I have a little bit of everything,tarps,old blankets,coats,buckets-even kids swimming pool. But I don't think will have any fruit this year.
My Bleeeding Heart has been covered for 3 days now and they are saying another freeze warning for tonight too. But then better for the weekend and next week.
Yep! Tonight AGAIN! I have knee high tomatoes in the high tunnel and a few of them didn't make it for the first really cold night, even covered. Oh well! there are more worrisome tings in life, I'll just replant a few of them,
We have not put our tomatoes out yet-don't even have them for sale around here. But I put them out early. Have those wall-a waters. Like a tee-pee form -2 layers. Put water in middle. my bleeding heart would like to put in different spot. On NW corner of the house.Has gotten big. Had old rain coats over 2 laundry baskets.But one of my late blooming tulips just started blooming. Got kitty litter buckets on them
We cover plants to protect them, not from cold snaps, but from hail. When a hail storm is predicted, I haul out all my black plastic pots and turn them over plants, then weight them down with bricks or large stones. I have three shelves of pots in the barn, and sometimes we need every one of them! The first year we were in Texas we had a hail storm and my poor cucumbers never did recover.
I covered my wall of waters last night with styrofoam plates with some gravel in them. Plants are to big to close tops of WOW. The plates seemed to work well as they fit down in a little and the gravel kept the wind from blowing them away.
Donna, That is a great idea. Thanks for sharing it. My tomatoes grew out of the WOW's in two weeks it was so warm here after we planted them, so now they are out of the WOW's and in cages covered with floating row cover inside of the high tunnel.
no frost just very cold high wind. Carolyn Wish I'd had my camera this morning. Some of the styrofoam plates I put water in to hold them down. This morning they were bird baths. The birds thought they had their own private bathes. I hope to take wow's off this weekend when hubby gets home. I afraid I'll break plants trying to lift them over myself.
The fruit orchards and grape growers having a time. One guy put his gas grill close by and a fan under apple tree.. They said early next week might even get snow.
Our local orchard has their fans on and it sounds like a tornado over there. The first time they turned them on (during the day to check them) people went to their basements thinking there was a tornado coming through. They have another orchard south of them by an hour and they lost the entire peach crop due to the cold Our apples still are looking fine even though it has been cold at night and had a few frosts, the petals don't look frozen. Now I haven't checked them this morning, so I am hoping they are still fine.
