Afraid of Late Spring Frost? Low-Tech Mini-Tunnels Are a Simple Solution
Are you thinking of growing a potted olive tree? Or maybe you already have one…but you’re still waiting for olives. Olive trees are tough as nails. They can take more cold than many people realize. And they’re really beautiful, too. Put these all together, and you have a great potted plant for a cold-climate garden.
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In my new book, Grow Olives Where You Think You Can't, I tell you everything you need to know to successfully grow an olive tree in a pot!
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Niki Jabbour on how to Make and Use Mini Tunnels
Less frost damage. Fewer bugs. Better growing conditions.
Less frost damage. Fewer bugs. Better growing conditions.
Mini tunnels have lots of advantages, and they're easy to make and use.
For this episode, we head to Nova Scotia to chat with vegetable gardening expert Niki Jabbour about how to make and use mini tunnels.
She’s the author of Growing Under Cover: Techniques for a More Productive, Weather-Resistant, Pest-Free Vegetable Garden and the creator of the online course How to Build and Use Mini Hoop Tunnels in the Vegetable Garden.
We talk about:
- What mini tunnels are
- Mini tunnels and weather
- Mini tunnels and pests
- Materials to make mini tunnels
- Getting an early start in the spring garden
- Turbo-charging heat loving crops with mini tunnels
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