I knew that growing 9 citrus trees and 2 avocado trees in ground in North Carolina was a risk, and I knew it was only a matter of time until this day came. They tried to kill my garden, and they tried to kill my fruit trees. Here’s what happened:
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
0:00 My Garden Was Tested
2:19 This Is How Bad Things Got
3:40 My Cold Protection Methods
7:36 How My Older Fruit Trees Fared
10:29 How My Young Fruit Trees Fared
13:41 How My Winter Garden Fared
17:22 My Cold Damage Theory
19:22 Adventures With Dale
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0:00 My Garden Was Tested
2:19 This Is How Bad Things Got
3:40 My Cold Protection Methods
7:36 How My Older Fruit Trees Fared
10:29 How My Young Fruit Trees Fared
13:41 How My Winter Garden Fared
17:22 My Cold Damage Theory
19:22 Adventures With Dale
Greenhouses were invented for a reason.
Did it kill the gators and snakes ?
Laura Ingalls wrote about a severe winter in her time.
Drill and instal a heating element into your water tanks. You can remove them in the summer and install a plug if you use the tanks for other purposes
Looks great! Glad it all survived & thrived
Awwww
I’m close to you… I pulled my frost blanket off some of my lettuce the other day (I put one around them as they’re in an above ground pot on a vertical rack and I planted them a little bit late so they were still pretty small) and what do I find under the blanket.. looks like fungus gnats! Aaaaagggghh the kiss of death… won’t the colder weather kill those crazy things? Or is this pot destined to fail??
Believe me from the extreme heat and humidity there is much more damage…
This is probably a bad time to THANK YOU. You were my fig inspiration. I finally made my permanent transition to Thailand. After one week, I have Celeste fig cuttings with small leaves but no roots yet. I am going to continue with humidity lids and heavily filtered sunlight until I get roots, too. Then, slowly transition to more and more direct sunlight and bigger pots. I also have some cuttings from an unknown variety off of a sidewalk in Florida.
I am hoping for, as The Beatle song goes, "A Taste of Honey."
Thanks for all your tips, motivation, and enthusiasm ….
I am hoping your damage is minimal to manageable.
Okay thank you! I was wondering about this because I've been doing a lot of research on places that I might wanna settle down because New England and the Midwest is just too cold and expensive. NC seemed like a perfect place. Then this year you had the Hurricanes wipe out the mountains and then the research triangle has literally been colder than the midwest and New England!!! It's insane. Good to know this isn't usual
Have you tried any battery-powered things? There are battery powered heated pet beds, space heaters, even hand warmers that might be able to generate heat. Or what about putting a water heater in the tubs to keep them from getting cold? Just wondering if you have ever tried any of these methods. I know someone who used a heated blanket to save a young tree from a particularly nasty freeze.
Another idea I had was using one of those aluminum/metal blankets used by hikers/outdoors people to retain heat. They're thin but they are excellent at preventing heat conduction.
protecting the garden from harsh heat of summer and winter freezes can help save them.
Don't insult Mother Nature!
Next time be prepared!
Please stop with the mother nature, there is no mother nature there is only God the creator 😊
I’ve been following your techniques MG but I left my mandarins go unprotected along with my red lime. Everything is A-ok. Located in Myrtle Beach
i had 40mph wind gusts that were so aggressive!!! I was out in my PJ's in the middle of the night driving wood steaks through my fabric AND thick plastic.!!!
Will pool solar cover help ❤😊
😂😂😂 i knew were talking about Mother Nature 😂💚
Zones mean nothing. I live in zone 8 but I can’t grow citrus for shit it’s 5-10 degrees Celsius for 6 months on end just cuz I don’t get huge freezes doesn’t mean I can grow citrus too. I like this guy but he should focus less on zones in means almost nothing
I must not have been using the right row covers because all of my brassicas (except cabbage) and lettuces suffered terribly or died like your kale when we got our first really cold frost.. We had to harvest all of the broccoli and cauliflower. I was hoping to use them slowly over the winter but that didn’t work out.
Turns out climate change isn‘t a “myth” after all. 🤷🏾♂️ We’re all going to have to come up with more creative ways to adapt our gardens and lifestyles- this year, I had no fruit at all…zero. Trees covered with blossoms in a prematurely warm, early Spring, all got destroyed by a late final frost- what we call the Eisheiligen.
RIP mate, my heart goes out to you, for real.
The 3rd way the cold can damage is large temperature swings example 70's in the day and drops to the 20's in less than 24 hours
Great job with the protection. It was also good to see your most recently planted citrus and avocado seem to be doing well too!
Awesome to see your collards shaking the cold off. Here in Boston we have some back to back nights of 10 degrees coming. Its going to be a test for sure.
That damage in the abocado look like leafhooper marks
That is not my experience at 5:25. You should able to board up your plants, even evergreen, in a box with no sunlight whatsoever for the duration of winter and they will be fine. Zone pushers of tropicals do this all winter every winter at more northern latitudes and it works great. Palm trees, in particular, do not need any sunlight at all and still make it through winter.
Having those trees right against a sun facing wall makes a tremendous difference. The brick absorbs so much heat. Even if you had them covered the same they wouldn't do well in your climate without that wall.
Texas 8a Frost cloth over my hoops for my more vulnerable crops is working great.
Can you say something about cutting collards down to the ground for regrowth
Hi The Millennial Gardener How often do you water your Myer lemon tree and what fertilizer does it need? Please
I live inland 2 hours west and an hour east from Charlotte and you give me hope of growing avocados and Satuma! The two fruits I buy and would LOVE to grow! Thanks for the hope for my garden!!!
I live in the NC foothills. I have found plumbing heat tape works wonders keeping vulnerable plants form being damaged during excessive cold.
We had a week long cold snap here in Ohio in late November/early December & even though I had everything covered w/ agricultural fabric, my peas & Swiss chard took a hit. It got down as low as 15 degrees F at night with a wind chill of 0. Everything else took damage but I think it’s gonna recover okay. Your methods have been a life saver for my garden though!
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