Tips and tricks for short growing season

I'm looking for some tips for short growing seasons.

For sunflower, the stalk can be cut earlier and then dried indoor. This will ensure a good harvest and the seeds will continue growing even if the pant is cut. The same would work with tomatoes, although, I tried it and it did a mess indoor. I wouldn't recommend if there isn't a good spot to place them easily.

I was wondering if the same would be possible for peas?

I've managed to get peas that are quicker to grow and have plenty of time to dry on the plant. But what if I happen to plant peas that takes to long to dry for my season? Can I cut the plant and bring it indoor before the frost?

Any other tip is welcome

I'm not dure wich kind of tips you need ? For the peas, i always finish the drying stage indoor when i make seeds, so growing more dry peas for food i would do the same. Faba bean (gourgane) are frost tolerent.

In short my tips would be to grow things frost resistant. Most root vegetable, peas and faba bean. Building some sun trap, augment my soil life who produce little more heat in return.

New things i learn in my pdc in val d'espoir this year was to learn from the fog, since the early autumn frost wave follow the same path. So planting or building stuff who deviate the fog and the frost passing on my land. I learned also that some tree around the garden kind of protect the soil around it by is thermal mass and is humidity. i think it was between 20-50 feet around.

Raphaël Blais wrote:I'm not dure wich kind of tips you need ? For the peas, i always finish the drying stage indoor when i make seeds, so growing more dry peas for food i would do the same. Faba bean (gourgane) are frost tolerent.

In short my tips would be to grow things frost resistant. Most root vegetable, peas and faba bean. Building some sun trap, augment my soil life who produce little more heat in return.

New things i learn in my pdc in val d'espoir this year was to learn from the fog, since the early autumn frost wave follow the same path. So planting or building stuff who deviate the fog and the frost passing on my land. I learned also that some tree around the garden kind of protect the soil around it by is thermal mass and is humidity. i think it was between 20-50 feet around.

I think I'm gonna try making suntrap with [growing on straw bale technique](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWVhG4jSGHI). Using the straw bale at the back

Cool! hope we see some picture of your work! New thing i have learn too it was that the most heat was on the south west of a building or of a passive heat storage wall.

I use neighboors, community garden and my local market gardener to grow some things more difficult on my homestead.

Some folks try to grow cold hardy plants.

Other folks grow plant varieties that mature quickly.

Then there are folks that use Cold Frames, Hoop Houses, Greenhouses, Row Covers, and Cloches.

What I usually do is start plants indoors and then transplant them after the last frost date.