T wrote:
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I have nothing to cover them with

no old light blankets, sheets? buckets, pots, or
pans?

if you are really worried you can heat up some
rocks and put them in there. though you have to
be sure not to fry your plants too.

i don't have any experience with watering to
save from frosts. i have one experience with
putting things over plants and it didn't matter
much as the peppers dropped all their leaves
anyways, the tomato plants seemed a bit more
tolerant but i wouldn't count on that. what
happened after that the pepper plants regrew
their leaves and the tomato plants survived
and we had a decent crop all around.

i don't plant early, except things i have extra
seeds and can afford to risk it. 3 weeks is way
too early for warm season plants IMO.

we have frost in the forecast for later this week.
perhaps my first planting of peas won't make it or
not. we'll see...


good luck!


songbird