im so SAD!

We had a freeze last night not a first frost a first freeze! its 28 degrees right now and im crying like a baby!
I just hate this! There should be a garden pass over where you rub toad blood or something over your garden gate!!!=[
i covered up some things that are still in the ground but everything else is frozen crisp!
whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan!=(

This message was edited Monday, Oct 14th 1:58 PM

Toad Blood?????? LOL Maybe someone will sell it in the new member's store!!!!!!!


Let me go grab my box of puff's and I will cry with you!!!!!!

sue

gosh, it is sooooo hot here this a.m. balmy 72*..sigh..oh hey dori! how did I get on this thread, I thought I was posting on the Farm Life..snicker... so sorry about your freeze ...(ducking the tar ball being thrown my way)

How terrible martha. It just goes to show what a vast continent you all live on. Here in England our climate doesnt differ all that much wheveryou are, but we can get caught out with a frost if we are not careful

Dontcha just love that southern sympathy?! Duck Lisa!

No frost or freeze here as of yet...but we do have a nice crisp chill to the air this a/m It was suppost to be a cool 49* this a/m and I am wondering if it isn't a bit cooler out there! I had to have a jacket to get the kids on the bus!! I am not even ready for the cold weather!!! Sooo much to do so little time!!

Molly, I ain't ready either!!! so sorry for those that already have everything frozen, most of us are going to be crying with you soon. (not lisa of course, but she's still dealing with all that water, so I'll take the cold that's due me!!!)

And then there's me....with my "twisted" mind. Bring on the cold weather!! yeah, I know...."twisted"...

Feel chill in here.. it's in 54 now.. Sorry about your everything's frozen... I hate when it happen.

10am and we are warmed up to 34!
Miss Lisa catch-~~~****swoosh****~~~~ heres the tar, and looky i have a old pillow full of feathers! lol
i hate this season with a PASSION!
Ruby-sue im so sad-toad blood-well i couldnt think of anything-and they are garden related!!!

******CRYING****** :-(

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I'm so sorry, Dori! Yep, a little chilly here, too. 55 and raining. Won't be that long before we get a freeze, too ~ another month I think.

Lisa, I think with what you've been through lately, you're entitled to a few snickers! LOL! Glad you're good at ducking tarballs!

28 here this morning. We had our frost last week and this morning our pasture is a winter wonderland as my DH is doing one last watering of it and where the sprinklers have been running all night it is icecicles. Beautiful. The thing I hate most of the freezeing temps is that I now have to buy those tasteless grocery store tomatoes.

It was a crisp 47 here this morning. I whined and whimpered all the way through my morning shower and getting ready to take the kids to school. Although I know that in another six weeks or so, I'll be delighted when the nighttime low is ONLY 47 degrees! So sorry 'bout the plants, dori :(

Hey, sledder, maybe all us warmth-loving folks will flap our arms in your general direction and send you all the cold weather this year :) It might as well go where it will be appreciated!!!!

That would be fine with me. I like summer for the gardening, but if it's got to be cold and I can't work outside then bring on the snow.

Dori, I am in the same boat. I covered some of the flowers with my old,well-used row cover and will keep it on in hope that we get some moderate weather next week-I do so want to hold those plants to get some seeds. The tomatos and peppers are gone and it is too cold to finish my work. I do need to get the sprinklers on, just in case we do not get any more rain- we are way down in that area. I have lost plants in past years due to "freeze dried roots" and I do not want to this year. Sigh!!!!!!! I fear that it is going to be a long winter!!

I'm not ready!! I think out temps are dipping tonight! Sorry dori, I hate stuff that sneaks up like that!! It will probably be up in the 80s again next week - wierd!!

oh he didnt sneak up on me-not this yr. I was ready! I knew ol'Jack was coming this yr-i had all but 2 brugs dug and potted! Been digging and diggin all last week and covered up everyone(plants)else that was still rooted in!
So HA HA to you Jack Frost! (:-P} its just sad to see all the flowers so brown!

Yesterday I skimmed through a library book titled "The 12 month gardener", and it has some really interesting ideas for keeping lettuce and cold crops going through the entire year in a zone 4/5 garden. (I think I might try some of them myself!)

One thing in particular, they have a hoop-house type GH over a couple beds, AND they also use double row covers for these beds. Their theory is that every layer of insulation provides a zone and a half difference in temps. So 5a outside becomes something like zone 8b with that much protection. (And no supplemental heat) I don't know if that's entirely true, but I thought it was pretty interesting, considering I plan to keep my GH unheated until I set tomato seedlings in there in the spring...

we to had some frosts already :(
I hate this time of the year!! so sorry you lost some plants.

