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Gardening

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laundry_queen

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Thu Jun 5, 2014, 11:50 PM Jun 2014

Help! Frost! I'm clueless [View all]

First of all, frost in JUNE - WTF!

Okay, what do I do? I don't have any covers for all of it. My mom used to use old bedsheets but I have none. I can bring in my container plants, but obviously not the other stuff. What can handle frost? I have bulb onions, zucchini, carrots, radishes, cucumbers, lettuce, multiplier onions and swiss chard. Most of it is still really small but the bulb onions have grown 2 inches in the last 2 days so they are the tallest plant in the garden that I have (I'd say 4-5 inches). It's already dark out (thanks Environment Canada for being on the ball yet again!). ugh. You think everything should be fine in a raised bed? I have no idea if our backyard is particularly prone to frost or not, but we are lower than the row of houses behind us (we back onto a green space, then there is a hill and houses up higher on that hill). crap!

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