Not Really Encouraged

[digitS']

. . . about next week's weather:

Those are predicted rainfall amounts during the early part of the week. We have snow melt flooding of the rivers right now but, that isn't my gardening concern. The amount of cloud cover and cool temperatures may make hardening-off of plants from the greenhouse difficult. High temperatures on thru the week show that we will just break 60F for highs. The biggest problem for me is that the greenhouse is overflowing!!

Overflow means - overflow. I need to get things outdoors or they are left in the shade under benches or in the garage. Having the older tomatoes in the unheated tunnel last night has me on pins & needles this morning. It was colder than predicted & windier than predicted: with 35 & gusts above 25mph . . . I'm still scared to open the door even with the sunrise!

Om Mani Padme Hung. May all beings remain free from suffering and the causes of suffering . . .

Steve

 

[SweetMissDaisy]

Well, I feel for you and your plants, but if that rain truly does come my way in Central TX, I'll be out in the garden jumping for JOY!!!
Supposed to be 85 to 90 for the next 10 days, according to our 10-day forecast. Boo.
Hit 92 on the porch yesterday. UGH.

 

[digitS']

Well Daisy,

The weather service was right, that it would finally hit 50 at noon. But, there's a 15mph wind! If'n this air was moving in the right direction -- you'd have it there by tomorrow afternoon. As it is, Lewistown, Montana has snow right now and that is expected to continue right thru Sunday night!

With Great Big clouds in a blue sky - the temperature in my greenhouse has been absolutely nuts!! I need to be out there every 30minutes, it seems.

Nearly half the plants are on the floor - out of the sunlight.

On a positive note: my tomatoes were just fine when I finally went into the tunnel to check on them. They've had a week of being in there so a chilly night wasn't too much of a shock. Howsomeever . . . it is supposed to be every bit as cold tonight. What to do, what to do? Take 'em out and put them in the garage? Yeah, better.

Steve

 

[silkiechicken]

Good luck with the plants. Nothing that bad here, but a wind blew through and any plants on the railing commited suscide at our apartment and fell to the neighbors below. They must hate us.... or me. LOL


As for cool weather, we had two days of summer heat in the 80's last weekend, lots of novice gardeners planted their summer plants... that shouldn't be planted till at least the second week of may. I was even tempted to put things outside... but resisted. Due to a huge bug infestation from bringing plants from outside back into the apartment, the final ultimatum is once it goes out the doors, it can never come back in....

 

[SweetMissDaisy]

We have a LOT of wind here too .... but it's HOT and DRY wind from the south.
In fact, I'm headed out right now to give things a look over and make sure the younger plants aren't getting to dried out.

 

[Kassaundra]

We have a LOT of wind here too .... but it's HOT and DRY wind from the south.
In fact, I'm headed out right now to give things a look over and make sure the younger plants aren't getting to dried out.

Same here, I keep having to water since the plants are so young, and that wind is drying things out so badly.

 

[momofdrew]

We had rain over night but today we had crazy high winds which dried everything out...