The Arctic blast was going to deliver quite the blow to our gardens, so we had to try and save what we could before we experienced 5 days of abnormally cold weather here in south Georgia.
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Iost about 30%in hightunnel got to 6 here central Arkansas
Northwest Louisiana here, it got down to 8 degrees. I lost most of the plants in my raised bed gardens. Spinach, brussel sprouts, mustard greens, carrots, beets along with all of my brassicas. Onions look horrible but I expect them to bounce back. My collards look bad but they may make a comeback. My multiplying onions and onion chives got hit really hard, hoping they come back. English peas were just starting to produce. My strawberries were the only thing that wasn’t affected. There is always next season. But it sure has been sad seeing so many plants dying in my garden. I’m anxious to see how your garden faired.
I covered some of my plants but it did no good.
Lost my 8 types of Winter greens and tubers here in Louisiana. Not trying again until Feb. I recently moved and at least now I know where I need to set up my greenhouse. Pines block too much of the low Winter sun in my yard. I`m converting my camper bedroom to a grow room for some guaranteed food like quick bok choy and romaine lettuce because I`m on a fixed income far from stores and can`t drive due to my medical condition and medicines. And maybe my greenhouse can help with some things outside. I`ll put a heater in it.
Lazy Dog Farms Do y`all still sell those multiplying onions? Or do you know a decent place to get them from an American business?
My broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage and Brussel sprouts and other plants survived 10F low the first night, then two nights in the teens. I basically built a heated greenhouse over my raised beds with agribon 30, trash cans, 5 gallon buckets, 4 mil plastic and fence stakes to hold it down. I turned the heat on at night and to my surprise most of it survived. I'm glad to still have a garden and to have the knowledge of how to get through it if it happens again. it can be done. Now it will be in the 70s for a week at least and things will grow. I'm pretty happy how it worked out.
4:00 PM, Saturday, December 31, 2022, a date which will live in Infamy! – hope your title of this feed isn't prophetic (or maybe I secretly am hoping). Lets get this nasty weather over with, we've got Important things to do. We need to see if a Bull Dawg can open a really tough Buckeye.
My raised beds came through. I used hoops, sheets and blankets with a 200watt bulb in each bed. My cucumbers look fantastic!
Lost my loquats, lemons, strawnerry plants, my tomatillos, my tomatoes, and my peppers. I think my onions, celery, sweet taters, taters, carrots, and garlic will rebound.
Hope your garden fared ok. In West Tennessee we lost everything with the exception of maybe Brussel sprouts. I'm just beside myself. It was 0 degrees with minus 18 windchill and at least 2 inches of snow and ice. We covered everything with greenhouse plastic but it got too cold too fast. On the upside, it's almost time to start some spring seeds.
Well Travis: Here is our 9a Northwest Florida Update in Pensacola:
The lettuce is almost toast, most of the beets didn’t make it, but the celery and leftover sage from the summer did! Covered this plot with painter’s clear white tarp & heated with incandescent white Christmas lights. It worked!!! In other news; A small bit of damage to a few onions but I have transplants to replace them. Covered what remaining cauliflower and broccoli we didn’t harvest and it made it through ok. We used regular tarps and incandescent Christmas lights on the collards, brussel sprouts and cabbage and it worked also. I didn’t have a lot of hoops to use so I used bamboo poles, bricks, and ground spikes to hold down the tarp. QUESTION: Other than watering what do you suggest In fertilizer will help the plants rebound from this type of freeze?
I lost two small plants that were uncovered in my screened patio (green onion and chard). Everything else seems to be surviving. We are still getting 20 degree nights so it will be a few days before a final look can happen.
