See what our temperatures are plunging to? It
never freezes here this time of year! Oh, we had a low of 30F back in 1986, which set a record for May, but for all intents and purposes we should be well into hot weather veggies planting time.
Isn't that crazy....from a low of 31 early tomorrow morning to a high of 92 on Monday!
Keep your fingers crossed that Jack Frost doesn't find my garden.
I'm going to cross my fingers and toes!!!
ReplyDeleteAnd anything else you can think to cross, Robin!
Deletelol, there is an evil part of me that feels somewhat vindicated for holding out on planting my tomatoes this long...
ReplyDeleteOn the other hand, you better pick up some plastic sheeting! Nothing like the panic of a late frost to force you to get creative, right?
Fingers are crossed that the weathermen are wrong like usual.
Anywhere, I started outside with some sheets, then decided I'd mutilate the green beans if I tried to cover the peppers. Decided to chance it, because we're usually about 5 degrees above the forecast. I did bring all the potted tomatoes and peppers inside...my kitchen looks like a forest tonight!
DeleteA "food forest"! Fingers crossed for no bad freeze. Jeesh, a freeze is so far off OUR radar (like next NOV or DEC!) I can't even imagine. Hang in there and keep us posted!!
DeleteWe are taking a dive too with the temperature. I brought in my meyer lemon--unbelievable. Hopefully we will all be ok with our gardens. This weather is really rough on tomatoes.
ReplyDeleteTomato Thymes, fingers crossed your garden escapes as well! My tomatoes are doing exceptionally well, it would be terrible to lose them or even have them set back.
DeleteMan, no one needs fluctuations like that.
ReplyDeleteStefaneener, you mean like a 40 degree difference from day to night time temps? Poor veggies won't know if they're coming or going.
DeleteWe were 97 on Sunday and had a high of 59 on Monday. We have been lucky and stayed in the low 40's at night. The weather this year is crazy. Let us know how low your temps get - My fingers are crossed!
ReplyDeleteChristy, it's been a crazy spring. Our temps have fluctuated greatly...we've had days in the 80s and days in the 50s, up and down and up and down.
DeleteIt was warm and drizzly here all morning, then we left about 2:30 to make the hour's drive to my son's house. I dozed on the way, and when we got there found a blue sky, a stiff breeze, and much cooler, drier air. How did that happen so quickly? Hope your plants do well. We had only a whiff of frost earlier this spring, and it got my two tomato plants. Other plants all around were fine, but there was something vulnerable about those tomatoes.
ReplyDeleteDianefaith, it's my tomatoes I worry about most. I have so many different varieties, and they are such exceptionally healthy plants and already showing growth since I set them out. I do think my "Tomato Alley" is in a nice, warm little micro climate and should be safe....I sure hope so!
DeleteI've learned that the weather will do crazy things when you finally start to trust it.
DeleteThe world of weather has gone mad! Here we are officially in a drought, and the streets are flooded!!!
ReplyDeleteOh wow, you are getting temp fluctuations like we have here. Tonight we are supposed to go down to 44 deg. This is why I never put out my tomatoes until after Mother's Day. I hope Jack Frost is kinder to you than that b*** Mother Nature!
ReplyDeleteI can't even imagine 90's . Freezing temps, oh yea....that 's all part of it here, but 90's?????
ReplyDeletePut Mr. Granny out in the garden tonight. If he's like most men, he's full of hot air anyways! That will save your garden.
LOL!!
Good luck Granny. I hope they all live for you. But that is just crazy weather. Well sort of. I grew up in the mountains of Colorado. There it could get into the 100s during the day and get really cold at night. I've had it snow on me every month there somewhere in the mountains (luckily not where my folks live). I remember getting snowed on twice in July in the mountains. You just can't trust that weather. Now I live near the ocean. It moderates everything. Not as cold in the winter. Not as hot in the summer.
ReplyDeleteoh my.. Mother Nature is really throwing us a rolercoaster this year. I hope no damage from frost to any of your plants so we'll keep fingers crossed.
ReplyDeleteThat is a crazy temperature difference. I do hope the predicted lows are wrong, but it is better to be safe than sorry.
ReplyDeleteTell me about it! All available sources say that May 8th is the "last frost date" for my area. So sure enough, the past two nights (May 8th and 9th) it has gone down to freezing both nights. After several weeks with no frost. Grrr! I am going to have to "up-pot" my tomatoes this weekend, instead of planting them out like I should be doing at this time. Looks like I'll have 30 one-gallon tomato pots huddling together under my basement grow lights. Moving them outside on warm afternoons will take on a whole new dimension of effort...
ReplyDeleteOh My! I hope that forecast changes for the better and SOON!
ReplyDeleteGran - your title made me laugh and not because I don't feel your pain. In fact, I'm sure most of us know exactly your pain. I've been veggie gardening now for three years and never in my life have I paid this close of attention to the weather.
ReplyDeleteDid everyone survive?
ReplyDeleteThanks to all of you who crossed your fingers, toes, legs and whatever else you crossed....it did not freeze last night!
ReplyDeleteSue, I tried to set Mr. Granny up out there, where he could blow hot air, but he said he's never been allowed in the garden before so I was out of luck.
WOW! But ours are almost as bad...
ReplyDeleteLinda, quite a fluctuation of temperatures, huh?
DeleteWe had the same crazy thing happen about 2 weeks ago, it got down to 39 for 2 nights, amazingly the tomatoes took it like champions, I hope yours do the same!
ReplyDeleteErin, they're looking good today, but they have been outside 24/7 for about three weeks now so they're pretty tough!
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