 Greetings friends! This is Survival Doc. I just wanted to make this short video to share the good news with you. Today my video channel reached 3 million video views. Woohoo! While I've got you on the horn here, I wanted to show you something quickly here. This is December the 10th here in the middle of Missouri, located here in the middle of the United States of America. And today it's about, currently it is 33 degrees Fahrenheit. The load today was about 20 degrees and tonight it's supposed to get down to about 20 degrees. I don't want to show you my garden here. As you can see, I still have this lettuce growing here. Now it's, this lettuce has survived several freezes. Now when we get a real hard freeze, I do cover this with a tarpoleum. Last night it got down to 20 degrees so I did cover this with a tarp. And as you can see the lettuce has begun to wilt so I'm going to go ahead and pick this lettuce now. But lettuce is a cold weather crop. You see I have several different varieties of lettuce here. But this is just to let you know that you can grow in, even as far up north as Missouri. You can grow vegetables in your garden as late as the middle of December. I actually grow three gardens. I grow a cool weather crop garden in the spring. And then I grow a warm weather crop garden in the summer and that's when I'll grow my tomatoes and most of my vegetables. And then I grow another cool weather crop in the fall. And that way I can extend my growing season to about eight or nine months of the year. I think I can grow something outdoors. Not to mention things that I grow indoors. I can grow herbs indoors in my windowsills. Over here is another part of my garden. I have some more lettuce here. More cold weather crops. I have a lot of carrots in here. Now carrots, I also have some root vegetables growing in my backyard. You can actually leave those in the ground through the winter and just pull them up as you need it. There you can see some nice carrots. I'll go ahead and pull these up. Take these inside for supper tonight. Now one thing about carrots, I'm going to leave some of these carrots in the ground here. Because carrots are a biennial that means that they come to seed in two years, not one year. So I'm going to leave some of these carrots in the ground so that next year they will seed. Here you see some bib lettuce. Here's some bib lettuce. Here's some stevia that I'll let go to seed. So I can collect the seeds and grow the stevia. I collect seeds for most of my plants. Here are little stevia flowers. Here's bib lettuce. Bib lettuce and carrots. Also when the weather is cold, I grow other cold weather crops like broccoli, cauliflower. I've got onions still in my garden around back. I've got parsley, another cold weather crop, turnip greens. These are all cold weather crops, but if you choose your crops carefully, you can grow. Have an extended growing season and grow through many months of the year. If you live south of here, if you live down in the south, you can almost grow vegetables of some sort, almost year-round. Of course you can also make a greenhouse and grow year-round. I also have a plastic cover that I put over this sometimes to extend the growing season. And then in the spring, I can plant the seeds a little bit earlier if I cover this ground here and keep the seeds covered. This is Survival Dock. Reminding you, be prepared or be prepared to be fleeced.