Fortunately the temps did not drop below 30, so I am hoping my nearly in full bloom strawberries survived. The shock of this was that we reached the 80s and in a matter of few hours ‘old man winter’ blew in an Arctic blast’. I figure Obama’s scheme to go green energy is over reacting. (I can barely bear watching all the greenies on the Weather Channel these days.(s/)
It has rained on and off all day with the high reaching 37. Overnight is suppose to be 35. I have read strawberry blossoms will not get damaged if the temps stay above the 28 degrees without any kind of protection. It was impossible to cover these plants without the heavy rain then snow mashing them. So I left them uncovered and time will tell.
Hubby covered ours with straw right after planting. So far so good. Course we will be picking all the blooms off of the new ones anyway.
It does seem like we had a brief sprin, skipped summer and went straight back to winter.LOL