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Garden Master
The Weather Service changed their forecast after I went to bed last night. But, I was ready for 'em -- up before 3am!
Supposedly, it was going to be a 30F morning but when I checked, the forecast had been changed to a low of 27! Off I went - arriving at the garden 20 miles away, setting up the sprinkler pipe and running water by 4:40. An hour and half later, I had everything covered with 1/8" of ice :/!
Weather Underground has a volunteer about 1 mile from the garden. His thermometer showed a low of 26.8.
My theory is that if I don't break the plants, ice is better than nothing. I don't know tho' . . . for sure, it would have been better to just drive the frost off them.
There was a good deal of reflection off the ice and the light was very flat across the ground. That may explain the almost total lack of green in the photo. It wasn't quite that bad. These are snapdragons but the asters had suffered the most from the wind the last 2 days - yeah, big double whammy , gusts up to 59mph followed by frost. We'll see, the aster leaves were still alive when I left at sunrise . . .
Oh, and if you think that ground has a lot of rocks - wait until I've run that sprinkler more than 90 minutes out of the season. Then, you'll see rocks!
Steve
Supposedly, it was going to be a 30F morning but when I checked, the forecast had been changed to a low of 27! Off I went - arriving at the garden 20 miles away, setting up the sprinkler pipe and running water by 4:40. An hour and half later, I had everything covered with 1/8" of ice :/!
Weather Underground has a volunteer about 1 mile from the garden. His thermometer showed a low of 26.8.
My theory is that if I don't break the plants, ice is better than nothing. I don't know tho' . . . for sure, it would have been better to just drive the frost off them.
There was a good deal of reflection off the ice and the light was very flat across the ground. That may explain the almost total lack of green in the photo. It wasn't quite that bad. These are snapdragons but the asters had suffered the most from the wind the last 2 days - yeah, big double whammy , gusts up to 59mph followed by frost. We'll see, the aster leaves were still alive when I left at sunrise . . .
Oh, and if you think that ground has a lot of rocks - wait until I've run that sprinkler more than 90 minutes out of the season. Then, you'll see rocks!
Steve