Rightly, my latest forecast is 30 degrees Wednesday night. I’ll have to cover all plants. The ones in the net room are gathered together so it will be easy to cover those. The strawberry plants are together so that will be easy and for sure I’ll cover the carrots and turnips.
I’ll cover the big squash plant with row cover, too, as it still has blossoms. I measured the squash on it and it’s 18 inches long. Planting these squash in containers in spring when one is supposed to do it, rather than when I did it, should bring a bounty of squash not killed by moths/borers.
My volunteer tobacco plant got moved into the sun shelf yesterday.
Today, I removed the plastic from the garden where I had it covered since May. The plastic worked as advertised, and killed off all the bermuda and grassburrs, along with everything else. The organic material I had left under it has decomposed nicely, and the area is ready to till and will easily be ready for spring. I'll be using the plastic film in the future to clear natural growth in preparation for gardening.
/johnny