Lawn
Home
Garden
lawn care articles home & patio articles gardening articles
 
Late Summer Flowers Green Lawn Care Water Conservation Composting Lawn Tools Drought Stress Fall Landscaping
Green Landscaping Water the Lawn Pruning Tow & Lawn Rollers Grass Types (p1) Zen Landscaping Storm Water Runoff
Aerating the Lawn Lawn Spreaders Grass Types (p2) Prairie Garden Cisterns & Rain Barrels Plant Pruning Lawn Mowers
Lawn Mowing Tips Preseason Pruning Arbor Day Tree Pruning Container Landscaping Lawn Care Niwaki Cloud Pruning
the Garden Room Tree Planting Re-Landscaping Espalier Pruning

lawn care articles home & patio articles gardening articles
 
Foyer Gardens Bird Houses Firepits & Chimineas Desktop Zen Gardens Patio Shade Bonsai Gardening Norfolk Island Pine
Zen Kitchen Butterfly Watching Outdoor Zen Bonsai Trees Bamboo Zen Gardens Pet Travel
Zen of a Firepot Tis the Season Feng Shui Indoor Zen Attracting Birds Mini Zen Gardens Container Trees
Wind Chill The Christmas Cactus Bonsai Pruning Japanese Snow Garden Zen

lawn care articles home & patio articles gardening articles
 
Container Basics Greenhouses pt 1 Cabbage & Lettuce What is Fertilizer? Drought Gardening Container Gardening Greenhouse Gardening
Potato Gardening Fertilizers & Compost Plant Rotation Container Plants Greenhouse in Summer Chili Peppers Organic Fertilizers
Tomato Seeds Container Planters Greenhouse Extra Begonias Winterizing Outdoors Seed Germination Patio Gardening
Greenhouse Heating Aloe Vera Plant Indoor Gardening Garden Seeds Plant Zone Map Pollinators Garlic
Gardening Zen Garden Planning Fruit Trees Greenhouse Cleaning Cold Frames Raised Garden Beds Vertical Gardens
Cottage Gardens Greenhouse Living Garden Seedlings Organic Fertilizers (2) Keyhole Gardens Polar Vortex Garden Hydroponic Gardening

A flower sitting with a group of dark rocks, bamboo, grass and the LawnZenGarden logo. A flower sitting with a group of dark rocks, bamboo, grass and the LawnZenGarden logo.

HOMEGardening Articles

POLAR VORTEX GARDENING
by Carole Schwalm A cardinal bracing itself against the wind and snow.

Welcome to climate change/polar vortex/“who knows what spring may bring” gardening. Does it sound like a battle? That it is. Should spring ever come, the extreme snow will melt, but plants can’t be set out until the ground is not mushy anymore. Planting is delayed. Harvest is delayed, providing there isn’t a drought or snow and freezing in July.

A greenhouse creates your own little controlled environment. Placing plants in containers and positioning them up off of the floor – add mulch and blanket because, in a cold snap, soil in containers is more susceptible to freezing solid.

Do your research planting early in the greenhouse or cold frame, checking out the coldest temperatures plants can handle and protect even more if necessary.

A close-up photograph of a tree branch tip with an accumulation of snow. Can you Grow Vegetables all Year Long?

Yes you can grow crops all year round, vortex and all, using the sun’s heat to regulate temperatures. In many areas of the United States, the sun’s appearance in winter is rare (as our Ohio correspondants can attest), as you research cold tolerance, look up light requirements. Not to worry, like ‘there’s an app for that’ there are grow lights for that too.

Here's to happily picking tomatoes in November.



Share your polar vortex gardening experiences or if you'd like more information.