Gardening shouldn’t stop just because it’s cold outside. Gardener Scott discusses important activities to do in winter to help ensure gardening success in summer. (Video #414)
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31 Comments
Good morning, it’s Friday, 9:01 AM, December 16, 2022 …here in Auckland, New Zealand …and it Spring here as well …🙂🙂🙂
It's winter so I'm back to your videos. Will I learn something again?? I believe so.
Oh no! Dont say SNOW! Here is Alaska we are getting more snow than in twenty years. I generally like snow,. But enough is enough and it isn't even January yet. Got another 14" last night bringing me up to over 4' in two weeks. Cannot even see where my garden is supposed to be. At least my garlic and asparagus are well blanketed!❄️❄️❄️❄️ Warm here today at 29 degrees. Good snowi g temperature. ☃️
I recommend Silver Bell Squash.
Watching this in WY. 4 days of straight bad winds with 2 more days forecasted. Dreaming of what I can plant this spring. Not only for the vegetable garden but fruit trees, shade trees, shrubs, and evergreens. As soon as it's 40 degrees, sunny, and no longer windy I can get back outside and continue the cleanup of the dead elms and plan the garden extension.
I love how your garden looks gardener scott. Even when its covered in snow.
Lucifer’s House of Heat on the BC coast has a fantastic selection of peppers! From mild to killer hot. Love them. Fast delivery to. I’ve ordered hot sauces for a Christmas present. Forward!
Very good and practical information here. Thanks for sharing this. I hope you have a Merry Christmas. Cheers, Scott! ✌️
I've watched many of your videos throughout the year. Today I will take the plunge and subscribe. Better late than never. I like your Q and A on Mondays too.
We just got done clearing this weeks 5” heavy wet snow. The trees were stressing and even though it was pretty I had to knock them about as we are going into deep freeze with some added fluff. Z5a WI.
I went through my seeds earlier and knew which I definitely wouldn’t grow again and took them totally out to give away as someone else may like how they perform. One was the white currant cherry, it just doesn’t hold well, more of an eat on sight snack as I found it cracked and deteriorating before I got in the house. The other is a pole bean, I think blue lake or something, it took so long for it to develop and when they did it was pick pick pick or they became over grown and too strong of bean taste. I prefer bush beans as they were stringless and behaved themselves and could wait a day or 3 more until I could pick again without becoming monsters. I noticed the Japanese beetles love pole beans, but not at all on bush. I did like a purple pole and will try again.
Now I won’t mention supplier as I don’t think that’s fair. If some variety didn’t work for me growth or taste, that is my experience or preference from my garden. Just like any review, critical thinking is needed.
Nice chat as I am looking at my seed order that needs to be stored. I definitely have to get onion starts off right this year as the plants are Way too expensive. Trying many types of carrots 🥕 to see if I can find large ones that succeed. I think I have been planting the smaller varieties all this time and wondering why they don’t get big😂. Not all carrot seeds state whether they are chantey, Danvers, Nantes, imperator, etc. Going for Nantes and imperators mainly.
Trying the black krim you all rave about. Switching to Amish paste and have an eye on a grape hybrid as they are suppose to resist cracking and a better oregano. Can’t believe I don’t have enough seeds yet🤣🤣
Have to dig the last of fall carrots before sub zero sets in and then it’s time to get that bare root stock sorted. I lost a honey Berry pollinator due to bad stock sent late. I’ve struggled with peach tree in past, hoping apples do better and realized I need late bloomers due to low area and spring freezes. It will be expensive, but if I want fruit in my lifetime I need to get it planted.
It’s so exciting to peruse all the choices and to hear/read others reviews of what worked for them.
Here’s to dreaming😄 12:56
I dug up my trinidad scorpion at the end of the season… put it in a pot and it is very happy!
It’s all year around project
And, in addition. 20 minutes a day outside – even in the cold- is good for the body and mind…
Really great reminder about this all important reviewing of our past effort – love your plastic file for seed storage – do you have a link for where one can be acquired?
Grew unicorn last year, heavy yield red salad size tomatoes .Has a thicker skin
I’m still bucket growing leaf greens here in zone 6A greenhouse. Hopefully I’ll be able to keep my kale and swiss chard buckets alive til spring
Even though I go out in the garden daily, this is the time of year to plan for the next growing season. I'm still in the process of cleaning flower seeds for next year. I really miss the feel of the sun in my face, now I sit and watch the birds.
Even though moving snow is not as easy for me as it used to be, I am grateful. Our snow levels have been so low over the past few years, the soils dry out. Last year in central WI we only received 19" of snow. This year we are already at 11" and our snowy time has not even begun.
Climate change also changes our plans in the garden for next year. I need to conserve more water, I can pay for it, but in so many ways, collecting it is so much better.
As I look at my barren garden, I think of next year and the abundance that it will produce.
Here in Australia we are dealing with snow as well. This is madness snow in the first month of summer!!!!😬🥶🥶🥶😬
I'm still turning compost. In a while we sill start growing some sweet potatoes on shelves in the enclosed back porch. Then tomatoes and peppers. Fermenting is ongoing. It is almost time to start making the "smell of death" deer and rabbit repellent.
Hi Scott, Love your videos! Where did you find the seed storage container?
I tried your shishito peppers last year had 4 plants loved the peppers grilled according to your video and made some of the sauce also those 4 plants made enough peppers for me and many others I would recommend jimmy nardello peppers if you haven’t already tried them but I cooked them with the shishitos and they are similar but with a little milder and sweeter flavor profile.
I'm planning out winter sowing and loving it!
Hello Gardener Scott, cloudy, cold day here in Bayfield, Co. I kept a journal through this season and ordered seeds from Seed Savers. My San Marzano and Burpee keeper tomatoes were tasteless, so I ordered Black Krio and Amish paste for next summers garden. You inspired me to keep a journal and it certainly paid off.
My seeds arrived 5 days after I put in my order, woohoo!
Great video, great advice. Happy gardening!
It’s been that here in the uk. And I’m 32 years old and never known it below -3
I’m reading through my seed savers catalog as you mentioned it in the video lol😂. I plan to mitigate potential drought issues by starting my seeds early and installing drip in 1-2 beds to test it out. I also plan to buy a kumquat and more dwarf fruit trees
Here is central Florida USA zone 9b we garden 365 days a year. However, we don't have four seasons. We have two. Summer and February.
Lol didn't you say you weren't going to order seeds this coming year? I think in a live you said you plan to grow what you have cause you have so many seeds.
Thank you
I thought you said you weren't ordering anymore seeds for this coming season.
Men are such fickle creatures.
Just kidding, ya. But at least I know I'm not the only one to say, *no more seeds*, only to turn around when I hear of something interesting, and scour the internet looking to find those seeds.
Hugs to Mala 🐕 , and stay warm.
I still have fall plants under 2 cover growing slow but growing! I will get out there 1 to 2 times a week and check for aphids but other than sporadic harvesting I'm in the catalogs! Reorganized my seeds, set up my grow station, cleaning pots and canning! I'm good! The hits will stay and the not so goods will go! It's fun!!!! Blessings Gardener Scott!
Thank you! This was a very timely video for me. Its summer here, and I've done my spring planting, seed sowing etc, and have filed my packets back into my seed box ( case for potos). I should have left out the packets I sowed as you do as I've already lost some of the markers in the garden, and am not sure which varieties of cabbage I planted. So i'll try to do that now, and then review them in winter as you do. Great idea!!! Veges grow here during winter also, – I start the seed sowing in february for autumn and winter, so i'll make sure I put packets into the box for review next late winter and early spring. Thanks again!!!!!