Heavy ground frost this morning !!

Bruce from Can.

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When I look out the window at the lower pasture, it almost looks like it could have snowed. But it is frost. So this leaves me wondering what will happen to the hay crop. Probably burn the top of the plants, so I might as well get first cut under way soon. One time about 25 years ago, we had a hard frost like this, and the trees lost their leaves. Looked like fall, the leaves dropped, and a new set came on. The new set of leaves where a thinner canopy , but no trees died. No corn tall enough around here to be hurt by this frost. Bruce
 
29 degrees F here in southern Cayuga county. Wife spent the evening covering her garden.
It's two extremes here. Corn, and even beans up, which were planted the first week of May. We got flooded on the 10-11th, and it's been raining ever since, so nothing has gone in. I spent that week planting oats and chiseling the corn ground, so don't have a kernel in. There is some movement here and there. I will try it again today.
 
We had 26 this morning. Got 4 rows of sweet corn up high enough it may have hurt it pretty good. I'll know for sure in 3-4 days.
 
Did you get hail last night? Got a bit here 7-ish. Still only 42 here at 9:00, and my furnace thinks my calendar is stalled at March! Saw you heading into the hardware store about 2:30 yesterday and waved, but you were on a mission and must not have noticed :)
 
Yes we did. We were down at our camp ground/picnic area eating supper. Decided it was a good time to pack up and come home. It was getting cold anyway.
 
Here in Watertown, NY, hard enough frost to kill plants that even were covered. Even some of the normally tolerant peas showed they were affected.
 
We dodged a few bullets as the rain went around the other day so we have most of our crops in. The garden is my responsibility so nothing is happening there as of yet.
 

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