Curious about Northern crops

After seeing Billy NY"s oat crop got me to wondering. My Oats here in N. Florida just dried up in May. They grew well through the winter in some very cold weather, relatively speaking (several overnite lows of lower 20"s.

Do any crops grow through the winter in the northern states? Here, rye, wheat, oats and many vegetabless can stand and thrive with heavy frosts. Just wondering...

There are no crops that grow up here in winter. A number survive the winter but are dormant. Winter wheat and rye are two cereal grains that must be planted in the fall and overwinter as seedlings in order to produce a crop the following summer. Hay such as timothy, alfalfa and clover survive the winter.

The only thing we can grow in the winter here in Massachusetts is snow banks. We average close to 100" of snow per Winter.

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Maple sap will run on any warm day (50's-60's with bright sun) starting in January. Harvesting is not worth the effort until the beginning of March in Eastern Massachusetts. Tapping too early will ruin the holes and make them less productive later on in the season.

Grass turns green and starts to grow around April fools day. Pond ice generally disappears during March but sometimes as early as February. Lake ice is more durable.

Orchards are pruned in late winter. Winter is also good time to harvest lumber.

I live just outside of Houston Tx. I have a garden all year long. The two worst months are August & September but other than that I am going full blast.

That stand produced the best yield in comparison to all the other fields he planted last year, good soil, holds a lot of moisture and he sprayed, fertilized, the people at the elevator also said his entire crop was the best they had come in, from what he told me. He's done a lot of oats, I saw a photo and I hope to get a copy of it, of him in the late 50's with JD 420 & JD pull behind combine harvesting oats, been at it a long time. That crop produced a 2nd crop topped out with heads again, but the cold weather and season change kept it back, yield would not have been as much, sure would have made nice hay, but he would have had a real narrow window to get it to dry.

I've had tomatoes grow until December, I plant a garden against the perimeter of the house facing south, sun hits it all day long just kept em covered at night, only problem is the temperature. This location is the perfect place for a greenhouse or solarium type room for same, could easily heat it by opening cellar windows and letting some heat out from my wood stove, there is no doubt I could keep things growing all year, hand pollinating etc. Grasses in the corners start to green up in February on that side.

Only thing I see around is winter wheat or rye planted in the fall, nothing else really grows without some help to keep the temperature up.

My dad once tried winter wheat and barley, but the frost kill was so bad that only a very small percentage survived. That, and the fact that the spring was so wet that the plants actually rotted before starting to grow in the spring. I wouldn't bother this far north trying to grow any winter grains, but maybe there are some crops that will survive winters this far north. (nova Scotia)

I assume you mean northers states in USA. Nova Scotia? Nothing actually "grows" here in MI in winter and that was your question. Winter wheat and alfalfa survive the winter very well and come up clean in spring because the weeds kill out and the crop shades the new weeds out so you have a good clean crop without sprays.Most golden ripe wheat fields aren't that clean because of spray.