So hot out, need to start planting

[majorcatfish]

I hear ya...I am so tempted to turn on the AC today. But that would be sacrilege!

have been hardening the plants off, figure I better turn the a/c on and harden me off with a bit of cool air. it was only 82 here today, best to know if the a/c is working correctly now!!!!!

 

[MontyJ]

I'm sure we're in for some windy storms with all this sudden heat. Ok....we just entirely skipped over spring and went straight to summer! This sent a lot of unusual tornadoes through my region last year.

You could hill in those plants for now until you figure out where you want them, Secuono. That's what I did with my landscaping plants. They're chillin' out in the big garden for now.

You can be sure we'll have another cold snap before this is all said and done! I am just hoping the storms they are calling for on Thursday don't blow all the blooms off my peach tree before the bees do their thing.

My peaches are just at budswell...barely...this is just so unfair

 

[897tgigvib]

One thing you might could be may be able to do Sec, is start the seeds indoors, then when they sprout, take them at a fixed up place outside, even if it's a "redneck greenhouse", or just 2 x 4's nailed together with white plastic, with a shelf in it, and you can make the whole thing movable. Have a thermometer or 3 in it, and if it gets less than 45 or 50 degrees in it at night, move the flats inside the house at night. I double the flats up because they make them so flimsy. The little temporary greenhouse for a few flats can then be stored for next year or taken apart and make another little one like it the next year. Or if your days are nice, no makeshift greenhouse is needed. Trick is to do it soon as they sprout so they sprout hardened off already. Depends of course on the kind of plant.

For my beans, here this year i'm lucky. They are outside in the sun during the days, and since it's still like 49 or 50 at night, I bring them in at night. They'd actually be ok if I left them out, just those slightly cool nights for beans would slow them down, oh, maybe. I've been taking them outside since about the time about half of them started sprouting.

Saves the hassle of lights, plus i'm off grid, so I make do with as little electricity as possible. I did use a 17 watt heat pad though to sprout them.

 

[bj taylor]

it's been complex for me this year. the soil temp says I can plant cucumbers, peppers, etc. however, we're getting a hard cold snap for a day, then it'll warm up again. I guess i'll wait till this cold snap is gone & assume the cold is done.
I think we're getting a tough storm tonight. if not us, then somebody in tornado alley.

 

[majorcatfish]

I love my redneck greenhouse, It does exactly what it's suppose to do...
checked the soil temp this afternoon in the garden looks like 1 more week till they go in the ground.

 

[secuono]

One thing you might could be may be able to do Sec, is start the seeds indoors, then when they sprout, take them at a fixed up place outside, even if it's a "redneck greenhouse", or just 2 x 4's nailed together with white plastic, with a shelf in it, and you can make the whole thing movable. Have a thermometer or 3 in it, and if it gets less than 45 or 50 degrees in it at night, move the flats inside the house at night. I double the flats up because they make them so flimsy. The little temporary greenhouse for a few flats can then be stored for next year or taken apart and make another little one like it the next year. Or if your days are nice, no makeshift greenhouse is needed. Trick is to do it soon as they sprout so they sprout hardened off already. Depends of course on the kind of plant.

For my beans, here this year i'm lucky. They are outside in the sun during the days, and since it's still like 49 or 50 at night, I bring them in at night. They'd actually be ok if I left them out, just those slightly cool nights for beans would slow them down, oh, maybe. I've been taking them outside since about the time about half of them started sprouting.

Saves the hassle of lights, plus i'm off grid, so I make do with as little electricity as possible. I did use a 17 watt heat pad though to sprout them.

When I started them, it was always 50 or colder, day or night. It suddenly became nice, summer weather, skipped spring. Last week it would of been nightly too cold.

 

[secuono]