Storm Preparedness

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Here are a few tips to keep your garden alive and thriving through the coming months. ◼ Check weather forecast daily for frost warnings.

◼ Using low tunnels or cloches covered with frost blankets over food crops and cutting gardens may extend the growing season up to one month. ◼ You can also preserve root crops and extend harvest up to one month by removing green leaves and covering with straw, soil or mulch.

◼ In October, start cutting back perennials, leaving 3-inch stubs near the ground. These stubs will catch fallen leaves and provide insulation from the cold. ◼ Add mulch to keep root temperatures stable, and add compost to supply organic nutrients to the soil. Don’t fertilize, as this will prompt new growth at the wrong time of year.

◼ Protect winter greens such as ◼ Cover paths between vegetable beds with leaves or kale and chard, from the rain mulch to deter weeds next and wind by pushing heavy spring. wire or PVC pipe into the ground to make hoops over ◼ Cover plants with cardboard the plants. Drape with row or other material (except cover material plastic) during frost. Wait until or frost blankets which can be air warms to remove cover. found at your local gardening ◼ Continue watering new store. additions to the landscape ◼ To help prevent slugs, clean that were planted within the up their common hiding areas, last 12 months. Many plants such as weed piles, boards or die from drought during their stacked pots. first winter.

Here are a few tips to keep your garden alive and thriving through the coming months. ◼ Check weather forecast daily for frost warnings.

◼ Using low tunnels or cloches covered with frost blankets over food crops and cutting gardens may extend the growing season up to one month. ◼ You can also preserve root crops and extend harvest up to one month by removing green leaves and covering with straw, soil or mulch.

◼ In October, start cutting back perennials, leaving 3-inch stubs near the ground. These stubs will catch fallen leaves and provide insulation from the cold. ◼ Add mulch to keep root temperatures stable, and add compost to supply organic nutrients to the soil. Don’t fertilize, as this will prompt new growth at the wrong time of year.

◼ Protect winter greens such as ◼ Cover paths between vegetable beds with leaves or kale and chard, from the rain mulch to deter weeds next and wind by pushing heavy spring. wire or PVC pipe into the ground to make hoops over ◼ Cover plants with cardboard the plants. Drape with row or other material (except cover material plastic) during frost. Wait until or frost blankets which can be air warms to remove cover. found at your local gardening ◼ Continue watering new store. additions to the landscape ◼ To help prevent slugs, clean that were planted within the up their common hiding areas, last 12 months. Many plants such as weed piles, boards or die from drought during their stacked pots. first winter.

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Here are a few tips to keep your garden alive and thriving through the coming months. ◼ Check weather forecast daily for frost warnings.

◼ Using low tunnels or cloches covered with frost blankets over food crops and cutting gardens may extend the growing season up to one month. ◼ You can also preserve root crops and extend harvest up to one month by removing green leaves and covering with straw, soil or mulch.

◼ In October, start cutting back perennials, leaving 3-inch stubs near the ground. These stubs will catch fallen leaves and provide insulation from the cold. ◼ Add mulch to keep root temperatures stable, and add compost to supply organic nutrients to the soil. Don’t fertilize, as this will prompt new growth at the wrong time of year.

◼ Protect winter greens such as ◼ Cover paths between vegetable beds with leaves or kale and chard, from the rain mulch to deter weeds next and wind by pushing heavy spring. wire or PVC pipe into the ground to make hoops over ◼ Cover plants with cardboard the plants. Drape with row or other material (except cover material plastic) during frost. Wait until or frost blankets which can be air warms to remove cover. found at your local gardening ◼ Continue watering new store. additions to the landscape ◼ To help prevent slugs, clean that were planted within the up their common hiding areas, last 12 months. Many plants such as weed piles, boards or die from drought during their stacked pots. first winter.

Here are a few tips to keep your garden alive and thriving through the coming months. ◼ Check weather forecast daily for frost warnings.

◼ Using low tunnels or cloches covered with frost blankets over food crops and cutting gardens may extend the growing season up to one month. ◼ You can also preserve root crops and extend harvest up to one month by removing green leaves and covering with straw, soil or mulch.

◼ In October, start cutting back perennials, leaving 3-inch stubs near the ground. These stubs will catch fallen leaves and provide insulation from the cold. ◼ Add mulch to keep root temperatures stable, and add compost to supply organic nutrients to the soil. Don’t fertilize, as this will prompt new growth at the wrong time of year.

◼ Protect winter greens such as ◼ Cover paths between vegetable beds with leaves or kale and chard, from the rain mulch to deter weeds next and wind by pushing heavy spring. wire or PVC pipe into the ground to make hoops over ◼ Cover plants with cardboard the plants. Drape with row or other material (except cover material plastic) during frost. Wait until or frost blankets which can be air warms to remove cover. found at your local gardening ◼ Continue watering new store. additions to the landscape ◼ To help prevent slugs, clean that were planted within the up their common hiding areas, last 12 months. Many plants such as weed piles, boards or die from drought during their stacked pots. first winter.


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