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|    songbird to All    |
|    Re: Possible freeze. To water or not to     |
|    03 May 20 21:02:49    |
      From: songbird@anthive.com              T wrote:       ...       > I have nothing to cover them with               no old light blankets, sheets? buckets, pots, or       pans?               if you are really worried you can heat up some       rocks and put them in there. though you have to       be sure not to fry your plants too.               i don't have any experience with watering to       save from frosts. i have one experience with       putting things over plants and it didn't matter       much as the peppers dropped all their leaves       anyways, the tomato plants seemed a bit more       tolerant but i wouldn't count on that. what       happened after that the pepper plants regrew       their leaves and the tomato plants survived       and we had a decent crop all around.               i don't plant early, except things i have extra       seeds and can afford to risk it. 3 weeks is way       too early for warm season plants IMO.               we have frost in the forecast for later this week.       perhaps my first planting of peas won't make it or       not. we'll see...                      good luck!                      songbird              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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