Freezin’ in April
Work has been a bear recently. Please bear with me as I catch up!
Sunday and Monday nights, as seems to be somewhat reliable for South Texas (two years ago we had an ice storm…), we had a bit of a freeze. At first they were expecting a major frost, which would’ve been bad, but they lifted the frost advisories after a while and just said that the temps would get down to freezing. Since it was going to be cold two nights in a row (Sunday and Monday), I was a bit worried about my more tender plants.. the tomatoes and the home-seeded peppers, mainly.
I usually keep a bit of a mulch berm around my tomato plants to help hold moisture in the soil near them but to keep the leaves from dripping down into the moist mulch. And by the way, I thoroughly wish I was using home-made mulch here, but my yard’s a bit short right now on mulching materials unless I want to mulch with dead thistle or curled dock…
Since it was going to be cold, I grabbed a bag of extra bark dust and just built the berm up a bit and then over the top of the tomato plant.
Piled up mulch over the tender plants.
Since I was watering in some fertilizer on the lawn, I made sure that I got the mulch berms wet when the sun was still on them, where possible. The warm, wet mulch will retain heat better, hopefully…
That's my Super 100 plant under there.
The container plants were easy to keep from getting frost-bitten…
Indoor plant storage... yep, in a dog crate.
The crate’s door closes, which keeps the dogs from getting into the things they like after I go to bed. (And it keeps them from tipping the water jug, which they’ve been known to do for fun.)
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