Protect your garden crops from high winds and storm damage
September 3rd, 2010
Cooperative Extension educator and garden specialist Barbara Murphy from the Oxford County advises home gardeners to protect garden crops from high winds and storm damage.
“I would say harvest, harvest, harvest,” Murphy says. “Things that are ripe or near ripe, if they get a lot of rain, they may burst.”
“No plants are going to recover if they get knocked down this late in the season,” she says.
Gardeners can reinforce tomatoes, pole beans, and other vines, in addition to trellises. “The sky’s the limit as to how much you want to do,” Murphy says. “But you can always hedge your bets and harvest.”
Young cucumbers, summer squash, and beans are tender, and, Murphy adds, early picking may allow plants to flower again and produce a second crop in this late summer weather.
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