Live chat with a community of gardeners talking about vegetable gardening for the 2021 year. . This episode features bed preparation chores, pruning chores as well as starting seeds indoors before your first frost. Topics include testing your soil, when to prune fruit trees, preparing your garden beds for the year and when to grow seeds. It also includes a discussion on growing by moon phases, planning your garden for the year, and learning your plants.

Special Guest: Crazed Family Homestead:
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Growing vegetables in America differs depending on your location and zone. This live show discusses what you should be doing in your garden now in February from planting seeds to bed preparation. This show covers vegetable garden tips and advice for the new and old gardener.

Chapters:
0:05 Show Introduction

0:45 Special Guest Introduction - Crazed Family Homestead
2:00 Understanding Your Zone Relative to Zone 7b

3:20 What Are Your February Garden Chores?
3:24 Beds and Pruning Chores
4:38 Pruning Fruit Trees
9:04 Garden Bed Preparation
12:42 How to use your local State University Extension Agent

14:39 What Seeds Are You Starting Now? In February?
14:57 Seed Starts Indoors and Direct Seeding
17:38 How to Plant by Moon Phases
20:42 Planning Your Vegetable Garden
23:50 Two Crops In One Summer? yes Zone 7b
24:36 Determinate versus Indeterminate Tomatoes
25:44 How Many Tomato Plants To Grow
26:54 How Many Growing Seasons in Zone 7b?
28:21 Experimenting With Summer Crops Like Tomatoes
31:45 Learn Your Plant!

35:50 Questions and Answers With The Audience
A variety of questions from nematode identication to keeping deer out of your garden beds. 35 minutes of Q&A.

1:14:14 Peace Y'all Ending
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