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Old 10-04-2007, 03:32 PM posted to rec.gardens.edible
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Default Cold weather

On Apr 7, 7:40 pm, The Cook wrote:
Anyone else getting kicked by the unseasonable cold weather right now.
My broccoli and other cool weather plants were set out a week or so
ago. Tonight's low is predicted to be in the mid to low 20s. The
kiwi plants are already look done for this season. Hope that some of
the fruit trees survive.

Let me know. Misery loves company.

--
Susan N.

"Moral indignation is in most cases two percent moral,
48 percent indignation, and 50 percent envy."
Vittorio De Sica, Italian movie director (1901-1974)


I built a cloche (mini greenhouse) over my raised garden using PVC
pipe and clear plastic sheets on one and blue plastic tarpaulin over
the other. Our temperature went down into the low twenties. My newly
planted heirloom tomatoes all died but the carrots and beets that were
already established seemed to accelerate in growth. Newly planted
lettuce, carrots,beets and most of the bush beans also survived.