It’s 2:00 am and it’s 35° out. I spent most of the day at work on Friday protecting plants from tonight’s possible frost. I brought the most tender plants inside our “garage” area. I also brought in the 6 racks of new annuals. Then starting at around 7:30 pm, I started covering the vegetable plants and all the rest of the annuals with frost cloth. I was briefly interrupted from that job when a plant truck arrived with 4 racks of perennials. I had to check those in. Luckily, they can handle the frost if it comes. I didn’t finish covering the plants until about 10:00. It was a lot of plants and the breeze picked up and kept uncovering things. I dread the thought of what I’ll likely see when I get to work Saturday afternoon. I expect that nobody will have put the plants back outside so I’ll get to do it all myself. I expect the frost cloth to be removed from the plants and left in piles or stuffed in shopping carts waiting for me to properly fold and put back in the battery room where we store them. Nobody helped cover the plants and I don’t expect any help with anything on Saturday either.
When I got home from work, I had my own plants to cover. I had some tomato plants in big flower pots and green beans in planters. But it only took a few minutes to cover that stuff. Luckily, I didn’t plant any tomatoes out in my main garden at Mark’s place yet. I plan on doing that next week. This had better be our last frosty night (hopefully, there won’t be any frost) until late fall.
It’s 2:00 am and it’s 35° out. I spent most of the day at work on Friday protecting plants from tonight’s possible frost. I brought the most tender plants inside our “garage” area. I also brought in the 6 racks of new annuals. Then starting at around 7:30 pm, I started covering the vegetable plants and all the rest of the annuals with frost cloth. I was briefly interrupted from that job when a plant truck arrived with 4 racks of perennials. I had to check those in. Luckily, they can handle the frost if it comes. I didn’t finish covering the plants until about 10:00. It was a lot of plants and the breeze picked up and kept uncovering things. I dread the thought of what I’ll likely see when I get to work Saturday afternoon. I expect that nobody will have put the plants back outside so I’ll get to do it all myself. I expect the frost cloth to be removed from the plants and left in piles or stuffed in shopping carts waiting for me to properly fold and put back in the battery room where we store them. Nobody helped cover the plants and I don’t expect any help with anything on Saturday either.
When I got home from work, I had my own plants to cover. I had some tomato plants in big flower pots and green beans in planters. But it only took a few minutes to cover that stuff. Luckily, I didn’t plant any tomatoes out in my main garden at Mark’s place yet. I plan on doing that next week. This had better be our last frosty night (hopefully, there won’t be any frost) until late fall.