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Like a world away you are. Soil temp struggling past 50F here and we don't even have trees with leaves on them let alone anything growing in the garden. Not only we just had the Coldest 2nd half of April since 1800s but we had the coldest April max temp on record. Never passed 65° here this month.
I got this going on every day and evening like its November
We have suffered from a cold spring as well,but we did save most of our plants. We still have our heat on and would be using our fireplace but we ran out of propane. The good news: we have our first tomato. It is a little guy but at least we have one. Everything else seems to be doing fairly well this year.
In February I bought 2 tomato plants at big box store at the same time I started veggie seeds for my garden, including tomatoes. We've had really good spring weather in Charlotte North Carolina but at this point it looks like my seed-started tomatoes and the two store-bought ones are only 2 weeks apart from ripe cherry tomatoes. Interesting.
The store bought were 4" pots not 6 packs.
I'm growing veggies 3 different ways (new home/garden last fall): 1 straw bale, (10) 20 gallon grow bags and in the heavy clay garden. Straw bale has been fantastic, will do that again next season. Grow bags as good as straw bale growth but expensive to fill with potting mix (and getting delivered), clay garden tomatoes much smaller and slower growth along with collards and beans, lots of amending needed.
We have suffered from a cold spring as well,but we did save most of our plants. We still have our heat on and would be using our fireplace but we ran out of propane. The good news: we have our first tomato. It is a little guy but at least we have one. Everything else seems to be doing fairly well this year.
Rare late frost forecast here this weekend...and I have 400 tomato and pepper plants in the ground....grr
I wonder if you mean Albany, NY. We are a suburb town of Albany. Expected snow but nothing here. A couple of towns over had a dusting, though. Certainly cold, around freezing temps in the AM. High today in the low to mid 40s, and really windy. I’ve been covering some plants with a garden fabric, and my 4x8 bed that I have some lettuce in. The lettuce is growing well. Supposed to warm up next week.
After late hard freezes there will be no peaches this year. I walked the orchard that we plant a few things as row crops in the middles in and not a peach, plum, or cherry to be seen. It is still to cold to plant tender crops out now. Another heavy frost this morning after a hard freeze Saturday morning.
I wonder if you mean Albany, NY. We are a suburb town of Albany. Expected snow but nothing here. A couple of towns over had a dusting, though. Certainly cold, around freezing temps in the AM. High today in the low to mid 40s, and really windy. I’ve been covering some plants with a garden fabric, and my 4x8 bed that I have some lettuce in. The lettuce is growing well. Supposed to warm up next week.
I thought I had replied. Whoops. Yes, I meant Albany NY but you're right, not around Albany.. Southern Vermont did and that's not too far.. Check it out. I hope your stuff makes it through this cold spell. Problem is now we're close to June and any 80s can easily bolt our stuff. Really sucks how we never get good length of Spring for our cool crops
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