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Re: Help! Calling for frost tonight!!

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Uh Oh, Frost in Ottawa? Guess I best cover my sweet potatoes...

One thing to do is water, water, water, before it gets cold, and even during
the evening and night.

You might try dry cleaner bags over the 'maters, too....

Newspapers are likely to blow away in this wind   (yes, it's Windsday, or at
least very blustery....:-) unless you tape them together carefully...

Burlap, remay, old sheets or anything to provide a slight measure of
protection is helpful....Lee Valley carries reemay, I think, as would most
other good horticultural shops (let yer fingers do the walking...)

My Pappy (thas grandfather, to those not of French descendancy) used to use
smudge pots, as they did in the citrus groves of Florida.....

Frank---water holds heat, and just a thin layer of remay will give you a few
degrees of frost pertection----thinks he will build moveable greenhouses
like Eliot Coleman recommends, one of these fine Canadian days....(Four
Season Harvest is a book worth reading, if you live in the Northern tier
(tier is french for 'third')....:-)
-----Original Message-----
From: Lisa Routhier <broccolisa@hotmail.com>
To: sqft@listbot.com <sqft@listbot.com>
Date: Tuesday, June 15, 1999 7:47 AM
Subject: Help! Calling for frost tonight!!


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>They've called for the possibility of frost tonight.  What can I do to
>protect my vegetable plants?  I don't have a plastic sheet nor do I have an
>old piece of cloth to use to cover them.
>
>What I do have though is tons of newspaper.  Can anyone on this short
notice
>tell me what part of the plant I should cover, and how I should cover it?
Ie
>Just the base of the stem, or the entire plant?  Are there some that don't
>need to be covered, like the broccoli and spinach?
>
>My tomato plants especially are beautiful, almost one metre high.  Should I
>cover them entirely, to be sure they'll be safe?  I don't understand how
>frost works, so if anyone can help me out, I'd really appreciate it!
>
>--Lisa in Ottawa
>
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