As someone who’s gardened through frigid winters in both Iowa and Massachusetts, I’ve learned the hard way that fall and winter strawberry care is critical to a successful harvest come spring. Cold temperatures, frost heave, and disease can take a serious toll on strawberry beds if not properly managed before the snow falls. Here’s a…
You can grow vegetables for harvest in the fall. Plant a fall and winter harvest vegetable garden in mid-to-late summer. Hardy, cool-weather crops are best suited for the fall vegetable garden. Cool-weather vegetables like to get their start in warm soil and come to maturity when days and nights are cool. Cool-weather vegetables include leafy…
Many vegetables can be grown in winter and harvested in winter or early spring. Some vegetables take most of a year to mature; they are planted in spring and harvested in winter. Other vegetables can be sown in midsummer or early autumn for autumn and winter harvest. Vegetables for winter harvest include leeks, salad leaves,…
A row cover is a lightweight, translucent fabric or plastic cover used to protect plants from inclement weather and pests. Row covers are also know as fabric row covers and floating row covers. Row covers are commonly sheets or rolls of spun-bonded polyster material that can be easily rolled or draped over a row of…
Garden cloches — also called hot caps — are plastic, fabric, or glass covers than function as mini greenhouses to protect individual plants from inclement weather or pests. Hot caps are effective at deterring frost on chilly nighs and warming plants on cold days. They can also be used to protect plants from insect or…
A hoop tunnel can protect plants and seedlings from seasonal temperature extremes in early spring and late fall, heat in summer, animals, and flying pests. Hoops can be covered with lightweight, translucent, spun-bonded polyester, plastic sheeting of varying weights, shade cloth, or bird netting. A hoop tunnel is often used as a sort of cold…
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