Rainy Day Harvesting! Anticipate! Fertilize before a rain so the fertilizer will soak in. Take the cover off your compost to let it get wet. Tie or stake plants that may topple from wind or weight. Set up to harvest rainwater for later use! Make raised beds, mounds, to help with drainage issues. Mulch to keep [...]
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Rainy Day Tips! Before, During, After!
Posted in Baking Soda, Broccoli, Cauliflower, Fertilizer - Sidedressing, Foliar Feeding, Lettuce, Mildew, Nonfat Powdered Milk, Peas, Raised Beds, Seeds, Snails & Slugs, Strawberries, Watering, tagged after, air, anticipate, arm-chair, baking, bed, before, book, broccoli, cauliflower, circulation, clean, close, compost, container, crunchy, Day, disease, drainage, drench, dry, during, environment, erode, fast, fertilize, foliage, garden, ground, growth, harvest, lettuce, magazine, manure, mature, micro, mildew, milk, mix, mud, mulch, nonfat, overhead, Peas, Plant, potting, powdered, prevention, prune, quick, rain, rainwater, rainy, raise, resistant, secure, seed, shovel, slug, sluggo, snail, soda, Soil, soilless, space, spatter, splash, stake, strawberries, tall, thin, tie, tips, topple, trellis, warm, water, web, weight, wind, worm on December 18, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Protect Your Veggies from Freezing! Cover and tuck ‘em in!
Posted in Bolt Resistant/Slow Bolting, Broccoli, Brussel Sprouts, Carrot, Cauliflower, Frost, Freeze, Greenhouse, Kale, Leeks, Parsnip, Varieties, Winter Plants - Cool Season, tagged 32, air, August, basil, black, blanket, bolt, broccoli, Brussels, burlap, cabbage, cage, calm, cauliflower, chair, chaise, clear, clothes, cloud, cold, coldest, compost, cover, crystal, curtain, damage, Day, daybreak, drop, dry, duration, early, eaves, Fahrenheit, farmers, fertilize, floating, forecast, freeze, frost, Greenhouse, growth, hard, harvest, hot-cap, ice, insulate, kale, killing, leeks, lettuce, market, mature, mulch, N, newspaper, night, Nitrogen, northern, onions, parsnip, Peas, pepper, pin, pot, potato, protect, radish, root, row, sale, season, seed, settle, sheet, shop, sprouts, stalk, sugar, summer, sun, survival, tarp, taste, temperature, tender, thrift, time, tomato, towel, tree, trim, under, water, weather, wet, wind, windbreak, winter, yard on December 3, 2010 | 5 Comments »
Cold season things to know about your veggies! Fertilize. Healthy plants can withstand more cold. But. From August on, if you anticipate a cold winter, avoid applying fertilizer with Nitrogen, apply at half your summer rate, until after the last frost, to prevent a flush of tender growth that can be damaged by the cold. [...]
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