3 Steps to Protect your Garden from Cold Weather, Frost & Freeze!

Today I’m going to show you what I do to protect my vegetable garden from cold weather, snap frost, and even a snap freeze!
Depending on where you live in the world, the fall and spring (and sometimes even winter) can bring surprise frost and freeze warnings. Most vegetables we tend to plant in the fall or spring, generally like cool weather. However, some of those plants need you to protect them from an unexpected or early spell of cold weather! Whether you have young seedling plants in your garden, or tender cool weather plants that can be damaged by frost and freeze, I’m going to give you my fail safe approach to using whatever frost protection I have available to protect my garden from surprise cold weather, frost, and even freeze!
It's a simple 3 step approach, and it takes all the stress out of a surprise frost or freeze so you can get your tender garden plants protected fast with what you have!

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Time-stamps are listed below to make it even easier to reference the information later!
TIME-LINE:
00:00 – Short Introduction to the method
00:43 – SNAP FEEZE! – As Gardner’s we are not always ready for fast changes in weather
01:17 – DOC’s 3 Step Process –how I approach things in the garden
01:43 – TOOLS OF THE TRADE – The tools I have on hand and use for cold weather protection
02:46 – SUBSTITUTES – Things I’ve used in the past to prtect my garden plants that work!
03:10 – STEP 1 – Identifying what you have my 4 categories
05:35 – STEP 2 – Prioritize! Here’s what I think is most important in the garden for me.
07:49 – STEP 3 – Act! Start moving through your list to get it done.
09:08 – OVERVIEW – Quick look at some of the things I covered and what the garden looks like
10:30 – RECAP AKA THE SHORT VERSION – the best way I know to learn things is to recap
11:21 – ADVICE FOR HEAVIER FREEZE – Some Tricks I’ve used in a longer or colder freeze
11:44 – THANK YOU – you guys are the best!
12:16 – LIVE YOUR BEST LIFE: the four things that help me get through life!

Thanks for taking the time to watch this video! What is your go-to method to jump into the garden and protect your plants from a snap frost or freeze, or even cold weather? Let me know in the comments. I always love to hear how other people do things and it helps us all learn!
Thanks again and don't forget to get your hands dirty!

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