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Winter Gardens
Winter Gardening Don'ts
Even in colder zones, you can raise hardy vegetables and flowers if you’re prepared to cover plants when necessary. You can use frost blankets, bed sheets, a plastic-covered tunnel or cold frame to extend your winter gardening season. You can also grow many salad greens indoors using containers and supplemental lighting.
With outdoor winter gardens, determine ahead of time how you’ll water plants. Depending on how severe the cold is in your region, you may or may not be able to haul a hose to your winter vegetable garden or containers. If you’ll be carrying water, position your garden, if possible, to limit water-toting duties. Aim to get your winter garden crops established before frosts arrive. Actively growing, established plants withstand cold weather better, as do plants that have experienced the gradual downward shift of outdoor temperatures. Indoors, focus winter gardening efforts on houseplants that flower during cool weather. Most of these beauties aren’t difficult to grow, and they add delightful color and possibly fragrance to indoor settings. Consider winter plants like moth orchid, with flowers that last for weeks, or cyclamen, with its artfully marbled foliage and butterfly-like blooms. White or winter jasmine infuses a home with exquisite perfume, as do paperwhite narcissus bulbs, which are completely goof-proof. Even pots of rye or wheatgrass make a wonderful indoor plant that provides a pocket of greenery and a chance to practice some winter gardening.
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