Ack Frost!

[Rhiannon Feimorgan]

I woke up this morning to a layer of frost all over everything! I've been checking the forecast just in case every night so I can cover things up if it looks like it might get too cold but i have company over and I forgot to do that last night. Sure enough frost.

The sun wasn't on the garden yet so I turned the sprinkler on. I've heard that running the sprinkler on the frosted plants can help them survive.

Wish me luck. I'll be soooo sad if all my tomatoes die.

[Talula Fairie]

Frost in late June? Man, that sucks

[Rhiannon Feimorgan]

I live in northern BC so we can get frost at any time of the year (yes that does suck) I'm usually really careful but this one slipped by me.

On the upside, the sprinkler seems to have done the trick. There doesn't seem to be any frost damage.:

[Talula Fairie]

Originally Posted by Rhiannon Feimorgan

I live in northern BC so we can get frost at any time of the year (yes that does suck) I'm usually really careful but this one slipped by me.

On the upside, the sprinkler seems to have done the trick. There doesn't seem to be any frost damage.:

I always muse to myself that people who garden in areas like yours must have a REALLY green thumb!

I'm so glad the sprinkler worked :

[Rhiannon Feimorgan]

Originally Posted by Talula Fairie

I always muse to myself that people who garden in areas like yours must have a REALLY green thumb!

I'm so glad the sprinkler worked :

In a lot of ways it's not so bad, other than the unexpected frosts. We don't get the intense heat that you probably do so things don't dry out as fast. I'll often go weeks without needing to water the garden. I can grow lettuce and spinach without it bolting in July and August and the really long northern summer days mean that everything grows faster than it would at lower latitudes. There are some things I can't grow at all, like citrus trees unless I grow them in pots and move them inside for the winter but there is still a lot I can grow.

The worst is that I can only get in one crop a year except for very quick growing things like radishes or salad greens. In a good year, I can start planting frost tender things at the end of April beginning of May, assuming the snow is gone by then (It wasn't gone this year until mid May) and the garden is more or less done by the end of September maybe into the first week or two of October on a really good year. We usually have snow again by the end of October.

[Talula Fairie]

That's true, the intense heat does limit what I can grow...but then again, our growing season is so long that I can just grow the cooler weather crops at the beginning or towards the end of the season. And yeah, I have to water A LOT. Pretty much every other day or every third day. Sometimes everyday when the heat gets intense for a long time.