A garden cloche to protect frost-sensitive plants is much easier to build and far less expensive than a greenhouse. Photo courtesy of Oregon State University Extension Service.
We grow our tomatoes in cloches, so on cold nights we close up each cloche and we’re able to keep our plants several degrees warmer. You can get
directions for how to build one from Oregon State University extension service.
If they are mature enough, green tomatoes can be ripened indoors. Photo by Judy Scott, OSU Extension Service.
If the overnight lows get down into the mid-20s, even a cloche is not going to save tomatoes. But you can pick them green and successfully ripen them indoors.
Learn how. We do this every year and make sauce or salsa in the fall to enjoy all winter.
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