Serious Winter Weather Coming In

[The Useful Gardener]

Heads up, Useful Gardening Gang!

Looks like serious winter weather is coming in later this week. Now
is the time to add mulch or hay around tender plants and get those row
covers over spinach, greens and lettuce you are hoping to "winter
through" in outdoor beds. So far our very wet conditions have kept
hard freezes away and we've had a long, long fall.(Local weather
reports that Norfolk area got over a foot of rain in November!) Take
any harvests of those things you suspect will not do well in a hard
freeze.... this one could do them in. With luck, it'll bring a bit of
snow - Mother Nature's natural plant insulation - but it doesn't look
likely now. Even so, a continual rain will probably protect most of
the hardier veggies.

Check in to let us know how your garden is doing!
I was hoping that I could hang onto the best broccoli crop I've ever
raised for some more holiday feasts (thanks to the continual cool,
rainy weather) but it's starting to turn into flowers (so pretty) and
I'm going to have to harvest what I can asap. Lettuce is still
looking wonderful but we'll be cutting 90% of it before this next cold
snap. I'm not worried about the kale, collards, cabbage and such. They
can take much worse.

Good luck!
Sybil