The BEST GUIDE To Protecting Plants From COLD On The Internet!

I'm growing dozens of fruit trees that are outside of my hardiness zone and a productive vegetable garden all winter. I accomplished this by developing reliable plant cold protection methods that keep plants warm in winter. These zone pushing methods can help you grow plants you never thought possible and provide months of garden season extension.

Do you need to protect plants from frost during a rare cold event? Do you want to protect garden vegetables from cold to extend your season? Do you want to be a zone pusher and grow rare plants no one thinks can survive in your area? This video is for you, because it is the best guide to protecting plants from cold on the internet!

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
• PART 1: USING PLANT COVERS
0:00 My Cold Protection Techniques
1:45 Agricultural Fabric VS Other Plant Covers
4:11 How To Use Plant Covers Correctly
• PART 2: HEAT GENERATION
7:49 Warming Method 1: Micro-Climates
9:40 Warming Method 2: Water Barrels
12:53 Warming Method 3: Christmas Lights
• PART 3: GARDEN PROTECTION
15:15 Preventing Cold Protection Failure
16:17 Protecting Vegetable Garden From Cold
• PART 4: TREE PROTECTION
21:31 Protecting Fruit Trees From Cold
24:50 Installing Wireless Controls
27:17 Installing Plant Jackets And Row Covers
• PART 5: DATA ANALYSIS
30:33 Cold Protection Data Analysis
32:07 Results After The Freezes
34:48 Adventures With Dale

If you have questions about how to protect plants from cold weather and want zone pushing tips and tricks, want to learn about growing fruit trees or the things I grow in my raised bed vegetable garden and edible landscaping food forest, need more gardening tips and tricks and garden hacks, have questions about vegetable gardening and organic gardening in general, or want to share DIY and "how to" garden tips and gardening hacks of your own, leave a Comment!

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Zone 8B, 34.1°N Latitude

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