Letters To The Editor

More Tips On Protecting Vegetables From Frost

To read the story referenced, “The Easiest (And Fastest) Ways To Protect Your Vegetables From That Dreaded Late Frost,” click here.

I’m a big fan of floating row covers myself. It’s as simple as bending sections of PVC over your beds every 3-4 foot or so, then covering with a frost protection cover and weighing the edges down with rocks. Keeps fabric off the plants, and even supports small accumulations of snow if that’s an issue for your area.

Big fan of using Agribon for the fabric. Comes in several different weights for different degrees of frost protection, sun light penetrates so it doesn’t have to be removed, and lasts several seasons if cared for. I live in zone 6 and was able to grow somewhat cold-hardy crops until the first few weeks of January. Probably would have kept growing, too, if a freakishly heavy snow didn’t collapse the fabric. I actually still have a few lettuce plants left in the garden.

Blake

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To read the story referenced, “5 Frost-Resistant Vegetables You Can Plant Super Early,” click here.

Broccoli. More than once this hardy plant has lasted through extreme cold, only finally giving up after
many days of highs in the teens.

Anonymous