Tag: winter gardening
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How to Make a Frost Cover with Clothes Hanger Hoops
With the reduction in daylight hours, it’s getting colder out there, but my gardening season isn’t done yet. This winter, we’re performing a garden experiment that involves continuing the growing season through the winter months. As part of that experiment, we need to protect our plants from the coming frost, and possibility of snow. Frost…
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Overwintering: Extend the Garden Season by Bringing Your Plants Indoors
Overwintering is the process of manually maintaining temperature and light for your plants so to sustain a slow level of growth even in the plant’s usual period of dormancy. This can be done indoors during winter while the outdoor garden slumbers. If you plan to overwinter plants, bringing them indoors for the winter, you need…
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Persephone Period and What It Means For Your Garden
When it comes to planning and managing your garden, you need to take seasonal light levels into account. Plants not only need sunlight for photosynthesis, but they also need the heat generated by the sun’s rays. While gardeners tend to think in terms of Spring, Summer, and Autumn, it is worthwhile to take sunlight levels…