Planting a garden in a mountain corner of Wyoming where there is no official growing season... As in most areas have a "last frost date" and "first frost date" and in general (though not always!) you can pretty much count on plants growing with no frosts and freezes in between. If you don't know what your growing season is, you can put in your location in this handy little calculator - https://davesgarden.com/guides/freeze-frost-dates/index.php and it will tell you some general info. Like in my parent's area, they generally have a frost free growing season a little over 150 days long so they can plant things that take up to that many days to mature without freezing. But in my area, there's always a chance of frosts or freezes all summer. So really what I grow is kind of what many people would call a
Showing posts with label cold climate. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cold climate. Show all posts
Friday, May 15, 2020
Planting a Tiny House Garden with No Frost Free Summer
Labels: tiny house, off grid, fy nyth,
cold climate,
frost cover,
frozen,
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grow your own,
real food,
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Tuesday, April 28, 2020
Tiny House Garden - Is the Gopher Proofing Working?
The garden above is the one I started as soon as the snow melted my very first spring here in the tiny house. And after a lot of work to create it, mostly involving removing truckloads worth of rocks from the size of chicken eggs to dinosaur eggs (seriously, some weighed more than me! 💪), it thrived for several years. Those rocks all went into helping form the lane that leads to my house. Then that lovely garden was discovered by evil marauding little demons. Otherwise known as
Labels: tiny house, off grid, fy nyth,
cold climate,
garden,
gophers,
grow your own,
raised beds,
real food
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