[LPPT]

I have been watching the 10 day, the forecast for tomorrow night was 38, now it has changed to 34.
I am keeping my fingers crossed, I have a lot of stuff in the beds already and seedlings just coming up.
I am wondering if I should cover things tomorrow night.

[lowrider]

I'm wondering the same thing.

[LPPT]

lowrider, on 10 April 2012 - 07:05 AM, said:

I'm wondering the same thing.

I don't have enough sheets to cover what I have planted so far, it it gets bad I will have some loss for sure.
Will watering late at night help protect them?
I will probably cover the more expensive annuals, I can replant seedlings.
I put out 2 beautiful hibiscus I got on sale as in the ground. I will have to cover them for sure.

[WhiteWitch369]

Last week i was in capris and tee shirts and now im layered up like an eskimo...Nanny always called this "blackberry winter" but she can KEEP IT!!!! Im freezing and i know what i have planted last week as seeds in the garden is gonna need replanting when i get back from the mtns next week but such is life. I didnt risk taking any houseplants outside or buying any annuals just yet....with Easter being so early this year i JUST KNEW we'd have one more cold snap and they'd get bit. Good luck covering and keeping yall's stuff alive though...I really do hope everyone's things dont get damaged. In the meantime Ill keep mine in the greenhouse till i return from where ITS EVEN COLDER...brrrrr...Im gonna be zipping thru trees on ziplines at 10:30 in the morning Friday freezing to death while my gal friend is gonna be loving the cooler temps!!

[MillCreek]

......Can we have some S-N-O-W?!?!?!?

[Happy Wife And Mom]

My kitchen table is full of seedlings. I am glad I didn't plant them yet.

[lowrider]

I really don't have that much, just a few pepper plants, cukes and tomatoes and I can over them all.

My azaleas are basically through, but I really don't think it will be that bad. Probably should cover seedlings ....but I think all of my flowers will be fine.

I remember last April I had to cover everything.... I think we had a freeze. I'm not expecting that.

Fingers crossed. LOL

[MsGaStorm]

It looks like Thursday and Friday mornings we will be in the 30s. We currently also have a warning for high fire danger. Please be careful out there. Here is the link to the Dallas, GA forecast with the National Weather Service. http://forecast.weat....x=106&map.y=94

[surepip]

You can also use laundry bags to cover plants and buckets or other containers for covering larger plants.

Looks like its going to be close though. If it gets down to 34F or 35F you may just have to replant.

[krwills]

A bale of wheat straw goes a long way at small plant protection.
Do not weight the plants down with it, just go around them and a little over the tops, to help keep frost off them.
If we do not get a freeze, the plants should be fine with just a little frost cover.
By layering the straw around and over them, the frost doesn't get to them so easy.
You also do not have to worry about cooking the plants if the sun gets to them before you pull back the straw. You can leave it several days. Just check to assure that the wind hasn't uncovered them too much.

[surepip]

krwills, on 10 April 2012 - 02:58 PM, said:

A bale of wheat straw goes a long way at small plant protection.
Do not weight the plants down with it, just go around them and a little over the tops, to help keep frost off them.
If we do not get a freeze, the plants should be fine with just a little frost cover.
By layering the straw around and over them, the frost doesn't get to them so easy.
You also do not have to worry about cooking the plants if the sun gets to them before you pull back the straw. You can leave it several days. Just check to assure that the wind hasn't uncovered them too much.

Make VERY certain the bale of straw is seed free. I made that mistake many, many years ago, and fought the weeds for several years as a result.

Same with manure. If it is not well, well composted, you need to use it at the bottom of the hole you plant in, or be prepared to fight the weeds which you will get from seeds which passed through the horse's digestive tract, in tact, and which if not burned up by the composting action, these will germinate.

I hate pulling weeds!

[Lucky64]

It was trying to sprinkle here at my house about 20 minutes ago. I'm not getting this weather and why the news people aren't reporting the weather correctly. Like one day last week, we had dark clouds and rain but yet nothing was being reported on weather channel, computer, nor the news.

[KRM]

The question here is... To cover or not to cover???

[surepip]

Tonight you should be OK, although tomatoes, peppers, etc., should be hardened off it they are outside and uncovered.

Tomorrow night is an absolute yes. Mid to low 30s will kill tomatoes, beans, squash, etc.

[LPPT]

surepip, on 10 April 2012 - 04:53 PM, said:

Tonight you should be OK, although tomatoes, peppers, etc., should be hardened off it they are outside and uncovered.

Tomorrow night is an absolute yes. Mid to low 30s will kill tomatoes, beans, squash, etc.

I am going to use what I have always used, bedsheets, hang them to dry during the day, recover the next night then wash and fold when the danger is over.

[lowrider]

I have peppers and tomatoes in containers on my deck.

Should I cover them tonight? And what do you mean hardened off?

TIA

LPPT, on 10 April 2012 - 04:58 PM, said:

I am going to use what I have always used, bedsheets, hang them to dry during the day, recover the next night then wash and fold when the danger is over.

Me too!

