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Hello everyone, I'm David Rodriquez, Extension Horticulturist with Texas Agrilife Extension
Service. On behalf of Expert Village, we're going to show you some cool season vegetables
that you can plant in late winter so you can have some real nice delicious spring harvest.
Many people have the question, what do I do since I'm planting a lot of these vegetables
late in the winter, if we have them in usually hard or long freeze or cold spell. Well, mulch
always works. This is simple hay, alphalfa hay, and there are many forms of mulch that
you can use. Mulches, organic mulches, help insulate the soil to hold the moisture as
well as levitate the amount of temperature there so it kind of hardens off the root system.
If for some reason it gets extremely cold for any long period of time watering is very,
very crucial a day or two before an expected hard and long freeze. Water real good, minimize
the amount of water on the foliage, and get yourself an old blanket, some winter protection
blanket, anything like that just to kind of give it some degrees of protection. But minimize
the weight of that particular blanket on top of the plants themselves.