[Augie]

After a fairly mild week we are enjoying a nice snow shower this morning here in Central Missouri. It’s been quite a dry winter up until now. We’ve only had one good rain event prior to this snowfall.

Collards and kale are showing a bit of frostbite after the bitter cold weather that we had over New Years weekend. I don’t have the necessary materials to make proper row covers so the plants just have to tough it out.

I’d like to have a low tunnel out there, but those things are a bit of nuisance to put up up and take down every year. I’m thinking that a good compromise might be to cover the green bean arbor with visqueen and plant my fall greens under that.

[Pete from Shawnee Mission]

I have a small garden set up. . Row covers are a pain, but in order to protect any cabbage/broccoli plants from cabbage moths I need to keep them covered. (Nothing worse than looper riddled galleries all filled with their green poop eaten into cabbage!)

or

I have 2' X 6' planting frames but Instead of using hoops I use 3 or 4' long sections of 4"x4" Rabbit fencing fir my hoops. Don't have to worry about keeping it taught all the time.

https://www.johnnyseeds.com/search/?q=row+covers&lang=en_US

https://www.groworganic.com/pages/visit-our-store-nursery
Sources for row covers.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Half inch of rain then, snow started at about 8:30 this morning. Greetings from the big Lake...