Preparing For Frost Flashcards
You can help your tomatoes by _ as weather cools
Picking off all the late blossoms
If you _ the plant will put all of its energy into tomatoes already on the vine (when weather cools)
Cut off all new shoots
Cover tomatoes, melons, squash, peppers when weather threatens to hit _ or below
32f
If first frost sneaks up on you
Give plants gentle, thorough rinse with hose before sun hits
Keep salad greens producing longer
By covering them from east with wood slats (extend night’s darkness)
Cover crop protects garden soil from
Winter erosion
Cover crop becomes green manure when you
Plow it under in the spring
Good cover crop to plant in September
Annual rye
You can sow annual rye in (2)
Empty spots
Between rows still standing
Turn rye over in spring so
As roots decay, they aerate and create humus
Harvest green tomatoes when
Frost threatens
Tomatoes ripen much faster at _ degree range
65-70
When to harvest sunflowers
When birds start pecking them
Pull garlic plants when
Tops begin to dry
After pulling garlic plants
Let finish curling in a dry spot
Garlic storage spot
Dark and cool
To store winter squash it must be
Fully ripened
To fully ripen winter squash
Leave on vine until winter frost threatens
Pick winter squash with a 2 inch
Stem
Cure winter squash for a week at _ temp range
70-80f
When to break off lower leaves of Brussels sprouts
September
Brussels sprout plant needs top
Leaves
Brussels sprouts taste best after
First fall frost has touched them
As harvesting Brussels
Remove accompanying leaves with each head
When winter stops Brussels growth
Uproot and hang in garage to allow to ripen