[surepip]

lowrider, on 10 April 2012 - 05:00 PM, said:

I have peppers and tomatoes in containers on my deck.

Should I cover them tonight? And what do you mean hardened off?

TIA
Me too!

When you first take tender plants outside to get acclimated, that is called "hardening off", then...if there is a night like tonight, they will be OK. The point is to keep them from getting "shocked" by a radical temperature change before they are "hardened off".

[lowrider]

Mine have been outside in pots 3-4 weeks now. So I guess they ar hardened.

But I'm going out now to move them up against a wall and cover them. They are full of blooms and I have 3 tomatoes.

Thanks!

[Riptides]

Hey! What the Hell? We totally just got gypped on rain.

The weather forecast for the rest of the week has been all over the place today online

What's the word from the weather folks in the city?

[KRM]

We planted everything on Saturday, They came from a FABULOUS Greenhouse in Douglasville. So, I am thinking they are "hardened" but I am a total novice at this. Loving it but a novice. Should I cover them?

[Oh No Its Me]

I didn't plant anything yet, the husbands Grandmother always insists on waiting until late April I think around the 21st is the magic number.

I do have some landscape roses blooming though

[lowrider]

Mine are covered and ready.

[LPPT]

lowrider, on 10 April 2012 - 07:06 PM, said:

Mine are covered and ready.

Now they raised it back up to 37 tomorrow night, if I blog on their site it won't be nice

[KRM]

Ok- I'm gonna head out and cover them up. Y'all scare me.

[LPPT]

LPPT, on 10 April 2012 - 07:12 PM, said:

Now they raised it back up to 37 tomorrow night, if I blog on their site it won't be nice

I just expanded wed. forecast, 10 mile an hour winds that night too, the sheets are staying in the closet

[SOLO]

Now some are saying it will only get in the mid to low 40's

[KRM]

We are covered up!

SOLO, on 10 April 2012 - 07:32 PM, said:

Now some are saying it will only get in the mid to low 40's

Would you like for me to bring your Tomato stuff tomorrow???

[~lovapet~]

Should I cover my rose bushes too ????????

[LPPT]

~lovapet~, on 10 April 2012 - 08:16 PM, said:

Should I cover my rose bushes too ????????

Rose bushes are very tolerant of cold, unless you just put them out I would not bother.

[~lovapet~]

LPPT, on 10 April 2012 - 08:26 PM, said:

Rose bushes are very tolerant of cold, unless you just put them out I would not bother.

Good, they should be ok.....I'm gonna take hubby's truck and pull it up to the back patio and load all my potted veggies and plants in there and pull it in the garage or just throw a sheet over the back. My flower beds, I can just throw sheets over them

[lowrider]

TWC is reporting 33 tonight and 37 tomorrow night.

Mine are covered.

[surepip]

This is not all bad though.

Other than squash, cukes, and a half a bed of beans, everything else we have in the garden right now will enjoy the cooler weather and will hold for that much longer.

Lettuce, arugula, onions, broccoli, snow peas, sugar snaps, spinach, romaine, etc.

And, my 2 beds of potatoes will set more tubers with the cold night time temps.

Luckily we have not put out tomatoes and peppers etc. in the ground.

[WhiteWitch369]

well just wonderful....ill be sure and get pictures of me ziplining nantahala river gorge bundled up like an eskimo!!! i cant seem to plan a vacation anymore without a drastic weather change!!! When we went to Jaimaica to escape the cold in february i had long sleeves on the entire cruise!!! Others were sunbathing and swimming, but NOT ME. GOOD LORD! Figures....wish me luck in this tiny house in the hills with two tiny electric heaters in it. Gonna have to bake cookies or something to get the oven going so can get warm. UGH!

[DallasRED]

The weather is crazy. It was in the 30's here last night and on Sunday the high is 86

[PcsCharli]

surepip, on 11 April 2012 - 09:45 AM, said:

This is not all bad though.

Other than squash, cukes, and a half a bed of beans, everything else we have in the garden right now will enjoy the cooler weather and will hold for that much longer.

Lettuce, arugula, onions, broccoli, snow peas, sugar snaps, spinach, romaine, etc.

And, my 2 beds of potatoes will set more tubers with the cold night time temps.

Luckily we have not put out tomatoes and peppers etc. in the ground.

i was wondering about my potatoes!never planted them before, and they are just starting to grow. Hope they'll be ok. i've taken in all of the annuals i haven't planted, and the ones i did plant are very close to the house. i think they will be ok.

[lowrider]

Mine are covered, again.

Hopefully this will be the worst night.

Good luck everyone!

[LPPT]

lowrider, on 11 April 2012 - 06:56 PM, said:

Mine are covered, again.

Hopefully this will be the worst night.

Good luck everyone!

I put down 10 sheets when I got home, the wind is calmed down so I am a little worried.

[KRM]

Ours are covered.

[Gleemp]

So my nipple tomatoes I should cover??

[ButterflyLion]

KRM, on 10 April 2012 - 05:50 PM, said:

We planted everything on Saturday, They came from a FABULOUS Greenhouse in Douglasville.

Is it a place that sells plants? What is the name?