Late Freeze

[ozark hen]

It sure wouldn't hurt to cover them and why risk it? I would cover them for sure. Last night it was suppose to get down into the twenties but thank goodness all the blossoms on the trees are ok so it must not have been that bad. We are to have one more night of this.
If I had planted outside I would tented them in plastic and leave it till weather is done fooling around.

 

[Southern Gardener]

We had patches of frost last night in my area and supposed to again tonight - I covered my vegatables with nursery pots and brought in my ferns.

 

[Army Mom]

We are expecting a light freeze tonight too I am in norhtern Florida zone 8 I was going to post to ask for help what can I do to protect my garden i can cover the tomatoes,eggplants,peas, but the corn, squash,beans and others are too big to cover. We were lucky and got an early start on the garden i already have flowers and peas and little tomatoes on the vines help what can I do.

 

[ozark hen]

We had frost last night and it did get down in the twenties here but apparently not log enough to hurt anything as I went out to check this morning and fruit trees and other blossoms are fine. but I would keep sheets of plastic near by to use if I had any doubts for anything in the ground.

 

[Cassandra]

I am doing a little experimenting tonight to see what happens. Covered my two young blueberry bushes with five gallon buckets and wrapped a thick blanket around the pear tree. The plum trees are on their own. (They are really too big for me to do anything with.)

The blackberry briers along the fence--well, those are god's gift and will do as they please anyway.

We will see what happens and I will learn something one way or another.

Cassandra

 

[Cassandra]

The temp is 34.7 this morning at 6:33. I wonder where I can find out the hour by hour last night. I'm sure I've seen that on the web somewhere. I will report back how the trees are feeling.

Cassandra

 

[Cassandra]

I think it was 43 by the time I got to work and warming up fast today.

When I went outside this morning, there was scattered frost on the ground. The leaves on one of the plum trees has a thin layer of ice on it (but it had no fruit on it anyway; it was between the flower and fruit stage.)

Three other plum trees are growing in a more sheltered area. There are three large trees growing around them--sweetgum and oak. They didn't have any frost.

The blackberry bushes had a good dusting of frost on them, too.

If the affected trees have been damaged, how long will it be before I know? Will they be black and curled by the time I get home or will I just have to wait a couple of months to see how the fruit does?

Thanks, Cassandra

 

[GwenFarms]

We are under a frost warning tonight. I had dh help me cover up everything. Luckily he had a huge roll of plastic. It wasn't quite wide enough to cover all of the corn, but amazingly it was long enough. We took the couple of rows sticking out and covered them with feed sacks. I managed to cover all 36 tomato plants and the pepper plants. I was thankful this morning to see that the butter beans and string beans hadn't sprouted. I never thought I'd be glad for a slow seeding, but I suppose the soil being so cool has slowed them down. Things will be back to normal tommorow, I'll be planting squash!