What site are you getting your info? Dawn & I have both said we were expecting a late March or early April chill. Farmer's Almanac is calling for it, but so far "weather dot com" doesn't hold it in the next 10 days.

Sheesh....never a dull moment with Oklahoma weather!

Paula

Are you talking about lows or highs? I see a few lows in the mid to upper 30's but highs from 60's to upper 70's. Jay

Yes. lows in 30s (38) Gary England ch 9 OKC seven day. Yes. Pretty long range but better safe than sorry. Could be low 40s or below 35 . Just say'n if you are a sooner than latter type like me you might hold off on the zucs and cucs and eggplants oh my. For me I'm a small fry, I can gamble a few plants.

My temps are all over the place. One day last week the forecast was for 79 and it made it to 59. Tonight the forecast is from 46 to 54 depending on where you look. Now that is too wide a range for me to be comfortable with and with a chance of showers, I chickened out and covered my tomato plants. They are all outside but not in the garden. Unless they change the forecast for tomorrow we are to go to 31 degrees tomorrow night. That means I have to bring them inside again. Today they got lots of wind, but were only in the sun for a small part of the day. This gets complicated when the weather is wild. I wish I was trusting enough to believe the low of 46, but I'm not. LOL

Our low in our area for next Tuesday, depending on which forecast you look at, varies from 39 to 44. I'm not worried. I don't have anything in the ground "yet" that can't tolerate that. That's a week away anyway and a lot can change in a week. The local TV meteorologist I trust the most says he doesn't believe we'll have a freeze in our area on Mon. or Tues. but I'm not sure if he's ruled out the possibility of patchy frost.

I have row covers in 3 weights, including the heavy-duty 8 degree Agribon so even if I planted tomatoes tomorrow (and I'm not planning on it), I wouldn't be worried.

Our weather is all over the place, but mostly hot and windy, and with our highs going higher that forecast every day and almost every night too. Our ground is heating up fast.

Today I had to bring the tomatoes inside onto the sunporch at lunchtime because the wind was gusting into the 30s and they were getting beat to death. This week, the wind is giving me more trouble than the temperature, but the biggest weather issue is lack of rainfall. I'd gladly take 39 degrees, or even 35 degrees, if rain fell along with it.

None of us has reached our last frost date, have we? Well, maybe in SE OK. So, for most all of us, the risk of frost/freeze remains at least 50%.

Dawn

I had seedlings out on the front deck since yesterday. With forecast lows in the upper 40's tonite, I brought them in. They were protected from the wind anyway...but not the chill.

Jay - I'm so happy to see you posting! I was wondering about you!

I'm still proceding with extreme caution. We watered the cauliflower out in the "OG" tonite just for insurance, as well as GD's class-project cabbage. The onions are doing great...as is some voluntary garlic.

Yeh, it's too good to be true that we've already had our last freeze.

Paula

It's the usual Spring guessing game. Zones 5, 6, 7's last frost date is
April 15th. Except for tender, heat-loving veggies and flowers, everything will probably be OK, unless, of course, temps. go below freezing and stay there for several days. If there is a freeze, water everything well before you go to bed. Plants don't like dry roots and cold temps. If you did not cover your garden, and there is a frost, you can get out early before the sun hits the frosty plants and spray them down with the water hose. This keeps the sun from baking the frost covered plants. Hopefully, none of these precautions will be neccessary, but it DID snow in March last year!

Jeanie