Best Of Luck To You!!

Oh, good luck. It is a long, cold spring for sure! I have some extremely large tomato plants that can't wait much longer, but those night time forecasts aren't getting much warmer here either. The rest of the tomato and pepper seedlings are starting to get a little bit cramped but not too bad. We're having a 1 in 10 year, so it is not unheard of to have frosts this late, just not the norm. I'm telling myself it will make the heat of summer more enjoyable.

Good luck!

I'm amazed that you put plants out in March in zone 6b.

I'm in a marginal zone 7b/8a in northern California, and we don't typically plant peppers in-ground until the end of May.

This Spring has been warm, so a lot of folks planted this weekend. However, that doesn't mean we won't have our typical cool May...and possibly a cool June.

I have old waterjugs at the ready to cover plants...just in case.

And I thought I was taking a big risk this year :-D

Josh

Good luck! I'm in zone 6 as well, and I'm waiting another couple of weeks :)

Thanks guys. Well Josh, last year was extremely rare, our march was very warm, it didn't look like there were going to be any reversals so I took a chance, and it worked out.... haha, not this year. End of may? WOW! maybe it's the coastal effect? Around here, they say April 10 for beans, corn, and such, normally I put out my peppers and tomatoes mid April, so, this year I was actually late. There are some that put out their tomatoes in late feb/early march, but they use those water cones. We don't put anything out end of may, the lastest for us would be okra and melons around the first of may.

So far our spring has been very cold, lots of record lows have been broken, but we keep thinking, this will be the last. I do have a ton of 1 gal pots, guess I'll dump the dirt out and use them to cover the plants. This better be the last.

I don't even think we are having a 1 in 10 year, I think this might be one in 100, temps this low, this late are a first, weather people are going nuts. They even said places a bit north of us (as in less than an hour north) might be getting freezing rain.

No way could it be cold enough to make the summer heat more enjoyable for me Sunnibel ;-)
Pam

Hey, Pam!

I think it's the foothill effect here...Sierra Nevada foothills.
I'm over two-hundred miles from San Francisco, which is the nearest access to the coast ;-)

"All gardening is local..."

Josh

Hey Josh!

NICE! Only effects we have around here are wind and sun burn. ;-) I'm in the plains bordering the dustbowl.

Pam

How are the plants holding up? Did our luck work? :)

Hey sunni, honestly, I don't know yet, I didn't have enough time to check before leaving for work, but I'm taking the afternoon off so I should know soon. I did get all the pepper, tomato, and tomatillo plants under plastic pots last night, and the rest are in the greenhouse, so I should be ok. Can't believe it, we got SNOW last night, that's a first. It's supposed to be warmer tonight, 38, but I think I'll still go ahead and cover them again.
Pam

update! Yea! they all look fine, no worse for wear (or maybe it's, no worse for weather ;-)) ... one more night... what a pain, taking off and putting on all those pots about 55 total. I guess it's worth it though.

This post was edited by kuvaszlvr on Fri, May 3, 13 at 16:45