We just recently had a hard freeze. I had a few pepper plants left in the garden(most I had already dug up, put into pots, and brought indoors) so I decided to just throw some plastic over them.
I have a little wire fence about 18” tall on three sides and the retaining wall on the North East side. They came through pretty good, and are drinking up the nice weather this week.
I too find that the smaller raised beds are not so prone to weeds, and with the mel’s mix as a base, so easy to pull out whatever you need to pull.
It’s great to have your own stuff at hand. Just go out and clip a little hear and there, and you’ve got great stuff to eat with no worries about E Coli etc.
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