Oh, golly, I hope you haven’t looked at chocolate prices recently! Headed further up too, supposedly. :-(
Yet another question for anyone:
Our forecast is for unusually warm weather, then a cold snap: Highs will be ~80° today, then 82°, 84°, 80°, 80°, then a cool down after that with a possible frost / freeze by NEXT weekend.
My cool weather veggies (lettuce, etc.) are still in containers, and I don’t think any plant is even 5” tall yet. It might be best to bring ‘em back in the (unheated) basement under my shop and under grow lights?? Take ‘em back out once highs decline and cover on frosty nights...
Oh, sure. I’ve had many Springs moving plants in and out based upon the temps. We had SNOW last mid-April. Ugh!
You could just cover up the lettuce with a towel or blanket overnight. Keeping to cold air off the leaf mass is the goal.
High of 86 here tomorrow so I think I’m putting up the shade cloth today. Just going to put it over the back half of the little garden which is where all the choy and lettuce is. That’ll give them shade starting at 1pm. I’ll keep an eye on them and if they get wilty, I’ll run the micro-sprinklers for a few minutes here and there to cool off the leaves. That’s what a lot of market gardeners do to grow lettuce in the summer.
Since yours are still in pots, bringing them in and out would be easy, but for days, you could just move them to some mid day shade or dappled shade if you have a good spot.