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Re: Frost Questions

Square Foot Gardening List - http://www.flinet.com/~gallus/sqft.html

Patricia:
You're more than welcome!
The Sept/Oct 99 issue of Organic Gardening magazine also has an article
entitled "Predicting the First Frost". Some clues listed are:
1) Clouds: if the sky is clear, the air is dry, and the temp is falling,
chances are a frost will settle on your garden...
2) Breezes: frost is less likely on a night with a gentle breeze (but
not strong wind) blowing...
3) Trees: a veggie garden surrounded on 3 sides by mature trees will
survive the 1st two or three frosts untouched (they act like a blanket)
4) Dew Point: the more moisture in the air at sunset (higher dew point),
the less the likelihood that frost will occur during the night.
5) Frost Pocket: elevation of the garden (at the bottom of a hollow or
valley will be colder) is a factor also
(Hope I haven't infringed on a copyright!)

Also, watering your garden well will help when there's a frost
predicted.

Hope this is helpful to you and anyone out there interested.

Stay warm!

Lisa
zone 6b
northern middle TN
(who's preparing for the frost too--boyfriend built me a sunbox
yesterday to house my lettuce; I'm so excited!)


Patricia Santhuff wrote:
> 
> Square Foot Gardening List - http://www.flinet.com/~gallus/sqft.html
> 
> >Mel's Sq Ft Gardening book, Page 227 describes light frost, hard frost,
> >light freeze, hard freeze in great detail. Following that is a section
> >on protecting plants from frost. If you don't have a copy of the book (I
> >recommend you do), let me know and I'll elaborate further.
> 
> Aw, geez. I do have it. I've read it, read at it, referred back to it,
> thumbed through it, underlined, highlighted, flagged and bookmarked it
> nearly to pieces. And yet, even tho I KNOW it's one of the more
> comprehensive books out there (esp. for its size), I missed that and/or
> forgot it was there.
> 
> :: feeling pretty sheepish::  Thanks so much for pointing it out to me.
> Nextg time (I absolutely PROMISE), I'll consult Mel FIRST.
> 
> >As for the screened gazebo, I think they'll be fine without further
> >protection.
> 
> Fabulous! Makes my job a LOT simpler. Now, off to check weather.com to see
> if I can get a forecast a little closer to my area, which is *between here
> and there* and nobody covers it good.
> 
> Thanks so much for your help, Lisa.
> 
> Patricia
> Zone 7b, West Georgia
> 
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