O/T garden did I save it

old · Oct 21, 2011

Well we had a hard freeze here last night. First frost of the year and it was pretty hard at that. Any how I had the sprinkler on the garden all night. Got up this morning and the whole garden is covered with ice about an 1/8 inch or more. So did I save it or do I now have to pick what is still out there and can/freeze what is still saveable???. I still had Tomato's, peppers and beans growing

davediehl@hotmail.com · Oct 21, 2011

If the plants were iced, you better get what you can now. If the ice was just on the ground, you should be ok.

Billy NY · Oct 21, 2011

Did the leaves curl up, usually the case with bell peppers, and tomatoes. You've got time to see, when it thaws, then if frost got em, probably best to pick whats left.

I'm still picking peppers here, bell that are ripe, red, yellow orange, green and purple, tomatoes done in by all that rain mostly, though we did have one light frost, I tarped my pepper patch. Small compact garden facing the south, on a hill, works nice for late season/early season, not much room to work, but she produces well, and easy to tarp up. I'm really impressed with these bell peppers, sure looked like they were just stunted and or not going to produce, just have to wait em out, they are a really healthy vegetable to have when ripe, loaded with vitamin C, and what make the hot/spicy venison sausage w/ peppers/onions an enjoyable meal, I saved most of my sausage, till these peppers ripened.

PJH · Oct 21, 2011

We had 29 over here by Chester, Illinois. Our plants didn't look too bad - will know later if they were burned too bad. We're making green tomato pickles this morning. One batch done, one to go. . .

old · Oct 21, 2011

I figure in a week or so if the tomato's made it I'll be doing green tomato salsa which I have found to be pretty good. Picked a number of green tomato's a little bit ago from plants that I know where to far gone to save

PJH · Oct 21, 2011

Old - it looks like about half of our tomato plants survived the cold from last night. The survivors were the ones closest to the machine shed - guess there's a little protection or warmth there somehow. Wife has been making salsa for a few days, and green tomato pickles today. Good luck with your salsa.

old · Oct 21, 2011

Been doing the green tomato salsa for a couple years now and have around 8 lbs of Jalapeno pepper I will be canning in the next couple days. I'll be making sweet jalapeno slices which are real good on sandwiches etc

JDseller · Oct 21, 2011

Did you keep the sprinkler on until all of the ice melted???? I know on straw berries you have to keep the ice wet as it will not go below 31 degrees wet but if you stop before it is melted off then the berries freeze.

old · Oct 22, 2011

I turn it off before the ice had melted off but it was sunny so it did not seem to hurt any thing because as the ice fell off every thing looked good

John_PA · Oct 22, 2011

It's 32 degrees here right now. I covered up my pepper plants, but, this is definitely going to shut them down for a few days, and I have lots of little cherry sized peppers just getting started.

It's sad to see the end to the growing season, isn't it?

What kinds of cold weather crops do you grow?

old · Oct 23, 2011

I did save most of it at least for a few more days. I planted a number of things for the fall garden. Lettuce radishes turnips, cabbage and that type of stuff. Been pulling radishes about a half doze pure day now for over a week. Nice size ones about the size of your thumb

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