Thanks for the heads up David. I'm sorry you put all of that out! Can you drag it all back in?

I put all of my tomato and other transplants "on top" of the garden beds but have not actually planted them in the ground yet and based on the weather for Tuesday and Wedsnesday, which is supposed to mid-30's, I may not plant until after June 1st and bring the babies under the porch.

I didn't believe you, David -- :-) -- so I checked NOAA, and you ARE supposed to be getting down around freezing on Tuesday and Wednesday nites! Ouch! do you have lots of old bedsheets on hand?

I don't think eggplants will make it even with a sheet over them, but the petunias and geraniums should be ok if they're on the ground and covered up.

I sure hope you don't have to carry it all back in! I'm not showing quite as cold as Charlene--only in the low 40's--but I put my tomatoes and eggplants in the ground a couple days ago, so I hope they're right. I'm sure not going to dig them back up again, so if they decide it's going to get near freezing here, they'll just have to make it by being covered up. In an extreme situation, I think mine would be ok with inverted pots over them.

Good luck,
Skybird

Most of it should be ok, I'll drag what I can back inside, and cover with pots what I can't.

Tuesday and Wednesday night at 33ºF, snow in the mountains.

David, it's always best to face the elements, gardening, and the civil bureaucracy in the same fashion:

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Do you need to beat on the lid with the stick? :')

If you carry all that stuff back in again you just know it will never go below 40. Better leave it out, and maybe 'moon' the weather satellite camera.

How's your weather, and how are your plants, David?

Aren't they predicting snow somewhere down here? We got the major downpours and hail yesterday. I really don't want to complain about any drop of moisture, but sure hope for warmer temps in other areas.

shudavies nailed it, I spent yesterday afternoon, in the 45ºF drizzle and wind, hauling aaaaaaall those sodden, really heavy containers and hanging plants back into the greenhouse, got sopping wet and cold, and this morning, the max - min thermometer says it got down to 42ºF. Our forecast is 31ºF tonight, with rain all day and snow over 7500 ft, and I'm at 7200 feet.

Its days like this, I like to sing to myself one of Tiny Tim's greatest hits:

"When it's springtime in the Rockies
I am coming back to you
Little sweetheart of the mountains
With your bonny eyes of blue
Once again I'll say I love you
While the birds sing all the day
When it's springtime in the Rockies
In the Rockies, far away "

Same here, David. Our forecast low was 33, but it was 39 when I woke up this morning. Yesterday, I took the tops of 2L bottles that I had cut in half and bamboo sticks, and made little covers for all of my annuals and herbs that I had already planted out. Didn't cover the tiny perennial seedlings that were planted out. I use the "tough love" method of gardening perennials. Then I moved the containers on the porch all the way against the house.

Tonight our low is predicted to be 30 degrees, so unless the sun decides to come out, I think I will just leave my covers on until tomorrow.

The vegetable seeds were planted 6 days ago. Do you think a couple of cold, wet days will rot them?

All depends on who you believe, if any. Weatherunderground says 33, Accuweather says 41, NWS say 37. We got down to 38 last night. They are scattered again in their predictions for tonight. Well, the remay and sheets will stay on the plants until tomorrow. Geeze!

Hope everyone's plants make it okay through this little spell!

HEY NO FAIR! Even Canon City is predicted to hit 35 tonight. Here in the 'Climate Capital of Colorado', the 'Banana Belt', the 'Home of the Hothouse Honeys'.

Okay, I made that last one up. But "GEEZ" is right!

Well its 4:20, and we have sleet, and a rapidly falling temp, now 35º.

Back to you in the studio.

2" of snow here, and coming down fast. Temp is down to 30....for me, more snow is good. It's supposed to get down to 22.....

Good luck tonight everyone! I hope nobody looses anything!

Happy Rocky Mountain Spring,
Skybird

I had frost on the lawn, but directly around the house things stayed above freezing, and the window boxes are fine. Front patio was 34º. Durango, Pagosa Springs, and other towns around were down around 25º.

Dodged that one.

Me too, David! The official low last night was 33, but the thermometer outside my kitchen window was 35 around 6:30 this morning. All of the plants looked fine this A.M.

Now that the danger of frost has past, I think I'll go plant something.

Got down to 35 as an overnight low out here in the boonies. Also got lots of lovely soft rain from mid-afternoon to late last night. 1.4 inches. That's really nice for the wheat and pastures out here as well as our little gardens. Pulled the remay this morning and everyone was just fine. Thank goodness!

We had a wonderful soaking rain as well, and today I was out in the vegetable garden easily pulling up huge dandelions, foot long roots and all. I must say, I can grow some healthy specimens.

Glad to hear everyones plants are OK. My lows up here where about 32. Every thing did fine till this afternoon, when the snow I got was melting and coming down as sheets of ice. Snapped the peonys down to H-E-Double-Hocky-Sticks, Oh Well.

I got 20 degrees this morning when I got up, but thanks to Skybird's mention of old sheets and 5 inches of snow, the damage was pretty minimal.

I'm sorry to hear about your peonies, Prime---that's sad---but I'm glad to hear nobody had any serious freezing damage. I only got down to 40 degrees here on the north end of Denver--so no problems at all.

Glad to hear the bedsheets worked for you, Jean. Any time you need to cover stuff, use some sort of fabric rather than plastic. Plastic can transmit the cold and freeze any foliage that's touching it.

Here comes the warm up! Hopefully that's our last serious "winter" weather.

Skybird

David I seem to grow fine dandelion specimens myself!

I was just out inspecting my seedlings and all the sunflower seedlings look fine and all the cool weather veggie crops are fine. My tomatoes I kept up near the house under the porch. But my nasturtiums seedlings I planted from seed all around the strawberry patch got fried by the frost. I picked off the brown leaves and the stem is still left, maybe new leaves will grow? Wishful thinking? I'll plant some more this weekend, sigh.

Didn't really get any frost, but it got down to around 34. I pulled pretty much everything inside that wasn't frost resistant so no problems here. But this rain had really pissed off my containers and now I am dealing with root rot in several of them. I have decided to repot all of my perennials to try to stop the rot. >:(

Charlene, nasturtiums are pretty tough. When I first transplanted mine into the veggie patch, they lost a few leaves, but they are coming back just fine. Have you seen their roots? They are huge!

They've got us down to 34ºF on Wednesday night. This morning, the Grand Junction NOAA site had Wednesday night at 38º.

Here we go again.

Right now, its 83ºF.

David, it's after 3 PM here on the northern tier and the temp is only 54°F under a blue sky (at 1 PM it was only 49°). This appears to be as warm as it will be today. NOAA had predicted 69°!!

The temperatures aren't nearly as "precipitous" here as at those highalt Colorado locations but a 30° drop overnight isn't unheard of during the growing season. So let's see, 54 minus 30, uh . . . . Gadzooks!!

Please, please let there be a heavy blanket of clouds tonight.

DigitS'

Steve, we routinely do 50º swings day - night. Somebody somewhere mentioned that this sure is a great climate for a human to live in, but not so swell to grow tomatoes.

Oh well. Bindweed, thistle, and cheat grass sure do good.

Nah,

40º is common, 90º - 50º most the summer, but a 50º swing is rarer.

A blurry sunrise, 39ºF, 100% humidity - - Fog

DigitS'