Extend the growing season

From the garden

CUISINE & CULTURE

ELLEN PEFFLEY

Gardeners can protect tender crops like tomatoes, peppers, herbs, and flowers from a hard freeze with proper cover. Frost cloths are simple ways to extend a crop’s growing season.

Frost cloths are spun-bonded, polypropylene fabric variously called frost blankets, insulation blankets, anti- frost cloths, freeze cloths, thermal blankets, row covers, or floating row c…