is there a way I can figure out where the sun will be and what it will be like with the trees casting shade in the summer even though it's winter and without waiting a whole year?

I want to plant for sure a handful of fruit trees and berry bushes and a vegetable garden. I'm assuming the trees and berry bushes need medium to high amount of light so that's why I'm hesitant to ore plan and build "blindly" without knowing how the trees will affect the sun and the different sun position and times in the summer at our new house.

Or do you think I can only confidently plant a winter garden and then just wait for summer to see where the sun will be and then build and plant then?

Last year I had one small poly tunnel over a raised bed. zone 6. Between your videos, and the success of the little poly tunnel, I built a 8 x 32 recycled glass lean-to, 20 feet of which is greenhouse. Did not finish in time to have a mature crop in there this winter, but am experimenting with all sorts of things and am having great fun with it. I have watched all your videos. Thank-you for the inspiration. I grew up in the Chicago area. Your yard is amazing! GO VEGETARIANS! And give that cat a hug for me. (Will use your Amazon link and let the ads run for you. ).

Another excellent book... She's a zone 5b Halifax and explain veggie by veggie when to plant for spring and winter... All the different protections for winter...
Niki Jabbour year round vegetables garden

Another excellent video. Love The idea of providing food year round.

Does flavor change in the vegetables that are grown in hoop houses or greenhouses during the extension into fall and winter? With less natural light do you get a noticeable different harvest?

I want to start one and I'm in zone 4b. Any suggestions?

I'm planning on using bamboo to build the greenhouse and a rocket stove to heat it.

I used a soil heating cable with a wooden cold frame-like frame with row tunnels instead of glass on top, I used some big globe string lights too to help heat up the air and I was able to plant kale, swiss chard, radish and kohlrabi at the beginning of March in zone 6, well before the snow was through! I have details and photos here if you're interested. I used Eliot Coleman's book as inspiration. https://shellardadam.wordpress.com/

I am new to winter garden I do plan on building some next year I am going to spend this year studying my yard and see where is a good place to put a few cold frames.

I am in Northern Illinois so I was very excited to see someone from my area that is having success with winter gardening. I have been wanting to try this for a couple of years. Finally this year I started to build a hoop house to extend my growing and also start winter crops in. I started peas, beans, carrots and a number of greens. Unfortunately, anything that did start to germinate was eaten off to ground level. Now that it has gotten colder I wont get things to germinate.

I planted a bunch of seeds about a month ago. most of the have germinated and I'm thinking about building a makeshift cover for them once the snow comes. in north east Ohio here

Nice job on the video, and garden. I l live in Boulder, CO. We're Zone 5 as well. I'm trying to do more winter gardening this year then I've done in the past. We're just finishing up on a nice big hoop house/high tunnel. We'll use floating row cover inside as the 2nd layer of protection. I hope it works out.. We set the record for the warmest September on record, so we're just now pulling out the summer crops and replacing them with transplants that I started at the end of August. I hope I'm not to late with transplanting now, and the weather stays nice for a while so they can get established before it gets to cold. Oh well, I'm trying, my first year..

For the life of me, I cannot find a guide to planting vegetables in England on youtube.I can find America, New Zealand and Canada, but not England!

I am in Oklahoma.I am planning on growing small winter garden but not confident enough to start.Any advice?

Here in Northern Ontario, I would like to know about options for extending the growing season.

I am planning a winter garden this year. I need to figure out how much of my garden space I want to use, and then find materials for the cold frame. I am very interested in adding new foods to my diet. I have been reading Jo Robinson's "Eating on the Wild Side," and may get some ideas from that. I am not familiar with several of the plants you mentioned and hope to try many of those, as well. I need to figure out how many of each plant and how much space to allow for each plant in order to get the proper yield. I still have a problem with that in my warm season gardening, and expect it to be a lot of trial and error. I appreciate any suggestions you may have. Thank you for this and all your videos. They have been a great help technically in addition to being very inspiring. Thanks again! Connie

Thanks for sharing OneYardRevolution! i have never gardened, but now that i own my home i plan to learn how to garden. I live in chicago, so this video is very key to my discovery. Thans for the book references too!

I have been champing at the bit to get into cold frame gardening, just got into my first house late last year. I moved from a Townhome with a condo asso. whom frowned at my enclosed patio with the raised garden beds I put in. Now I can enjoy gardening year round here in Illinois.. can't wait! Thank you for sharing