Hello Travis please watch Gardening with Leon on YouTube. He is a good man in one of his shows he explains how to add layers of fabric to gaine more protection on your plants I think the pepers will not work you need to add more hoops higher up and put the thirty on that. Not touching the fabrics together. So there is are trapped in between.
we got down to 14 degrees in Zone 8B and stayed in the mid to high 20's for the following 4 nights. I built fully enclosed 6mil Hoophouse covers over 4 of my 10'x5' raised beds with 1/2" PVC as a frame. It saved my red creole onions, some lacinato kale and full bed of 1015 onions, although some took a hit for sure. I harvested back all of my mature collard plants and double wrapped the stalks in heavy bath towels and they did fine. The carrot beds under the plastic did fine as well. I had just planted several rows of lettuce starts and just laid a double folded bath towel directly on the ground over the plants they did fine. My broccoli and cauliflower sustained a lot of leaf burn even under the fully enclosed plastic, but they pulled through. The wind was absolutely brutal coming off the lake…gusting to 60 MPH. Not sure anything would have survived that without the heavy duty plastic. Today it was 77 degrees and I succession planted 6 rows of carrots and a dozen old timey blue collard plants I had been saving from the freeze in the garage.
I’m in North Alabama, it got down to 5 degrees. Then it snowed. 😢 I covered my greens and carrots but they got bit hard and are mushy. I think I’ll leave everything and see what comes back.
It wasn't that hard of a cold spell, here in Minnesota, only -25, no big deal, actual temp.. I even went over to my parents to blow snow, and yes it was windy we had 40 mph wind gusts, most of the wind was 15-25 mph. I used to walk to school in -35 F… and walk home… we get weather like that down there up here in may.. sometimes the high-school kids up here wear shorts in April here when it gets up to 35 F. Or we used to back in the day 20 yrs ago
My garden, consisting of four tomato plants from suckers, did extremely well in my enclosed porch with a space heater. They’ve even grown a few tomatoes, so far! 🍅🍅 They’re also 10-12 feet tall. What a fun experiment it’s been so far this winter in our high desert of southern Utah! Thanks for sharing your winter experiences with us all, and good luck for your produce! 🌱🥦🌱
Here in our area of Texas we went on ahead and harvested our cabbage, glad we did, didn't get above freezing for 3 days. Lost the carrots, maybe some of the younger onions but the garlic and shallots look like they made it.
had all plots in cover crops which even that took a hard hit for the cereal rye, vetch, radishes, clover
My Brussels sprouts, cauliflower and onions all look rough. Pretty much everything I couldn’t bring into the garage is gone even though covered. It got down to 13 here in zone 8a.
Northeast Georgia was 5°F one day with 19°for the high…the other cold day we never made it above freezing either. I thought frost fabric and plastic might work, no. My pea's had their first blooms but my preparation was no match for those temps and that wind was brutal. Fortunately this isn't my first year fall/winter gardening or I would be really discouraged. You did give some good information about the greens. I don't know if some of the spinach will come back or if the carrots will pull through but lettuce, pea's and beet's are gone to mush. Most of what lived was in the middle of the bed. Next time I think I will harvest all I can. Can I just leave the roots and leaves to compost in the bed? Like you said it's supposed to be 70 this weekend do you think I could plant some more pea's, spinach and maybe the beet's will come back? Or replant? Thank you for your informative videos. It's amazing how different one state can be from top to bottom. Habersham county ranges from 6b to 8a, elevation makes a difference. Hope you had a great Christmas and you guys have a Happy New Year!!
Covered with 4 degree cloth. Lows of 18, 18, 19, 23 light burn on collards, arugula, Savannah mustard, lettuce, radishes. A little more on beets & chard. No damage on parsley & cilantro. I think almost all will survive.
Cannot grow anything in Maine in winter. Its below freezing most of winter and windy….hopefully your garden will have some reprieve with the covers.
I put.a.string.of.c9 lights in 2 beds..one with. A.sheet
One with a.sheet and plastic.tarp
Third bed just a sheet .
The ones.with lights look like nothing happened.!!!!!
Every thing.else.died
I.went.and.bought more lights half price for next year!!!!!!!
i also did a test on onions..only.added leaves to one.area
Leaf area died like they were not.covered ..lost about third to half my onions.and garlic.
Those.lights worked wonders!!!
My onions almost dead, strawberries are hurting, all of my greens are liquid fertilizer now.
Outlook for the next 10 days is highs in the 60s lows in the 40s. Thanks nature.
Yup, it was cold! Everything I covered survived. The only thing I couldn't cover was Swiss chard and it froze. Back to 72 today, what a relief.
