Vegetable Gardening Tips, Advice and FAQ's

Articles in the Extending Your Growing Season category

Winter Growing of Vegetables in Cold Climates – Practical or Necessary?
The following exchange regarding growing during the winter vs extending your growing season with the Mittleider Method and storing your bounty for use during the winter is ins...

Last Modified: 2007-10-25

Number of views: 2095

Winterizing a Garden in February?
Q. We just moved into this house in late December. The previous owner has a vegtable garden full of tomatoes, cucumber, cabbage, potatoes, pumpkin, red and green p...

Last Modified: 2007-02-03

Number of views: 1987

How To Save Crops From Freezing In Your Garden
Q. I have a farm in Afghanistan, which is about 30,000 squaremetres, in which mainly grapes are grown. In the cold winter thegrape vines are buried under the ground because of...

Last Modified: 2006-09-15

Number of views: 3891

Invite Spring Early - Grow in Your Basement
Winter's the time to get ready to grow your own seedlings! It's not really difficult, and can extend your growing season by many weeks. For example, by planting ...

Last Modified: 2006-09-15

Number of views: 5115

Extending Your Growing Season - Both Spring & Fall
Today I want to assist many of you who are wondering how to extend your growing season for a few more weeks. For some it may be too late, as in high elevations like Ra...

Last Modified: 2006-09-04

Number of views: 2362

Building Mini-Greenhouses from PVC Pipe
I will give instructions for building a jig and then making PVC arches for 18"-wide boxes or beds.Materials needed:11 - 5' lengths of 1/2" Schedule 40...

Last Modified: 2005-04-20

Number of views: 3084

Start Earlier in the Spring - Grow Later in the Fall
Extending your growing season Today I want to assist many of you who are wondering how to extend your growing season for a few more weeks. For some it may be too late, as...

Last Modified: 2005-04-20

Number of views: 3750

Extend Growing Season 6 weeks both Spring and Fall
All who are interested in extending your growing season - particularly with vertical plants - may want to save the following description of covered T-Frames. You can pla...

Last Modified: 2005-02-13

Number of views: 3534

Growing Tomatoes, etc. in Early Spring - "Poor Man's Hydroponics"
Q. I've heard about so many ways to grow tomato and other tender plants early - from using Wall-O-Water's to taking the bottom out of wastebaskets, and they all seem t...

Last Modified: 2005-02-05

Number of views: 2763

Heat Source(s) for Mini-Greenhouses
Q. In your answer on 'extending your growing season' you mention using a small heat source for the 'mini greenhouses'. What heat source would you recommand and how i...

Last Modified: 2004-12-10

Number of views: 2764

Categories