6 Tips to Prepare Your Garden for Your First Frost

[@54cal54]

Already had killing frosts the garden is done, ready to till, plant garlic have a beer and call it a year. Thank you Rick!

[@StoneyAcresGardening]

Yeah this is a little late for us, we are usually closer to the 5th.

[@tracelee7332]

I urge everyone to do whatever they can to save their garden from frost/snow

[@StoneyAcresGardening]

I agree, but there comes a time where you just need to give in to the cold weather and switch over to those cool season crops.

[@tracelee7332]

@@StoneyAcresGardening Very true ❤️ Do you get snow where you are located?

[@StoneyAcresGardening]

@tracelee7332 yes, we actually have a chance of rain mixed with snow on Friday.

[@tracelee7332]

@@StoneyAcresGardening Do winter crops survive snow? I'm in Australia so I'm curious. My winters are mild where I am...

[@StoneyAcresGardening]

@tracelee7332 in most areas you need a hoop house or cold frame to have winter harvests.

[@sheliaheverin8822]

I love growing sprouts in my mason jar. Reminds me I need to start another batch.

[@StoneyAcresGardening]

Yeah, I'm starting some today along with a couple of trays of Microgreens.

[@gwen6518]

I'm growing a quick snack cucumber in my counter top grow station so I can have some fresh veggies this winter.

[@StoneyAcresGardening]

I'd love to hear how it goes! We are going to experiment with some cherry tomatoes this year.

[@nikkitobin8356]

Awesome

[@Seeing-Being]

In MN, we hv had 2 freezy a.m. I hv 2-L bttls with clay trays to put short & sweet carrots in window sill. Green onions too. Hv fun growing 😊 Everyone

[@jasonhaudenshield5220]

I'm skipping the frost and have a freeze warning. Early Wednesday morning

[@StoneyAcresGardening]

Yeah, I feel like we are going to go from August Temps, skip fall altogether and land right smack in the middle of winter in 3 day!

[@cynthiafisher9907]

I spent the afternoon harvesting all the rest of my tomatoes and peppers. It’s supposed to get down to 33F Friday morning.

[@StoneyAcresGardening]

We got our peppers and beans harvested tonight. I'm hoping to tackle the tomatoes tomorrow.

[@cynthiafisher9907]

@@StoneyAcresGardening I also got my Granny Smith apples harvested, doing the beans tomorrow!

[@dbellissimo2662]

Can you give us a run down on storing and prep for tropical plants or veg plants that will be going in the plastic lined greenhouse.And how to water and ventilation tips❤

[@michellemiller3520]

I'm thinking of doing a window well root cellar that you explained on your channel 7 years ago. Do you still do this to store potatoes? Are there any updates you do since creating this post? Thank you, Rick! I appreciate what I have learned from you since moving to Zone 6 three years ago.

[@helenmcclellan452]

How often do you water your veggies and perrenial flowers during the winter, or do you leave the watering of the flowers and veggies to nature?

[@StoneyAcresGardening]

I leave it up to nature.

[@richardk5246]

Too late for where I live.

[@StoneyAcresGardening]

This is actually pretty late in the year for us to have not had frost already.

[@elikerr785]

I'm in about the same place... I have a beautiful bed of pole beans still growing, as well as several zucchini with a bunch of healthy fruit but they're only a couple inches... We're gonna have "possible" frost, min temp of 35* for about an hour the next couple nights... but then it'll be back to 75/55. Should I harvest all my immature beans, zukes, cherry tomatoes and peppers, or hope they make it through ok? What temps and for how long is it pretty much guaranteed warm weather vegetables will be lost? I've harvested everything I was ripening, I'm not sure if I should risk the beans and zukes or harvest them prematurely... I'll have a few weeks of great weather after this...

[@StoneyAcresGardening]

Do you have anything to cover them with? Row covers, hoops? That would help, but it's pretty hit and miss this time of year.

[@elikerr785]

@@StoneyAcresGardening I don't. I considered it all year but decided I would just learn the hard way... And I knew planting zukes, beans, etc late in the summer would be a gamble. But, it looks like there will be minimal frost (if any) but the cold snap has already done some damage. I'm just quite pleased with the second round of warm season crops and was hoping for a little more time. I basically just added some extra straw mulch and have a fan blowing across the top of the garden hoping to create a temporary nano-climate. Thanks for the reply!