On Mon, 17 Mar 2014 08:05:15 -0500, "Terry Coombs"
wrote:

Fran Farmer wrote:
On 16/03/2014 12:40 PM, David Hare-Scott wrote:
Terry Coombs wrote:
I think this is gonna work ! 10 of 14 plants appear to have new
growth - I was worried because they got lightly frosted the very
night I planted them . Finally , some strawberries in my berry own
garden !

The strawberries I have will take a hard frost, the other 4 may yet
shoot.

That's my experience with strawberries too. We get temps down to
-9degreesC and the strawb plants have never seemed to be frost
damaged.

I may be a bit gunshy , these are the first I've gotten to actually grow .
Right now it's about 23° here and mine are covered . I had to improvise , I
put a foam plate upside down over each plant ant held it down with a small
rock .

Here is the note I made when we got freezing temps in April 2007. All
of the plants survived even if some of the berries didn't.

"April 7,8,9,10 temperatures got down to mid to low 20s. Beets were
covered with thin row cover and most did not survive. The other cold
weather crops mostly survived. The strawberries that were covered
with blankets from the first night seem fine. The ones that were not
covered the berries froze."

We have been getting freezing rain here this morning. Hope the onions
survive. I'm not worried about the pea seeds.

Will get into the greenhouse when I can get down the steps from the
deck without breaking my neck.
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