frost freese advisory 5/17/09

[ovendoctor]

for tonight temps around 30 degrees in lower Michigan

so cover them up for the over nite hours

Doc.

[firebird]

Holy cow! Frost in May??????

[ovendoctor]

Holy cow! Frost in May??????

yepper the big freeze tonight

going to try a new idea

placing canning jars over the tomatoes and let them grow

pick the tomatoes and the jars slap a lid and band on them and can them up

[been known to be a little on the RedNeck side]

[firebird]

I remember frost, had some in February :mrgreen:

[Micah68]

You put your tomatoes out already?

Our low was 27 last night. Sigh.

Even in the greenhouse we don't have the tomatoes out. Sigh.

Last year it snowed on June 3. Sigh.

In August I will be grateful for our altitude. Honest!

[packyderms_wife]

Holy cow! Frost in May??????

yep it was here last night, then it rained today when the forcast was for a clear pleasant day! Who knows maybe we'll have a blizzard next week? :shock:

K-

[Micah68]

going to try a new idea

placing canning jars over the tomatoes and let them grow

pick the tomatoes and the jars slap a lid and band on them and can them up

[been known to be a little on the RedNeck side]

Hey! That MIGHT work. We did that with squash. The children carefully slipped the blossoms inside decoratively shaped bottles and as the squash ripened it took on the shape of the bottles. We had planned to break the bottles off and eat the squash, but I was afraid there would be glass slivers, so we poured vinegar in and capped it, thinking it would keep. I didn't process it, though and after a few months we got tired of looking at them and through them out. I got the idea online...will go look.

[LONER]

Yes, there is a prediction of frost and a low of 37 tonight in the Ozarks.
Someone needs to tell Al Gore! I have lived here about 20 years and never seen frost in the later part of May. Last frost date here is generally accepted as around April 20th, occassionally April 30th....but NEVER in May!!

[ElGato]

We had some patchy frost here in Tn too. My garden is 7 miles from my home so I don't know how it faired. My cherry tomato on my patio did just fine though. It has since warmed up to 73 degrees. I think my plants will be ok. :-?

[meremortal]

Can I whine here?
I was so proud of myself that I got the garden tilled, cleaned up, looking great and planted on the 13th of may. heck the "frost day" USED to be may 15 for this part of IN. all that is left this morning are my "choker peas":sad:(snow peas) I will restart on friday...

[Micah68]

I am so sorry, MereMortal.....we've had that happen a few times and it is always such a blow.

[meremortal]

:-DThanks Micah, I just wanted to whine to those that would understand.
Last year with work being crazy, I got a LATE start, and it got hot so fast that my broccoli was all messed up (love broccoli) . when I got back from family vacation, (a BLESSING we had last year) the garden was a dried out mess.

SOOOOO, thinking I'd get "on it" this year, and.....

[Ms. American]

Unusually late frost? It's "global warming" lol. Somebody put some duct tape on Algores mouth before he invents something else we don't need????