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Old 26-03-2006, 06:05 PM posted to austin.gardening
OmManiPadmeOmelet
 
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Default Freeze warning tonight

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"Jonny" wrote:

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Put up the swimming pool floats and get out the thermal underwear.

My pear tree just finished blooming :-(

Okra and green beans partially destroyed. Some survived. Planted just
west
of some juniper trees. Temps just before the sun came over the trees is
what did it. No direct sun radiation in the early sunrise hours.

A 100 ft further west is another garden plot. Very little morning shade
from trees. Lettuce, spinach, and tomatoes did not suffer here.

All are seedlings 3 weeks young. Live just west of Wimberley area.


Doof.

No plants outdoors until the first of April!
There is nearly always a freeze in March!

I'll start planting the first part of next month.



Sounds like a "told you so", though you never did. Local meteorologists and
TV weather guys beg to differ with your freeze possibility assessment.


No, it's not an "I told you so", it's annual weather wisdom I learnt
from my parents. :-) 'specially mom who regularly used "the farmers
almanac" for planting schedules.

Also personal observation from year to year... It does not always
happen, but mid to late March freezes/frosts are not all that uncommon.
I've lived in the Austin area now for 23 years.
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Peace, Om.

"My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch." -Jack Nicholson