Seeing this on 28th. In FLORIDA covered gardens? Dead😔 animal waters frozen it is TOO cold 😢 supposed to be in high 50s today.im already sick of cold..luck to your gardens..p.s. Sheets do not work as covers 😕
Double layer frost protection from Drip depot worked all my cabbages survived. Had to use landscape fabric for my strawberries and it seemed to work.
Travis I’m 20 miles up the road from you and we hit 16 sat morning and 19 sun morning. Everything was uncovered and it ain’t looking to good . Carrots , broccoli, collards and onions lookin really bad . Collards and some onions may come back but time will tell . My one big surprise is that the mustard greens look completely fine . I did cover my young citrus trees with AG50 and then a tarp with some buckets of water and they look fine . Wish I could’ve covered the onions and carrot but beds were eat too big to do so .
Travis I’m 20 miles up the road from you and we hit 16 sat morning and 19 sun morning. Everything was uncovered and it ain’t looking to good . Carrots , broccoli, collards and onions lookin really bad . Collards and some onions may come back but time will tell . My one big surprise is that the mustard greens look completely fine . I did cover my young citrus trees with AG50 and then a tarp with some buckets of water and they look fine . Wish I could’ve covered the onions and carrot but beds were eat too big to do so .
Travis I’m 20 miles up the road from you and we hit 16 sat morning and 19 sun morning. Everything was uncovered and it ain’t looking to good . Carrots , broccoli, collards and onions lookin really bad . Collards and some onions may come back but time will tell . My one big surprise is that the mustard greens look completely fine . I did cover my young citrus trees with AG50 and then a tarp with some buckets of water and they look fine . Wish I could’ve covered the onions and carrot but beds were eat too big to do so .
In Atlanta, 7 degrees, lost broccoli and cabbage 😢
Covered the bok choi, carrots, lettuce, and turnips.
I used mostly pinestraw, millet straw, and some cardboard boxes.
Everything faired well except a butterbean plant that made it this far into winter.
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i double covered my small square foot bucket garden that was inside an unheated palram greenhouse. I had agfab covering, and a tarp over them and im pretty sure the pak choi swiss chard and leaf lettuce died. the rosemary, garden sage, tyme, and kale look like it survived. it was -5 outside lol. im looking to replant this weekend
So glad we found your channel We are on a small homestead and started our channel and having fun learning. We've been gardening here in central Texas for over 30 years and wanted to share with others the things we've learned. We were on a large homestead but decided years ago to downsize so we could travel. Looking forward to watching your channel. God Bless. Mike
Those winter cover crops should be just fine…mine are still green after -35 degrees but they did have a little snow to blanket them
Thanks a lot Travis for the journey….💪awesome channel, great Gardener!! Very happy holidays and a super new year Man, Family!!
At 14.38, theres 3 kinds of lettuce in that bed. Can you tell me what kind they are?
My garden didn't make it at all and I'm pretty sure it's my fault. I heard that if you water everything in really well it should help insulate things. I was sick all week with a fever so I hadn't really stayed on top of my watering situation and I panicked just before the freeze and ran out there with a fever and started watering (I don't have drip irrigation) everything and it was too late at night to dry off before the temperature dropped. My collards literally had icicles on them! Everything would probably have been way better off if I had done nothing. Looks like my collards and kale will come back and my elephant garlic and walking onions are fine. But my carrots, leeks and sweet onions are questionable. My chard and dill are gone for sure. Please tell me my onions and carrots will come back. I've yet to successfully grow onions. I definitely have short day onions this year. This was my year! I'm so bent. I want to grow onions so bad. I promised my wife if I just bought onion plants of a short day variety I could grow some dadgum onions. This cold weather is making a total liar out of me. I don't know that she'll let me spend the money again next year lol. Had to order them jokers from Dixon Dale and she wasn't happy. But I couldn't get any seeds to sprout and the sets you can buy locally are intermediate at best. I really need my carrots and onions to make a comeback
Do you use just one fertilizer or you different on other plants
Travis can you provide a link to the best place we can get those AG 30 & higher frost protection blankets?