Ping for frost freeze warning! See metmom’s post above #180.
I am in that frost/freeze warning tonight and yesterday, sitting among my fresh young sprouts, I had a thought.
I will of course be resorting to sheets and newspaper and such to cover everything, but the potato patch is taxing my resources on that score.
I’m about to go to the store to buy garbage bags, the black ones for the big cans.
I’m going to buy the ones that come on a roll, with perforations between the bags. Presto! Customizable black covers for my tater rows. Rocks here and there will hold them in place and tomorrow I’ll gather them back up and store them for their normal use.
Will plastic do these young sprouts (only about four inches for the big ones) any harm over the course of twelve hours?
Great Thread with Great Info..
here in WNC I’ve had great luck this year with an abundance of rain.. except Okra.. greenhouse the plants and transplant where they die in 2-3 days.. figured too wet so made some oversize hills with sand mixed in.. still not great..
any ideas on okra at +3000 feet and wet ?
I save old, ratty blankets and mattress pads to use for this.
I store them in the barn and they’re easy to use and don’t blow away like plastic.
Thanks for the ping.
Sorry for leaving the big northern door open again. ;-)
Metmom, aren’t blankets and mattress pads too heavy to lay over the plants?
A few years ago I left some flats of annuals in our garage. It was late May when we were hit with a heavy frost. So heavy it froze the plants in the garage.
I will bring the flats inside the house tonight. I don't trust the garage.
Hey, if the plants can’t take it, screw ‘em, the wimps. ;’)
I’m going to be OK. Lows in the high 40’s, and today was a very nice day, but our Spring, all in all, has been lagging...or just NORMAL for a change. :)
I hope we DO get some rain tonight into tomorrow...then I don’t have to water my garden by hand. I’m too lazy to haul the sprinklers out this early! I also chose not to use the irrigation system at work this evening. Hope I chose wisely! ;)
I must’ve answered twenty questions today about anthracnose. It’s a fungal disease our Maple trees (and a few other things) get this time of year due to a cool, wet Spring. As soon as we warm up and have steady sunny days, it goes away.
People are in a panic over it each Spring, but it’s nice that they’re paying attention to the living things in their yards! :)
My Tree Peony is in bloom. Good Golly is she BEAUTIFUL! Huge, white blooms the size of a softball. :) My regular peonies seem a tad behind, but they’ll come. I have 15 of them, and am adding more. My very favorite flower. Love the fragrance.
http://www.peonies.org/cgi-bin/galleryA.cgi
Looks like I am on the western edge of the front, but it is predicted to get down to 36F here for the low Tuesday. Last week they projected a low of 39F and actual was 31F. Guess I will be getting out something to cover plants I have in the ground. Glad I delayed planting half of the plants I started indoors!