I would buy some toad blood to *LOL*

I get depressed during fall and winter!!
And I volontarely moved to Canada!! go figure *LOL*

I still have a few plants out in my greenhouse that have to be moved the next few days. One of them is my big selenicereus grandiflorus that looks like is going to have a bud.
WAY WAY do we need WINTER????

We had a freeze warning for last night, but it stayed about 46 here! Yippee! We almost never get a frost until early to mid November: all the trees hold the heat down by the ground. Yay! Yippee! Maters and peppers still thriving. Vols, what you read is true: the double-layer of insulation does bring the soil and air temp up about 12. I have an area that is almost frost-free year-round from doing this :D

There is beauty in all the seasons. Cheer up and think of the good things cold weather brings. How beautiful the fall leaves are. The way the snow glitters in the sun. Sitting by the window with a cup of hot chocolate and a good book. I love cold weather for a season.

brrrrr. I hate it. Sorry for the freeze. I'll be crying with you before long.

Howie, it's pretty but I'm not ready for snow yet. Today I picked the remaining tomatoes that had been under blankets for the past few nights. The vines had frozen and some tomatoes have transparent looking spots on them but most survived 3 nights of 25 degrees. Tomorrow I'll check to see if the green beans survived under 2 layers of remay row cover.

Well, it's 75 here right now but being in the panhandle of Florida it will freeze eventually. I don't like the cold and would live in Key West if I could!
I understand how sad it is to lose the plants or at least see them go for the year.

yes howie, there is beauty in all four seasons! Our four seasons are: Crawfish season, shrimp season, crab season and mmmmmm...oyster season..

I'm so sad it isnt't colder. Right now it is +2 C and we got lots of snow! Yahoo. The bad thing is it is so wet because we are in the + degrees.. I hate wet weather.

I made my first snowman :D

evert you can keep that snow there-im not ready, although it is pretty-its also pretty cold! i hate saying goodnight to the plants until nest season-so come on CO-OPs lets get me some more plants in the gh! =]

This is very early though, we still have most leaves in trees, and flowers are blooming... I think this will melt soon too.

I really like the cold if I can stay inside and cuddle up to the wood stove while baking bread and making chicken and dumplings. I like the ice storms that shut everything down. It's like being out in the old west way back when ~ you know you're all alone and will stay that way 'cause no one in their right mind would venture out to come visit. And you don't have to venture out to do anything but feed the animals. What a cozy feeling!

I WISH we would get snow to make dealing with the cold more worth it. All we get blanketing the ground in winter is a layer of poop-brown leaves. Ever made a mud angel? Not the same...

LOL Linda, You will have to just come up here and help me make snow angels. And bring that brown snowplow cow when you do and we can get her to plow my driveway. And watch her do a triple salchow in the snow with my steer in tow. LOL Then we can come in to a huge potroast that has been cooking in the oven all day and have a cup of hot cocoa and sit around the pellet stove. Lani

Oh Wingnut!!!!! i'll be right over!!!! fresh bread and chicken and dumplings???????YUMMMMMMMMMM, when we finished all our dinner, whats next???? hot apple pie?????, lol

Now wing you are making it sound like a lot of fun. Maybe we need to start coming to your house for the winter.

Come on over!! We won't be having apple pie unless y'all bring the apples, but would peach cobbler and PECAN pie, made with fresh native pecans from my trees, be okay? And we can wash it all down with some homemade blackberry wine from my cajun friend ~ we call it "Richard's Reserve". Mmm-MMM!! Then again, Lani's place sounds awful good ~ potroast, hot chocolate and snow cow tricks! (*ROTF, Lani!* If y'all were wondering about all that, look at the last eight or ten posts on this thread http://davesgarden.com/t/362440/ )

OH please stop with all this goodies *LOL* wingnut fresh pecans yummy.

I'm considering moving down south (I wish) *LOL*

Hey, when it's cold, I don't feel guilty about being inside. :)

BINGO, GW! I think that's part of why I like it so much, too. I can play half a day on DG, put something in the oven, play with my yarn or cross stitch stuff for the rest of the day and not feel like I should have done something else. And if it's nasty cold, no one will come to visit and interrupt me. I love that!

Well, Wingnut, I NEED some of your pecans. I am allergic to the local walnuts but pecans are no problem. So you need to come up and bring your cow plow and she can play with my goats with their sideways fake horns and all will have fun while we do too. The rest of you are invited too!!! I have plenty of fish in my big pond to feed all of you and we can have a good old fashioned fish roast around an open fire with marshmallow and chocolate smores for desert! Yum Yum. And the weather this last week has been classic fall weather. Beautiful and clear in the 70's during the day and in the low 40's during the night. The trees are gorgeous!!!!!!! Lani