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The brassicas, onions, and potatoes that I had out in the big garden survived this last nasty freeze. I finally dug them out of their mulch cover today. Potatoes look a little rough, but that's to be expected. It's early enough that they'll put out some new growth.

/johnny

About the three containers with three seed potatoes in each container - a question:

I noticed this morning one of the containers has a stalk with a tiny bit of leaf about two inches or less growing out of the mix in the container. The other two potatoes in that container are still under the mix. What do I do now? Do I leave the stalk there uncovered or do I put enough mix in the container to cover it up?

This cold icy weather has taught me something - it allowed me to know which type plants suffer the most in this type weather even when they are covered.

The Mortgage Lifter tomato plant died. The Sweet Million Tomato looks really bad. The other three types of tomato plants are okay.

Cucumbers are fragile no matter the type. The four Homemade Pickles Cucumbers didn't look great after I transplanted them into larger containers, but the cold has killed them, I'm sure. The Carolina cucumbers were in smaller pots and it appears only one is going to live. These seeds come up fast in Espoma seed starter so I will plant them later next year to avoid possible cold/ice weather. I have Supremo and National Pickling Cucumbers under the grow lamp. As soon as I get more Espoma seed starter around March 17, I will plant more Homemade Pickles and Carolina cucumbers.

The Borettana Cipollini (Italian) onions died. The other types, three different bunching type, are okay. I'll plant more Cipollini seed when I get more Espoma starter.

I have a bunch of celery plants in a smaller pot with the other young seedlings that were out there, and the celery looks like they spit in the eye of the freeze, absolutely not bothered by the freeze. Those need to be put in a bigger pot, actually thinned out as there are so many in there. The pepper seedlings of several types appear to have made it - barely. Peppers are slow to grow from seed.

Numerous seedlings under the grow lamp already need to be in bigger pots but the seeds in the Jiffy seed starter have not sprouted, not even one cup. Those will be planted again when I get the Espoma starter. That is my biggest failure to date - that lousy Jiffy seed starter.

Buy Espoma Seed Starter if you actually want seeds to sprout and fast.

I lost some patio plants during the last freeze. None of my fruit trees got nipped. They are full of blossoms today and the bees are loving the fresh nectar.