Extendable Garden Pruners

We have sold Reemay for close to 30 years, and its reputation and name recognition are well known to home gardeners. Provides frost protection down to 30°F. Weighing in at a very light 0.6 ounce per square yard, this polyester fabric allows 75% light...

Step 1 Select a site for your winter garden. More fall gardening tips from HobbyFarms.com: 4 Tips to Keep Your Garden Producing Into Fall 18 Vegetables for Your Autumn Garden 6 Winter Ground Covers You Never Thought to Grow 3 Autumn Chores for a Healthy...

Sharpening blades during the winter can save you valuable time come spring, when new growth catches you by surprise. If you have finished compost, spread a layer of it under the straw so it will be ready for you to plant come springtime.

Whether protecting your greenhouse, hoop row covers, or shading a patio area, shade cloth is a very useful product. Ours blocks 65% of the light, perfect for greenhouse and general plant protection.

Use this superb all-purpose mulch for crops such as melons, eggplant, squash, and cucumbers. The great innovation in film mulches. Brown mulch provides more effective weed control than green mulch and warms the soil better than black mulch.

Great for season extending or overwintering tender cultivars. The UV stabilized PVC cover features a rugged, zippered door and adjustable top vents for air circulation. The patented design allows the unique curved surface to always align at 90° to the...

The benefits of the Garden Clip System are: start your seedlings earlier, add extra warmth for heat-loving plants, provide temporary shade in hot months, extend your harvest well into fall or even garden year-round, and keep birds from your berries.

No additional information available Overall Rating:. Increases tomato yields! Agricultural plastics technology has been brought to a new level by the US Department of Agriculture and Clemson University with the development of a reflecting red mulch film...

At 0.6 ounce per square yard, Grow Guard 20 is less abrasive to young plants than Reemay. A single layer provides frost protection down to 27°F if there is no breeze. This polypropylene fabric allows 85% light transmission.

Just lay it over your prepared beds and hold it in place by burying the edges with dirt, or by using fabric staples. Within a week it can warm your soil temperature 7 degrees or more while reducing surface evaporation to conserve water.

In fact, some gardeners can harvest fresh shoots from the plants all winter long. Good choices include Bonarda, Mendocino, Santee, Early Purple Sprouting and Rioja. They'll begin to produce more shoots and will have their heaviest production the year...

Simply add more compost to the bottom when planting time arrives and sow a new crop. Step 7: Mark Or Fence The Site Well To keep kids, animals and anything else from accidentally falling into the trench, fence it in or post clear signs warning of the...

Some are warmer than others, and some just have extremely warm spells. Heat Lastly, not all winters are cold. If you time your harvest around the weather and not the calendar, however, you can harvest on days of the week where everything is thawed.

Then, move the plants indoors and water them every four to six weeks until spring's arrival. Artichoke plants are susceptible to freezing. There are three ways of overwintering artichokes in the north.

If night-time temperatures dip much below freezing, bring the container inside for the night. On very warm days, remove the cloche completely to keep the plants from bolting due to the increased heat inside the cloche.

Make sure the bracket is about two inches above the ground. Hammer one end of the piece of EMT conduit pipe into the ground until the top of the pipe sits at the high point of the arch.

Especially good in northern gardens and for very early plantings. Gro-Therm is better than floating row covers for crops that need high light intensity and warmth. Gardeners can expect daytime temperatures under this film to be almost 10 degrees higher...

Cut ends of pipe at an angle with a hacksaw for easy soil penetration. The framing you choose can be wood, plastic, or metal. We use a tunnel frame made from 1/2 or 3/4 inch PVC or black poly pipe.

Good choices include Raider, Straight Eight and Pickle Bush. It's a great way to fill garden space vacated by earlier crops, and you can even grow the vines up a trellis or fence if you'd like.

The film will begin to decompose between 50-60 days and will be 95% biodegraded within 90 days, depending on soil composition. Finally, a 100% biodegradable and 100% compostable mulching film! Garden Bio-Film is made from cornstarch and other earth friendly...

Porous to air and water and UV stabilized so it won't deteriorate quickly in sunlight. Works like a warm winter coat protecting plants down to 24-26 °F. Cover plants before the frost comes, and uncover during the day when temperatures rise above 32 °F.

No additional information available Overall Rating:. Keep unwanted insects out. This lightweight fabric provides an effective screen to reduce damage from flea beetles, thrips, aphids, whiteflies, striped cucumber beetles, and other insects that are virus...

For many farmers and gardeners the true indicator of summer's arrival is the bolting of their cool-season greens. But, what if you could delay bolting in these plants and extend your harvest for a few more weeks?

Do not allow it to completely dry out. You must do this before the nighttime temperatures drop below 50 degrees F. In early July, prune the plant again, removing about a third of the plant's height.

No, I'm not talking about tomatoes and peppers—they should have been planted many weeks ago. Now's the time to succession plant your late-season crops so you can fill you fridge with fresh vegetables well into fall.

This is known as sexual propagation. It's a worthwhile project that's easy to do as well as fun. A succulent is a plant with fleshy, water-filled leaves. Cacti are a type of succulent, but there are many succulents that are not cacti.

Install Cooler Plastics yooperann /Flickr Different greenhouse plastics diffuse light in different ways. Grow Warm-Weather Vegetables Dawling goes for crops they'd like to have earlier—tomatoes, peppers, etc.—for a first planting in the spring and...