1. Some plants such as Clover Crimson can be planted to act as overwintering cover crops.These plants can benefit your crops in many ways such as fixing nitrogen, attracting beneficial insects, controlling erosion, acting as a mulch etc.
2. So many easy and simple things can be done to protect crops in the winter such as planting them against a south-facing wall, putting them in raised beds, or surrounding them with straw.
3. Although Vancouver has quite a mild climate, I'm very surprised at how many plants are capable of growing through winter here
Alot of the plants that were talked about in the article are meant to be planted in in late August. It seems like everything to do with the weather and seasons is about a month late this year. Based on that fact, I'm wondering if you could plant some of those crops now and grow them successfully?
I think we'll get away with planting some a bit later this year. Everything seems to be a bit late, so with any luck we'll be able to get some plants to be big enough to survive the first frost.
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