I'm afraid it will damage my new growth and all those beautiful blooms on my plums will drop off without producing fruit :( Maybe covering them in burlap will help save them. Raised beds can be covered with plastic for couple of days so that should work out. Sometimes you gamble and win and sometimes you lose.
Incoming Frost!
This is exactly what was I afraid off.. Unusual heat wave brought everything up to bloom and now we have hard frost. I'm afraid it will damage my new growth and all those beautiful blooms on my plums will drop off without producing fruit :( Maybe covering them in burlap will help save them. Raised beds can be covered with plastic for couple of days so that should work out. Sometimes you gamble and win and sometimes you lose.
I'm afraid it will damage my new growth and all those beautiful blooms on my plums will drop off without producing fruit :( Maybe covering them in burlap will help save them. Raised beds can be covered with plastic for couple of days so that should work out. Sometimes you gamble and win and sometimes you lose.
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UGH! I've been fearing this too. Our temps look about 4 degrees higher here but I'm still going to pull the fig tree inside and cover up as much as possible with row covers. Hopefully it won't hurt the perennials :( good luck with your plums.
ReplyDeleteThey just changed it and now it shows 27 :( ugh. It's a good thing I didn't transplant my other seedlings or they'd be all dead.
DeleteI've heard the damage comes at 28F, so you might be safe. Around here, they spray the trees with a light mist of water, which supposedly protects them as it freezes. I have never tried it, but you might check on it with a google search. I have used sheets to cover the tender trees (small ones, of course) and tomatoes. Much better than using plastic, which I've had actually damage them if it touches the foliage.
ReplyDeleteUh-oh, just read the 27F comment. String Christmas tree lights all over everything? I've even heard to tent stuff with the plastic (not touching foliage) and setting 2-3 votive candles inside for heat.
I have burlap on standby to cover my flowering plums and some older beds. Thankfully there is nothing in new beds that is in danger yet.
DeleteCovering things with burlap should help. A few degrees below 32f should not pose a problem, the problem comes when there is a prolonged period of time below freezing. I've never has fruit trees to try and protect, but Graany's christmas light suggestion with a blanket sounds like a good one.
ReplyDeleteI hope that it's a short cold spell and it won't do too much damage. time will tell.
DeleteI agree with Granny, I have always heard that a "hard freeze" can kill plants in as little as 5 minutes of exposure. The cutoff of what a hard freeze is 28. Good luck.
ReplyDeleteWe just got alert for deep frost - 23 at night :( I don't think even row covers will help this time.
ReplyDeleteOh, no. Well, I'd cover whatever I could, just in case. I know the temps in my garden are never as low as the weather man says, by around 5 degrees or more.
DeleteSimilar story here, though our low should be about 28 degrees. Yuck.
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