Yup. Pretty crazy. Supposed to get to 19(!) here in Wyoming. If this transpires this will likely be the third fall in a row with fried leaves and no fall color here. Pretty frustrating, almost sickening at this point. Almost every woody plant of mine took damage last year from early/late freezes

I've been in the midwest for the last 10 days. When I saw the forecast for next week here, I thought, no, surely that can't be right! I was looking forward to some cooler weather, but not this! At least we have a few days to decide what to cover and what to bring in from the veggie garden. I have so many vegetables in pots this year that I'm likely going to need to move them into the garage for a few days. Our in ground perennials, trees and shrubs, however are a different story. My honey locust trees had already begun leaf change before I left. This should finish the job! It is very frustrating. I guess we'll just have a longer fall planting season.

I'm predicted to have a high Tuesday of 39 and a low of 26. Wednesday a high of 55 and a low of 30. I'm not sure covering is going to be enough to protect at 26 degrees, but it's so early that I feel like I have to try! Let's cross our fingers and hope the forecast is wrong! Hope for the best, plan for the worst.

It does feel like mama nature is conspiring to test the hardiness of our gardens with the drought this year, the huge temp swing last October, again in April and now coming next week!

The temperature forecast keeps dropping whenever I look at it. There's so much to protect right now. I figure the basil we can do a heavy harvest, and make pesto, and then cover those plants with buckets or hot caps. The pole beans and okra will most likely die :( We have a lot of things we can use to cover up tomatoes, peppers and eggplants but with the temperature I'm not sure it will be enough. The one advantage we have is that the soil temperature overall is very warm. So if the coverings can reach the ground and be somewhat tucked in the heat of the earth might be enough.

I'm hoping digit will chime in and explain his procedure for using overhead sprinklers, which I'm considering using.

Oh, I know - can't believe what they are predicting! Will watch each day to see if it changes, but will prepare as best I can. We cut back to indeterminate tomatoes a few days ago so they'd put their energy into the existing tomatoes. May try to bag some of them Monday, and leave some on the vine to see how they do if we cover the plant. I'll let the pumpkin go, as it hasn't produced much anyway. I'll cover the basil and pepper (but I'll pick the fruit that's on it). And I'll likely dig up the carrots. I do have a few perennials blooming, so I'll try to cover the ones I can. The hardy hisbiscus will be difficult because of it's size, but it has so many buds on it this year would like to see if I can save it. I'll definitely cover the rose of sharon as it just started blooming. Glad it's a 3 day weekend to give me time to do this!

I know we’re really not prepared for this cold front. I’ve tried to cover tomatoes before, but the plants are too tall and too many. I’m just going to pick all the tomatoes and let them ripen in buckets or on a table in the basement. I’m hoping to cover the hot peppers at the community garden, and leave the carrots and beets for a later harvest.

At home I have peppers in pots so they’ll come into the basement for a few days and then maybe the weather will be OK for them to still set fruit and ripen outside. The rest of the garden will be toast. It’s going to be a busy weekend.

Well I am pleasantly surprised that virtually everything made it through the cold and snow in pretty good shape. Even the okra, beans and some pepper plants that we didn't cover. We will probably continue covering the basil with buckets most nights for now.

Now if we can another four weeks or so of mild weather would be awesome.

Did the Denver area get much snow?

We had lows of 24, 22, 25 and didn't get above freezing for about 48 hours straight. Pretty much everything that I didn't cover died, however I had really good lick with the things I did cover. Gratefully, it didn't turn out that bad, it definitely could have been worse. Leaves on trees didn't fry too bad, I think.. Damage will be apparent shortly.

Most of the snow melted fairly quick here north of Denver even as it was landing on surfaces. The deepest I saw was about 2 inches. If i had to guess I'd say we had 4 inches total of snow plus some rain. Temperature got down to 28 here.

On Tuesday, my distant garden had a morning low of 35°f. Here at home, it was 41°.

The Labor Day windstorm not only brought cooler temperatures but drove fires, some of which, are far from contained. There are forestfires within about 30 miles from here both west and northeast. The air smells continuously of smoke but hasn't been too bad.

I deeply wish that the storm had brought some rain. We have had 31/100 of an inch of rain since 1 July, officially.

Steve

We were pleased also. Took off the tarp yesterday and all the veggies looked good. Everything in the veggie garden survived last night without a cover.

Before the snow storm I cut a bunch of flowers (mostly roses but also some garden flowers) and probably didn't need to as most seemed to do ok.

Like everyone else, it wasn't too bad here. I only covered a few things, and all those plus the ones I didn't cover, maybe it through fine. :)

My peach tree suffered another big limb loss from the weight of the snow on green leaves. But other than that, I am shocked at how good other things look. My hardy hibiscus put out new blooms today, black/blue salvia and cleome that I left on the deck both look pretty good all things considered. I really worked hard to put away a lot of plants that also probably would have made it through. I guess I'll just take solace in now I am ahead of the game for the big put-away.

Super pretty mmmmm12

The only casualties up in Fort Collins was a few branches off my roses and spirea, as well as some of my sunflowers -- the snow pulled them over and flattened them! I think the super warm ground kept everything from a hard freeze. I brought in over a dozen pots of peppers for a couple days, turning the kitchen into a pepper jungle. Heh.

OMG I don't even see peppers, I see that beautiful bird! So cute!

My biggest loss from this snow storm was a huge branch on my peach tree which provides the majority of shade to my hosta garden. I will have to do some sort of shade rig-up next year.

My replanted bed (that was destroyed by voles just a couple of years ago) came through spectacularily. I cut some flowers from it for the house but thought I'd lose the rest and that would be it for the year.

Instead we are enjoying lots of colorful fall flowers.

Very pretty!!