Outdoor Grows

How To Winterize A Garden - Step By Step Guide

Learning how to winterize a garden, whether you're growing veggies, flowers, or fruits, will protect your plants between seasons.

This is an essential end-of-season task each fall, so you can pick up right back where you started as spring rolls around.

If you do this right, you're setting yourself up for a more successful following season than had you just let your plants fend for themselves when the cold starts coming.

When you’re learning how to winterize your garden, preparation and good planning are key.

It may help to have a checklist of “to-do’s” on hand so that you don’t find yourself falling behind as the snow begins to fly. 

Whether you’re interested in learning how to winterize a vegetable garden or you’d like to learn more about winterizing raised garden beds, this article will tell you everything you need to know. 

How To Protect Your Outdoor Grow From Heat, Wind, Rain, & More

If you are growing outdoors, you need to be prepared and know how to protect your outdoor grow from heat, wind, rain, and other stressors that will undoubtedly show up at some point.

One of the biggest benefits of indoor growing is that you have complete control over the environment. You set up the perfect temperatures, air flow, and you’ll never have to worry about rain or hail.

But when you grow in the great outdoors, you’ll battle all these things. Sometimes, you’ll get lucky and won’t have much issue. Other seasons, you may experience all of these in the same month, depending on your climate.

These factors can not only slow growth and affect yield. Sometimes, they can destroy your entire crop, which can be incredibly frustrating later in the year when you’ve invested time and energy into your grow.

Let’s start by describing how to protect your outdoor grow from one of the most common issues you’ll experience: heat.

Outdoor Growing: How To Grow Big Plants In Your Backyard

Outdoor growing presents many opportunities and challenges that wouldn’t exist with indoor growing.

Everyone should try to grow flower in their backyard at some point, because its the purest form of gardening there is.

From huge yields to low costs, the reasons to grow plants outdoors are plentiful!

We’ll cover them in-depth, along with some of the less enjoyable things that accompany outdoor growing.

Then, we’ll teach you everything you need to know so you can get your plants started outside!

How To Protect Plants From Frost

As winter approaches, you are likely wondering how to protect plants from frost. During these colder months, lots of gardeners either call it quits until spring time or bring their plants indoors.

Indoor growing is a great way to keep the garden going throughout winter, especially when using a grow tent and grow light. But, not everyone has the space for an indoor grow. But, all is not lost!

There are plenty of vegetables and plants you can grow during these tough, winter months. And, we have some tips on protecting your plants from frost. This winter, give some of these a try and let us know how it went!