Tomorrow night's freeze on vegetable plants?

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No way to cover everything

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Sorry for your loss.

Turn on sprinkler system about midnight. Keeps the frost off. You may be ok. Too much water ok. Frost not ok.

suppose to be 27 here in south MS. Covered everything I could. Really sucks. Have Mulberry tree that is loaded from a very early blooming. Too big to cover of course. And mid-80's for a couple days after this hell freeze too. One brightside is I procrastinated planting the regular tomatoes/peppers/cukes so I will just move them inside.

It will either be near or breaking a record low.

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I’m covering everything with tarps, towels, 5 gallon buckets, anything really.

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I am doing the same.

My problem is my satsuma tree has blooms. And I don't have enough tarps to cover both. The Satsuma is pretty big and don't want to loose a years production of satsumas.

Does walmart have tarps are will I need to drive all the way to lowes or somewhere to get tarps?

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Didn’t your pawpaw tell you not to. Plant anything till after Easter.

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I've heard this before and no one can explain to me how a holiday and the climate are linked.

Easter can be from March 22 to late April. So March 22 would be good one year and April 2 not ok the next?

It really is a guess when starting seeds as to how the weather is going to be. At some point the plants need to go in the ground.

I heard don't plant til the pecan trees bloom.

There's a huge pecan tree across the road from us. It hasn't bloomed yet. Everything else has.

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I've heard this before and no one can explain to me how a holiday and the climate are linked.

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It’s old wives tale nonsense. Easter can fall anywhere from March 22nd to April 25th. In south Louisiana if you wait until after April 25th to plant you are way late. Then it’ll be a battle against heat and insects along with lower yields.

It’s better to use your location’s average last frost date in combination with the extended forecast. Most years you will be right. But in the event of a late freeze anomaly like the one we are experiencing be prepared to cover everything.

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Pecan trees bloom?

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leaf out

I’m hoping the sunshine today will warm the soils back up a bit. There’s too much new growth at my place to even think about trying to cover everything up.

Looks like only a couple hours below 30 in Hammond so I’m going to just hope for the best.

Luckily I had only planted 1/3 of my garden. I dug up a couple of tomatoes and just covered the rest. We'll see how it goes.