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Greens, protected!

12 Oct 201818 May 2016 by Mike (tfb)
Brassica greens under row cover

Floating row cover, weighed down and made semi-transparent by water, is all that stands between fine young brassica greens and the scourge of the flea beetle. The cover is placed right after seeding, weighed down by rocks every 12.5′ feet, … Read the rest

Categories Fieldwork, Pests & Disease, Seed starting, Tools, Veggies Tags brassicas, flea beetle, frost protection, greens, row cover Leave a comment

Brrrr… Peppers under wraps

22 May 202026 May 2013 by Mike (tfb)

Not the happiest campers after three days and nights of frost protection, peppers and eggplant have one day and two nights more under row cover, if the forecast is to be believed. But the 15-day forecast a week ago was … Read the rest

Categories Fieldwork, Tools, Veggies, Weather Tags eggplant, frost, frost protection, peppers, row cover, Spring 10 Comments

Patchy frost

5 Oct 2011 by Mike (tfb)
Eggplant under row cover

[Fri, Sep 16, 2011] First frost wasn’t too bad at all, a patchy frost that hit the field lightly, and in some areas, hardly at all. Still, the row cover, over some beans, peppers, eggplant, and a couple of beds … Read the rest

Categories Fieldwork, Tools, Veggies, Weather Tags eggplant, frost, frost protection, row cover, Summer 1 Comment

Frost protection time again

24 Sep 201115 Sep 2011 by Mike (tfb)
Row cover frost protection

The frost-warning forecast from a couple of days ago, for 1°C (34°C), moved up a day to tonight. so there’s row cover all over the field. Some of it was floated out against the possibility of frost, the rest, as … Read the rest

Categories Fieldwork, Tools, Veggies Tags beans, carrot, deer, eggplant, frost protection, peppers, pumpkins, row cover, Summer, summer squash, tomato, winter squash 3 Comments

Frost protection

30 Aug 200814 Oct 2007 by Mike (tfb)

With last night’s forecast calling for -3°C, I finally figured a little floating row cover frost protection might be a good idea. In fact, though, with the cloudy, windy, wet conditions right through to Saturday evening, a solid freeze didn’t … Read the rest

Categories Fieldwork, Tools, Veggies, Weather Tags Autumn, frost protection, peppers, row cover 4 Comments
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