With so much cold weather lately, Hoss gives us the top tips that you need to know when it comes to protecting your crops from the freeze. Plenty of moisture in the soil, make sure you have healthy plants ahead of time are just a few tips he reviews! How to survive an Arctic Blast? Let’s Grow Together and Get Dirty!
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I took your advice and covered my onions and cabbage with pine straw and they appeared to have survived the 17 degrees low! When wet my potatoes last year they froze, I didn’t keep the water running all night though
Ice over works great on strawberry’s I keep running
Water until after sun comes up
My garlic came through fine but I think I'm going to lose my strawberries. Got to – 11 in my neck of the woods. Just cross my fingers and hope.
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Thank you for this Gregg. I was confused by choices that other "pros" made in the cold snap that did not agree with what you said here, and sometimes – they did not agree with each other!
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Covering onions at 20 degrees? Nah. Of course, I live where 20 degrees is routine in winter, so I don't expect the above-ground parts to thrive in the winter. I did have some take next to no damage, though, during -5 just before Christmas. I had covered them with a light row cover (not the expensive stuff!), then added a couple of layers of spare landscape fabric. Frozen plants don't need light, because they're not growing, and the weight does less damage than a deep freeze. The weight and stiffness of the landscape fabric also helps minimize air exchange due to the wind whipping the cover. The plants had around six inches of mulch, so where I live the growing point wasn't likely to freeze in any case, but it was nice to be able to harvest some green onions shorter after the big freeze.
It's worth mentioning that the reason that overhead spraying with water prevents freeze damage isn't simply because ice insulates. it's also because freezing releases heat–quite a lot of it, actually. The temperature won't increase, but it will resist decreasing as long as some of the water is in the liquid state. This is also part of the reason why watering before freezing temperatures helps–waterlogged soil takes longer to freeze, and until it has the area just above won't drop much below freezing.
Can I germinate large seeds like bush beans or do you recommend direct sow
When covering plants in the garden is it necessary to put hoops over rows to keep the cloth from touching the plant?