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PLANT COVER x ROW COVER xx COLD FRAME & HOTBED xx GREENHOUSE xx PLANT Tips for vegetable gardeners. (1) Making a bird spooker. (2) Building a planter box for the lettuce. (3) Screening seedlings with perforated plastic plant flats. (4) Protecting a row of seedlings with nylon mesh supported by 1x1s. (5) Making a zucchini cage. (6) Growing pole beans on a patio up a wire support to form a screen, and (7) Making a cabbage mat. Vegetable garden season stretchers. A look at a variety of simple greenhouses, cloches, and cold frames which you can build or buy. PVC pipe frames and sheet plastic make an easy way to protect plants from frost. Tip: Simple A-frame garden sunscreen built from wood that folds flat for storage. Tip: Winter shelter for broad-leaved evergreens is made from burlap over a wire structure. How to convert a 2-liter plastic soda bottle into a mini-greenhouse or cover for a flower pot. Use brown-paper grocery sacks as in-ground plant containers. They provide transplants with temporary relief from competition and shelter from wind. More uses for row covers. Speed germination of corn, protect strawberries during the winter, etc. A winter shelter for plants. Easy-to-build winter planthouse protects young and half-hardy plants from expreme cold. Unlike a greenhouse, this plastic-covered shelter faces away from low winter sun to minimize solar heating. Seedling transplant protector is made from a paper milk carton. Tip suggests using plastic mesh strawberry containers as shade covers for newly transplanted seedlings. How to overwinter marginally hardy plants using polystyrene picnic coolers. Advice on using "Reemay" for hardening off seedlings. Make cloches from gallon-sized glass jugs by cutting off the bottom. Tomato cages and old pillowcases form an easily removed cozy for protecting small plants and shrubs from the cold. Tip suggests using green plastic produce baskets to shield new seedlings. How to shelter plants from winter's worst. Simple seasonal cover-ups to protect young and tender plants. Tip: Plastic milk jug, with bottom cut off, is used to protect seedlings, but may be raised up for "hardening off". A-frame shrub protector. Guard foundation plantings from rooftop snow avalanches with these simple slatted panels. Techniques for extending the growing season in spring and fall through use of cold frames, cloches, and other devices. Tip on using the top of a 2 liter or 3 liter plastic bottle as a miniature greenhouse. Create a metal arch-shaped cloche (trellis) from wire-mesh fencing. Use climbing plants to cover the arch. Then place shade-loving plants inside the arch. Tip on using clay pots (with bottoms removed) to surround and protect young vines or other plants. Tips on frost protection for plants in north central Florida. Tip suggests a large tomato cage lined with layers of newspaper as a short-term protection from cold, snow or sleet. Advice on using cloches (mini-greenhouses for individual plants) and how to adapt jars, jugs and other things as cloches. Tip on storing plant covers from plastic milk jugs with their bottoms cut off. Simple and inexpensive way to plant an outdoor garden just after the frost has left the ground. Relies on covering high ridges of soil with a canopy of clear plastic to warm the soil. That's a wrap. Techniques to help garden plants survive the winter. Tip: Use synthetic netting to form a windbreak for your garden. Temporary shade ideas for vegetables. Tip on using plastic 2-liter bottles as mini greenhouses for young plants. Salads in the snow. How to grow fresh greens in the winter by using polyester row cover, cold frames and a movable hoop house. How to build a shade frame for a garden. Est. cost: $3. Tip shows how to use cedar shingles to protect fragile seedlings from strong winds. Tip shows how to make a season-extender by draping clear plastic over garden plants. How to make versatile cages for the garden from vinyl-coated wire mesh. Can be used as a planting guide, plant support, season extender. Tip on a row cover to protect newly germinated corn from being eaten by crows. Protecting transplants with a tunnel made from wire hoops and row cover fabric. How to anchor a milk jug used as a seedling protector. Getting the jump on spring. Start your row crops earlier in the spring by covering the row with this "caterpillar-style" greenhouse made from 