I use the sprinkler system for a short cure. It will give your plants 60+ degrees. Never worry about that big stuff here. But thinking on it a king size mattress plastic cover or one made out of 6 mil plastic and either duct tape or a propane torch to make seams and a sixty-100 watt bulb will allow it you to extend the season. I use the small Christmas lights and clear plastic bags for extended periods. Costs virtually no money and will not burn plants or overheat. They also look cool and eerie to look out on a cold night and see the humidity in the inside and all the pretty lights. The stuff I use for mites anti stress 2000 is really designed for orchard use to prevent freeze damage. I do not know but it works good on mites. It has to be a lot cheaper than running the water on a city system for two nights. It is being tested by quite a few people. I will post results as they are verified. jim

Check your county's weather to get details of your area's weather challenges for today and tonight. So far, I've seen high wind advisories, high wind warnings, Red Flag Fire Warnings in a small number of counties in SW OK and even freeze warnings in the Panhandle counties. Wind today will be high in many areas and gusting in the 50s and 60s in some areas, which will heighten fire danger in those areas. Cold temperatures tonight will bring the threat of freezing or near-freezing conditions. Protect your tender vegetation accordingly if these are forecast for your area. You can check your county's specific watches, warnings and advisories by clicking on your county on the county maps on any of the NWS webpages (Norman, Tulsa, Amarillo). Remember that in these high winds, any fires that start will spread rapidly, even if you are not in a Red Flag Fire Warning area. After we make it through today's windy weather, tomorrow should be a really nice weather day. Dawn Here is a link that might be useful: Enhanced Webpage of Norman office of NWS

Take inside what you can. Cover the ones in ground with cloches or other containers or boxes. If not, cover with row cover or old sheets. Farmers usually use water mist or campfires to protect their crops. You can use these too. Good Luck! A few degrees above frost, and you may be ok, but best to be sure. If they do get cold damaged, damage can vary from very little to death of the plant. There are too many variables from hardiness to the temperature and humidity of air and ground, wind etc. to say how much damage you will get. Best to take precautions.

Larry, I don't know what that is. Do you suppose it could be some sort of Asian green similar to Bok Choy? That white base is what reminds me of Bok Choy, but I don't grow it, so don't know what it looks like at a young stage. Jennifer, I agree that the more property you have, the harder it is. At least the deer and voles have made it easy for me...they eat everything I plant that is not fenced off to exclude them, so I quit trying to have nice landscaping around the house, other than trees and a few shrubs and a couple of vines, because it all just becomes Deer Chow. This isn't necessarily a bad thing as it forces me to concentrate my efforts only within the fenced garden spots. I hope y'all got the photos done today. The weather here was bad in the morning, but not so bad by mid-afternoon. The sun even came out eventually, but now we're back to mud and standing puddles. The dogs came in from their dog yard, and I don't know what they did, but they all had wet, gooey mud about the consistency of chocolate pudding caked all over their feet up to their ankles. I spent a long time cleaning up after them since they left splotches of very wet mud with every step that they took. I'd rather have spent today in the garden, but it just wasn't a garden day today and tomorrow won't be either. Rebecca, I guess everyone was beyond ready for the Cherry Street market to be open and to have all those wonderful things available there. They sure did sell out early. I haven't seen anything 'yet' in the forecast that indicates your area will experience freezing temperatures, but I only look at the NWS forecast and it only goes out 7 days. Our coldest night so far looks like it will be Thursday night, and it really won't be that bad either (46 degrees on Thurs and 49 on Fri), but you're a lot further north, so seeing forecast lows in the upper 30s for your area isn't totally shocking. What worries me about forecast lows is that they often are highly inaccurate a week out. Last week we started out with a forecast low of 39 for our coldest weekend night, and then it dropped daily until it hit 32 I think, and our actual low was 31 or 32 but our Mesonet station was even colder---maybe 29. I think that whole progression of decreasing forecast lows for the 31st of Mar and 1st of Apr was a good reminder to me that just because the forecast looks good 6 or 7 days out, well.....I shouldn't assume it actually will be that good. The rain has been kind to us though....only rain, no hail, and that is about the best one can hope for in April. Areas of Texas well south and east of us got the sort of hail that was in our forecast as a general possibility. At least one area got much worse hail---Grapeland TX had mixed hail that seemed to range from maybe quarter sized to softball sized. I saw not just car windshields and windows either completely knocked out or with huge holes in them, but big fist-sized or larger holes in the bodies of the cars as well. Can y'all imagine what that sort of hail would do to a garden? I heard on the news that some hail-related injuries were reported---mostly due to flying glass. We were supposed to have 3 rounds of rain Friday night/Saturday and instead we only had 1. I'm okay with that. One was enough. Dawn