low of 36 tomorrow night. will robust tomato plants survive this?

[897tgigvib]

I sure hope all went well for them.

 

[baymule]

Most of my tomatoes are in a bed up against the south side of my house. The rest of the garden is on the south side of the house as well. So far, predictions are for 40 degrees with winds at 10 MPH for tomorrow night. I'll wait and see how you fare tonight before I go nuts wrapping up the garden. The beans I got from Russ are still in pots and I'll bring them in......I had just got the big cattle syrup lick tube ready to plant, but I can wait a few more days.

The last frost we had, only the potato tops got burned, and they were in tubs in the front close to the street with no cover. The potatoes in the other beds were unharmed, probably because of their proximity to trees and the house.

Keep us posted, I hope you get through tonight unscathed.

 

[bj taylor]

I have had to have a major temper tantrum. i'm over it now & can speak without cussing. I work so hard to stop cussing & then something happens & there I go again.
the set up to cover the onions collapsed & half my onions are broken over
the chicks are cold & I set up a place for them to get out of the wind & hung a heat light but they stay under an area they picked out. it gets the full north wind. they're puffed up from the cold. I didn't want to lock them in the coop for fear they would harass my broody too much.

I thought I had everything under control yesterday afternoon & I wouldn't have to go out in this beastly weather to wrestle with anything - ha! there goes the best laid plans.

the wind is bitter cold & blowing right off the ice caps at 30mph.

 

[ducks4you]

I would cover them with rugs or burlap. Do you have any shower curtains that need replacing? Use those, too. If you have straw you could blanket them and just the tops will die, but not the roots.

 

[baymule]

Oh BJ, so sorry you have to go out in the blowing cold wind. I'm mad too!! How 'bout we chew nails in half together? (spitting out rusty #8's) What's next? You want me to kick some chicken bootie for you? Dumb chicks! Git yore feather-butts under that nice heat lamp BJ fixed fer 'ya!! You get your plants and chicks all tucked in for the night and get a cup of hot tea.

 

[bj taylor]

thanks bay for commiserating w/me. tomorrow will be better. everybody is tucked in for the night. let it blow

 

[baymule]

Be sure and let us know in the morning how the garden is doing.

 

[bj taylor]

things survived fairly well. no frost, but the wind chill was phenomenal! onions took the hardest hit because the cover wasn't secured well enough & it broke down quite a few. tomatoes are good. my one pumpkin plant looks good too. I want a big beautiful pumpkin this fall.

 

[OldGuy43]

I notice someone mentioned "wind chill". From NOAA, the National Weather Service:

1. What is wind chill temperature?

A. The wind chill temperature is how cold people and animals feel when outside. Windchill is based on the rate of heat loss from exposed skin caused by wind and cold. As the wind increases, it draws heat from the body, driving down skin temperature and eventually the internal body temperature. Therefore, the wind makes it FEEL much colder. If the temperature is 0 degrees Fahrenheit and the wind is blowing at 15 mph, the wind chill is -19 degrees Fahrenheit. At this wind chill temperature, exposed skin can freeze in 30 minutes.

2. Can wind chill impact my car's radiator or exposed water pipe?

A. The only effect wind chill has on inanimate objects, such as car radiators and water pipes, is to shorten the amount of time for the object to cool. The inanimate object will not cool below the actual air temperature. For example, if the temperature outside is -5 degrees Fahrenheit and the wind chill temperature is -31 degrees Fahrenheit, then your car's radiator will not drop lower than -5 degrees Fahrenheit.

Even the TV meteorologists around here, and they should know better keep telling us to protect our pipes because "with the wind chill it's going to get below freezing." Makes me angry.

 

[bj taylor]

oldguy43, are you sure about that? that is great to know that the pipes won't get colder than actual temp. we could have saved ourselves some trouble wrapping pipes last night.