4-ft wide plastic film and semi-circular hoops stuck in ground to support plastic. Tips on building a "cloche" for your garden. How to build and maintain a cold frame and a tunnel cloche. Garden uses of nylon netting include insect screens, transplant container, etc. Benefits and drawbacks of the major types of row covers. Net workings. Protect summer crops from scorching sun and scavenging birds by covering them with shade netting or bird netting. Some tips. American intensive solar gardening. A description and construction details for passive solar pods and cones that are used with portable "drop frame" bases. Includes recommendations on layout and size of vegetable growing areas. Tip describes how to build solar cones for earlier starting of plants outdoors. How to make plastic tunnels to protect early crops. How to fold cone "hats" to keep frost off small plants. Tip: Protect seedlings from frost by surrounding them with a water-filled inner tube. A portable A-frame to build to protect tomatoes. Shading devices to keep heat-sensitive plants healthy all summer. How to make hot caps from large glass jugs. Tip: Use plastic cocktail glasses for hot caps. Tip: Hold down for plastic "frost protectors" made from wood or plastic pipe. Tips on using cloches as season extenders. An inexpensive and easy-to-build row cover (large tunnel cloche). Cloche frame made from willow poles and 1x2's. Tomato cages which double as tunnel cloches and compost containers. Water-filled plastic jugs protect potted plants from frost. Nylon netting protects plants from insects and intense summer sunlight. Using spunbonded floating row covers. Milkshake cups with nylon-curtain caps make multiuse cloches to protect brassicas from frost, rabbits, cutworms and other pests. Tunnel cloche is made from concrete-reinforcing wire covered with plastic sheeting. Tip: Make inexpensive cloches from plastic ice cream buckets. Tip: Colonial-style wood-and-paper cloche for protecting tender plants. Tip on using bale beds (rectangular enclosures made from bales of hay) to protect vegetables against wind and sun. Cloche system combines a plastic tent with 5-gallon containers of heat-absorbing water. How to make cloches to extend your growing season for both frost-sensitive and cool-season crops. How to make a cloche from wire fencing covered with plastic and netting. Tip describes how to make roll-up row covers. Tip describes covering brassica crops with row cover made from electrical conduit and nylon netting. Tip shows how to anchor plastic milk jugs when using them as plant covers. Tip shows how to make a portable 4'x4' dome-shaped frame that can be covered with plastic or shade cloth. Tip on making a portable cover from a frame of PVC pipe covered with screening to protect plants from hail. Plant with early season extenders. A guide to hot caps, walls o'water, grow domes, cold frames, plastic tunnels and row covers. Homemade frost protectors are made from 2-liter plastic soda bottles fastened together with hot glue. How to make a mini-greenhouse from 2.5-gal rectangular plastic jugs. Tip shares an easier way to fill water-filled plant protectors. Tip on using sheer nylon or polyester curtains as row cover. Tip on how to make anchors to hold down plant and row covers and plastic mulches. Critter-proof garden beds. Domes to keep small animals out of gardens are made from PVC pipe frames covered with poultry fencing. How to make a cold frame, a hot bed and a cloche to get your seeds started early. Units use translucent corrugated fiberglass instead of glass. Three gardening aids you can build. (1) Potting bench. (2) Lettuce shader. (3) Caterpillar cloche. How to make a shadecloth tent to cover garden plants sensitive to heat. Plastic-covered lath pyramids hold heat in seedbeds for faster germination and growth during cool weather. Ways to protect your plants if your growing season is only 60 days. Tips on how to provide temporary shade for tender transplants. A look at "floating" row covers in five materials and what they will offer the gardener. Includes tips on watering, fighting weeds and preventing heat damage. Tip: Use lattice as shade to keep cool-season leaf crops from bolting. Salad cloche. Frost protection structure to extend the growing season of leafy vegetables is built from plastic sheeting over arched sections of PCV pipe. | |||||||||
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