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Posted by FarmI on August 5, 2008, 3:18 am
If you were Registered and logged in, you could reply and use other advanced thread options > to a late start due to insects and cold weather, so I made a last minute
> planting towards the end of June. The cold weather continued, and the
> plants are still quite small, have maybe a half dozen leaves. What are the
> chances that they will mature and set fruit? Around here (middle of the
> Wilamette Valley, Oregon), the weather cools off about the middle of
> September, sometimes as early as the end of August. Summer has barely
> started, and it's almost over :-). Should I plow them under and use the
> of them?
I sometimes (depending on the plant and my desire to harvest its produce)
extend the growing season by putting 4 bales of hay/straw round the plant
and covering it with an old window.
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