Friday, September 9, 2011

Extending the Gardening Season

Whether you live in New England, where the frost-free vegetable growing season is under 200 days long, or in Southern California, where it's over 300 days long, sometimes the season seems just too short.

Cover early and late season plantings with fabric row covers.  Start and end the gardening season with cold-hardy vegetables that tolerate frost, such as peas, lettuce, cole crops, beets and chard.  Try growing some plants, such as cold-tender herbs and dwarf fruit trees, in containers that you can move-in and outdoors as weather permits.  Click here to read more:

 

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