Comments on: When Do You Stop Gardening Outdoors

By: How to Protect Your Container Garden From Frost

How to Protect Your Container Garden From Frost — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 12:15:44 +0000

[...] only talking about the low 40s), but I hear that those of you in the rest of the country start getting pretty cold weather about this time of year. Here are some tips to protect your plants and pots from cold [...]

By: Laura Livengood Schaub (InterLeafer)

Laura Livengood Schaub (InterLeafer) — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 18:24:17 +0000

I like your polls and surveys! I don’t so much stop gardening as switch locations. My back garden on the north side of my house is delightfully breezy and shady in the summer, but cold and damp in winter. So I go hang out on my sunny, south-facing front porch! Dec-Jan are pretty indoors-y in general.

By: Louise @ Buddy Garden

Louise @ Buddy Garden — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 12:44:10 +0000

I wish I can garden all year long. We had our first frost last night and it is cold! Brrr….

By: GeorgyGirl

GeorgyGirl — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 08:17:37 +0000

I live on the South Coast of England which is fairly temperate, and I’m just about to put in the winter veggies! W00t!

By: Fern

Fern — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 06:39:42 +0000

Carrie–There are benefits to living somewhere with a serious winter. Lots of bulbs need that kind of cold. For example, tulips will only grow in Southern California if you trick them into thinking they had a winter by leaving them in a fridge all winter long.

By: Suz Lipman

Suz Lipman — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 23:32:34 +0000

My northern CA deck is pretty dormant in January and February. I might have color through late November (and still get some tulips or other bulbs in). And then in March, I can put out seedlings if it’s warm enough.

(And, as for New York, one of my best balcony gardens ever was off my east-facing Manhattan apartment. There, I stopped growing anything in October.)

By: Prue

Prue — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 23:18:53 +0000

The joys of living in Southern Australia, can always grow things on the balcony.

By: Fern

Fern — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 22:24:10 +0000

Jenny–What do you end up growing in those months? Seeds?

By: Fern

Fern — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 22:21:27 +0000

Kimberly–Yes, a big chunk of LOTB readers live in CA, but I also have a lot of readers in Oregon, Washington, Texas, Florida, Illinois, New York, and Australia. Not sure what it is about those areas? Maybe lots of people living in apartments and condos?

By: Carrie

Carrie — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 22:12:49 +0000

This is my first year gardening. I live in western Montana and we had an unseasonably early cold snap a couple of weeks ago that killed everything off. I am still gardening, though…. planting bulbs for spring.