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Extending Your Growing Season
Thursday, April 11th, 2013, St. Mary’s Anglican Church Presenter: Elizabeth Crawford Thurber
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• Easy-to-grow plants • planting instructions • quantity to buy • harvest instructions • type of feeder • growing conditions required • common pests & companion
plants
Beginner’s Guide to Buying Seeds
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Optimize Your Space through: • Right-sizing your container • Companion planting • Succession planting - Plant for cool
spring , then hot summer, then cool fall/ early winter
• Interplanting - Small alongside or under shelter of larger
• Vertical - Tomatoes, cucumbers, beans
Small Plot / Container Gardening
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• What to start indoors • Soil mixes • Humidity, Fertilizers, Light • Potting on • Hardening off • Planting out
Jump Start Your Seedlings
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NPK: Nitrogen- for growing leaves; Phosphorus- for root growth; Kalium – aka Potassium- for overall growth and flowering and seeding • Organic Fertilizers • Green Manures • Compost - to boost organic
material
Healthy Soil and Composting
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Fredericton - Zone 4b -5: May 22nd to Sept 22nd Outdoor growing season: • 4 months • Approximately 17- 20 weeks • 120-140 days
Our Growing Season
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Planting in Spring will be easy if you incorporate: • Compost • Aged manure • Shredded leaves • Lime
The Importance of Fall Prep
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Timing is Everything!
When to start, transplant, harvest & restore
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Light weight • Protection from insects, birds • Help warm the soil • Protect seedlings from wind • Help trap the moisture
Row Covers Economical & effective
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Medium Weight • Trap daytime heat – restricts light • Protect from frost – spring & fall • Remove for air circulation • Remove for pollination • Material should not rest on plants
Row Covers Economical & effective
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Heavy Weight • Restricts lighting • Extends season for heat loving
crops • Late-season protection to cool
& cold weather crops • Ongoing winter protection • Season extender for mini hoop, cold frames
Row Covers Economical & effective
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• Plant incubators • Temporary weather protectors • Gallon milk jugs, soda bottles • Plastic bowls • Water filled cloches (Wall-0-water) • Remember to pre-warm soil
Cloches & Hot Caps
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Cloches & Hot Caps
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• Inexpensive to construct • Miniature greenhouse • Spring, summer, fall
protect crops • Quickly moveable • Can be used for shade • Use ribs for row covers + plastic
Mini Hoop Tunnels 1.5 – 2 ft tall
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• 9 gauge wire sunk
into ground
• PVC pipes – ½” or ¾” slipped over Rebar
Constructing Ribs for Mini-Hoops
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Mini/Quick/Low Hoop Tunnels
• Must be vented • Watered • Compost or rotted manure added
regularly • Can string lights in them for winter • Snow removal – winter tie down
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• Plant winter crops around mid August • Theory is to allow crops to freeze • Harvest them when inside temp above freezing • Add additional covers over frame in coldest
weather • Could bury heating coil in soil or thermal
collectors like water jobs, concrete blocks • Snow must be removed • Needs soil enrichment, watering & venting
Cold Frames
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• Place weed barrier in the bottom • Top that can be raised and vented • Use non-treated wood - Hemlock • Bury in ground, use Styrofoam 2”
around outside perimeter • Locate close to wall, basement
or protected area • Good drainage & full sun • Screen when lid is raised
Wooden Cold Frames
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• Top covering – 4-6 mm large window piece of polycarbonate or rigid plastic for top
• Protects kale, carrots, leeks, bunching onions
• Brush off snow • Needs watering & venting
Straw Bale Cold Frames
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Mini Greenhouse using old car port
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Protecting Crops