Extendable Garden Shears

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

I have an awesome fall project for all my gardening friends that will enable you to have a full salad bowl through most of winter: a quick and easy cold frame. Step 7 Plant your seeds.

Winter is also a great time for reflection. Relax That said, winter is a welcome time to relax and recuperate. Depending on your climate and your greenhouse situation , you might still have a handful of active plantings throughout winter.

Ours blocks 65% of the light, perfect for greenhouse and general plant protection. UV stabilized material lasts up to 10 years. The edges are finished securely and fitted with metal grommets in each corner and every 12 inches.

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

These dome-shaped greenhouses are roomy enough for large and climbing plants. The UV stabilized PVC cover features a rugged, zippered door and adjustable top vents for air circulation.

Complete instructions included. No additional information available Overall Rating:. Use 1/2 or 3/4 inch poly pipe cut to 5-12 foot lengths. The benefits of the Garden Clip System are: start your seedlings earlier, add extra warmth for heat-loving plants,...

This dramatic increase results from the film reflecting far-red light up into the plant. This material, a thin plastic film, performs like black mulch, warming the soil and retaining moisture, but there is one important difference.

This polypropylene fabric allows 85% light transmission. 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.

Within a week it can warm your soil temperature 7 degrees or more while reducing surface evaporation to conserve water. When you're ready to set out your transplants, cut an X in the fabric where you want to plant and fold back the corners to expose the...

Seedlings are then transplanted into the garden four to six weeks later. Mulch plants with a layer of straw or shredded leaves to limit weed pressure and maintain soil moisture levels.

Instead of a fall crop being planted at soil-level and then covered by a protective structure, it's planted deep in the ground, where it's protected by the still-warm soil instead.

This might require opening up your hoop house to allow heat to escape or even uncovering certain crops. Winter gardening, in other words, requires slightly more improvisation and adaptability.

There does not need to be any light available to the plants. This is probably the easiest ways to overwinter artichokes, and it doesn't require much room. Occasionally, an artichoke plant will send up a flower stalk during its first year, but this doesn't...

Selecting extra cold-tolerant radish varieties is helpful when using this technique. They absorb the sun's heat throughout the day and use it to insulate the plants housed inside during chilly nights.

Lash it to each of the arches with a pair of crossed zip ties, making sure the center support pole is lashed in as well. The third bracket goes between the two, at the center of the long side of the bed.

Heat-loving plants rejoice! Designed to warm up the growing environment for heat-loving crops like melons, eggplants, peppers, etc. Gro-Therm is better than floating row covers for crops that need high light intensity and warmth.

The framing you choose can be wood, plastic, or metal. Tufflite can be held securely to the frame with the ''Garden Clip System''. The sizes of Tufflite offered are for making different sized tunnels.

If you live somewhere in USDA hardiness zones 5, 6 or 7 and you want a bigger, better cucumber harvest, sometime during the first two weeks of July is an excellent time to plant more cucumbers.

The film will begin to decompose between 50-60 days and will be 95% biodegraded within 90 days, depending on soil composition. While regular polyethylene-based plastics can take over 100 years to degrade and never be composted, Garden Bio-Film returns...

Allows 50% light transmission. Cover plants before the frost comes, and uncover during the day when temperatures rise above 32 °F. Durable enough for multiple-season use. Porous to air and water and UV stabilized so it won't deteriorate quickly in sunlight.

It allows 90-93% light transmission without heat build up and is UV stabilized so it won't deteriorate quickly. This lightweight fabric provides an effective screen to reduce damage from flea beetles, thrips, aphids, whiteflies, striped cucumber beetles,...

There are several ways to do this. This marks the end of their productive period as the foliage turns bitter when the flowers arrive. When the long days and warm nights of summer arrive, many leafy greens and lettuces are triggered into producing flowers...

You can also put the plant into a large, black plastic trash bag sealed with a twist tie for 14 hours each day. Don't trash your poinsettias after the holidays—keep them growing both indoors and out.

Companion Plant You can also succession plant for late season harvests by adding a few of these crops in between your existing warm-season veggies. Wherever there's a bare spot in the garden, you can plant a late-season crop for autumn harvest.

Do not allow the soil to dry out, but make sure it's well drained and no standing water is allowed to sit in the container. Place the pot in a sunny windowsill or under grow lights , but do not allow it to sit in direct sun.

Grow Cover Crops “You can help to improve the organic matter in your soil, and if you're unfortunate enough to have weeds in there, you can help deal with those,” Dawling says.