Articles related to "Frost Protection"

You can lug large container plants into the greenhouse or garage for the winter, or you can provide each plant with frost protection right where it lives.

Early Fall frosts can decimate crops such as tomatoes and peppers. Use row covers to create a warm micro-climate.

In many areas, fall is another growing season for vegetables that actually prefer cool weather. Some vegetables even taste better when grown in autumn than in spring.

Learn tips for getting the most out of banana plants in the backyard or landscape, including fruit management, propagation, and general care of banana plants.

Organic gardeners in Northern climates, high elevations, or a locale with cold temperatures, frost, or snow can minimize Winter damage to plants with some preparation.

Winters with snow, ice, freezing, ice storms, and all of the other calamities of the Northern climate and ruin a garden. Learn some simple methods for protecting plants.

Save all the seeds from inside winter squashes and pumpkins this year and with one week's preparation the seeds can be stored and will be ready to sow in the springtime.

Organic gardeners can use safe physical pest control methods such as bug vacuums, row covers, sticky traps, handpicking, cutworm collars, and water sprays to stop bugs.

If you own horses or cows, you may have already tried cleaning and grooming products made for equines and bovines that seem to do well for humans, too.

Healthy, productive grapevines are possible with careful attention to their requirements.

Fall is a time for garden preparation. Plant trees, perennials,grow a vegetable garden,design and install a swimming pool,prune trees, roses and shrubs.

When temperatures dip well below freezing, grape vine winter survival depends on good protection.

Lemon trees are one of the easiest fruit trees to grow in an average-sized suburban yard or garden.

Local farmers, in cooperation with a major commercial processor, get fresh cranberries from farm to market each autumn in a $1.6 billion annual business.

With fall planting and some frost protection, you can have fresh lettuce and other greens even though winter has arrived.