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Winter Gardening Tips For Growing Your Own Food All Year Round

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by Lisa Giroday, Sandra Lopuch and Sam Philips | Gardening is all about getting your hands dirty, growing delicious and organic food and connecting to what we eat. This all sounds great, but what if you don’t know how? Victory Gardens has created the educational YouTube series: How To Grow An Organic Vegetable Garden, to help solve this problem.

In this episode, we cover some winter gardening basics so you can grow food all year round. This video covers the region we live in, winter vs. overwinter gardening, timing, planning and crop rotation, the appropriate varieties to grow, and how to keep your veggies warm over winter using mulch, floating row cover and hoop houses. Press play and enjoy!

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