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Beyond backyard plants, frost and freeze can be particularly hard on crops the state’s agriculture industry relies on. Last year, an untimely mid-March freeze riddled peach-growing season with ...
Sow seeds outside in late fall or early spring. Start seeds indoors about a month before outside temperatures are expected to reach 50°F. Keep the seeds warm until they germinate, and moist but ...
Plants have evolved numerous strategies to deal with cold air, frozen soil, and in the coldest of conditions, lack of water through the winter. Brr! Here are 4 ways plants, trees survive frigid ...
Annual herbs can be planted in the garden in spring. Annual herbs are also ideal for containers. Pots can be brought indoors for the winter and placed near a sunny window for harvesting through the cold months. Return the plants outdoors in the spring when the danger of frost is past, or simply replace with fresh plants.
Forcing is the horticultural practice of bringing a cultivated plant into active growth outside of its natural growing season. Plants do not produce new growth or flowers (and hence fruit) during the winter, and many species only produce flowers or fruit for a very limited period.
Vernalization (from Latin vernus 'of the spring') is the induction of a plant's flowering process by exposure to the prolonged cold of winter, or by an artificial equivalent. After vernalization, plants have acquired the ability to flower, but they may require additional seasonal cues or weeks of growth before they will actually do so.
While the weather is warm and your green thumb may be aching, don't start your work on the garden just yet in 2024. That's because the last frost date, or the average final spring frost, is a date ...
Light doesn't control the onset of cold hardening directly, but shortening of daylight is associated with fall, and starts production of reactive oxygen species and excitation of photosystem 2, which influences low-temp signal transduction mechanisms. Plants with compromised perception of day length have compromised cold acclimation. [2]