Need help to protect Clematis from hard freeze tonight
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Ways to protect tender vegetables from frost/freezing?
Comments (12)Denninmi took the words right out of my mouth, starting with "Here in Michigan..." Heck, up here, the average last frost date is May 26, but the range is so wide that there is really no way to plan. Sure, I may get a frost on June 1st, but that is after 2 Warm, frost-free weeks. Weeks that I won't waste waiting for a maybe-frost. So, yes, never, ever, throw away an old blanket, sheet towel, tarp, etc. I don't like using those small tomato cages but I have tons of them from a MIL who love to go garage saling. They are great for laying down between plants to hold up the sheet. And yes, even a sheet is enough protection for a light frost. It isn't the cold that kills the plants. It is the formation of ice crystals on the leaves and stems. A sheet will take on the ice chrystals, leaving your plants safe for another day. Kay. ps. Basil. In the garden. In APRIL! I am sooooo jealous....See MoreFreeze tonight on already damaged plants
Comments (8)and this is why.. over the years.. i am NEVER excited.. when they pop out of the ground.. there is simply nothing i can do on acreage ... and mother nature hates me.. you asked what to do .. NOTHING ... any green will continue to photosynthesize.. even a half leaf.. even just a celery stalk with no leaf ... so just ignore them for a week or two.. and then start picking off completely dead stuff.. even using scissors to cut damage off a half leaf ... like you might do with a houseplant ... inside a few weeks... as the plant continues its spring push.. most of them will hide or overgrow the damage ... and even the ones totally froze to the ground will recover... but that will take much monger whats really damaging.. and heart breaking.. is when they freeze to the ground.. RECOVER.. and then get hit with frost again ... since hosta come up on stored energy ... getting hit twice.. can really set the plant back a year or two ... but by this time.. you are suicidal .. and all you can do is complain .. become your inner farmer..... ken...See MoreTonight's Freeze and Frost Danger
Comments (24)Ahh - New plant disease. LOL I almost did the same thing, but not with peppers. I have a newly planted salad bed that I stuck a few of my transplants into and planted seed in the rest. A few days later, I could see little green things all over it. Well some of the lettuces had started to come up and were teeny, tiny, but the rest was something blowing in from the neighbors tree. It was bright green and in tiny little pieces. Thanks for the pepper info. I was hoping that they would be a small plant, but was afraid they would not be. I think there are going to be some crowded plants in my garden this year. I wish seed companies would put the size of the fruit or other edible part of the plant AND the 'average' size of the plant on seed packages. It would certainly make planning easier.....and I HATE, HATE, HATE generic seed packages. If it weren't for the internet we probably wouldn't know what we were planting. LOL Actually I don't mind the Thompson and Morgan method of a generic package inside the 'picture pack'. I think the foil pack may also protect for a little longer. It looks like a good business decision to me since you don't have to use colored and expensive printing to print packs for things that never make it to the shelf. Just stuff the pack as your inventory needs require. With the date stamped on the inside pack only, you could use the same outside pack for years, but only pay printing costs for the ones you really sell or display. I think maybe the Brits got it right on that one. LOL I had two tomato plants outside last night. One was in a container and covered with a milk jug with the cap off and the bottom cut out. I slid it under a glass top table for the night, and the other was in the center of a huge container with a window across the top. The window didn't cover the top of the pot, but did help to shield the plant a little. Everything here looks good but it still feels cool at 48 degrees. I need to go pull my 'tomato wagons' out into the sun. Just as I was typing this the temp jumped to 50 so I guess the peppers get to come out also. We're walking, walking, walking. I need to go move a few more from their tiny blocks to a pot. I'm almost done with that task, but I am getting some pepper seed in the mail this week and I know I will have to plant a few of those. Do I need them? No, of course not, but they will be pretty in the garden. LOL...See MoreSeedling hard freeze protection
Comments (11)Peter, if you have short and thin bamboo sticks(sold in HD by the pack, usually 3-4') and old hose, there is an easy way to make pretty strong support system. Measure you bed width and add desired height X 2 to it. Cut hose in pieces of this length. (For example, if your bed is 3' and you want it 1 ft high, you need 4-5'' pieces.)You need a support every 3', so for a 12' bed you need 5 pieces. Now, cut you bamboo sticks - you will need 5 pieces long as your bed width (3' in my example) and 10 sticks long enough to push in the ground for about a foot and have desired height on top of the bed. Now, insert long bamboo sticks inside the hose pieces, push it in the middle, leaving the ends flexible. Insert pairs of shorter sticks in the soil every 3' one stick on on side of the bed, another at the opposite side, on the same line. now just bend the flexible ends of the hose piece, and put them on two opposite sticks, making a gate. Then you just cover it with AG-19, as many layers you want. I do such gates up to 3' high, and they usually survive whole summer long for plants I am protecting with tulle. Lower ones should be even stronger....See MoreNHBabs z4b-5a NH
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