Our first frost is here a month earlier than normal, and we’re not prepared to lose many of our warm-season plants that are still producing. Can we save them? Well, maybe not all of them — but we’ll try to save as many as we can.
Join us as we show you how we plan on protecting our backyard garden plants from the oncoming frost. We’ll be using a variety of techniques including frost protection cover, running a sprinkler all night, and crossing our fingers. 😂
We’ll also provide an update on our raised bed garden and try to determine why our transplants are doing so well but our direct-seeded plants aren’t. We think it had something to do with a really hard rain we had right after planting, but not 100% sure on that.
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25 Comments
How did everything survive?
Did the peas make it
This is the 26th did I miss several videos since the frost/freeze warning?
Good luck to you! Thanks for sharing your thoughts on how you deal with unexpected frost. Cheers!
Same here in Central Louisiana last week, think it was around 34°, my broccoli done great heads are about the size of softballs, burnt some leaves on the okra, and tomatoes only where the sheet was touching the leaves. Way early for a frost here in October, weather has been crazy this year for us!! ✌🏻
What is this thing called “frost”? We do not see that very often this way!
So glad everything faired better than expected and your hard work paid off!! Thanks so much for sharing!!
How come you don't deer or RODENT problems ? just ducks
Travis we had 29-30 degrees plus heavy frost. I got up around 4 am I started sprinkler at that when I saw temperature was headed towards freezing. I did save most. However lost zucchini, crookneck squash, watermelons, and blackberries(fruit). All other cool weather crops still showed frost burn. Having tall beds might hurt you! Best wishes to you!
We crossed our fingers hard. Luckily the wind blew and the frost didn't settle on anything. Had no real issues.
The garden looks beautiful. Fingers crossed that everything makes it!
I planted parsnips for the first time this year when I planted my carrots. No germination on the parsnips… Carrots popped up just fine but somewhere something went wrong with the parsnips.
I hope you can save most of your tender crops.
Outside Atlanta I’ve grown cilantro all winter without any covering. Parsley too.
the frost we got for 4 days didn't harm my potatoes:)
This video could have been shot at my garden in the fact that 1- the first frost always seems to sneak up on me 2- I am never fully prepared with supplies to make proper coverings 3- I am always running around like a crazy person trying to get everything protected at the exact time that I have other plans and don't really have the time to be gathering supplies and rigging something up!
I didn’t have anything hurt even tomatoes right up the road from you .
Here in Ohio my parsnips take over 3 weeks to germinate.
Here in Northern Missouri on September 20th it hit 100 degrees…. On September 28th we had 37 degrees and first frost in the low areas. Our first frost average is October 15th. On October 8th it got down to 25 degrees. I had planted some fall sweet corn and needed until the 15th to mature. So I was uneasy with a 25 degree morning. I used overhead sprinklers around 10pm and was going to do it again at 1am… Got up out of bed, went outside and turned on the water to sprinkle… NO WATER!… the line was already frozen. So I just crossed my fingers. Well, the corn didn't seem to be hurt at all. Ended up with a good crop and froze 42 packages of corn kernels on October 11th. My peppers got hit a little, but was able to pick a lot of Brazillian and Santa Fe Grande for hot sauce. (I had a bizzilian Brazillian peppers 😀).
Sounds like you might have dodged a bullet there, but good to see that you can deal when your hair's on fire. You're growing in so many different formats there, single row, panel trellis, raised beds, that it would be hard to have a single frost mitigation product close at hand. A roll or two of mid-weight Agribon rat-holed in the barn for such an occasion would help you sleep at night. It would be a crying shame to lose those baby limas, black beans, turmeric and peppers.
We had a wild frost last week. Only had to worry about potatoes. Just hilled them up extra high, made sure to water them well, and threw a blanket over them. Worked well. In fact, it seemed to help them as they are growing better now than before the frost.
We’ve had two frosts here in NW Oklahoma mid-October that got our second crop of summer squash & okra. After fighting the pests all summer long, craziness! God gave us quite an abundance in spite of the battles with nature. We are so thankful💗. Our carrots, rutabaga, cabbage & beets are all doing good but we are still battling the vicious voracious cucumber beetles!! They have eaten/damaged just about everything including all the herbs. It would be awesome if someone could share how they won this battle?? We have already tried DE, garlic & chilies, insecticidal soap. Any other ideas to remain organic??
Your row cover looks great! (It’s not a fashion show.) I hope you survived the frost well, if it actually came. (Hope it didn’t.)
Love your shirt, been there many times. Very close to home.
I lost my bush beans and my rattlesnake pole beans got burned but are trying to comeback. My Basil and peppers got burned but are still producing. I feel your pain. Hope you don't lose too much.
I woke up at 4:00 am and hosed down all the tender vegetables…. They all did well.
The only plants I covered here in Athens was pineapples and plumeria. The bananas ,squash, sweet potatoes and potatoes got burnt a little but peppers, okree and a few rouge tomatoes did fine. I wanted to see what could handle the light frost and the micro climates around the yard.