Hallo. In den nächsten Tagen kann es zu Frost kommen, und ich habe gerade vor einer Woche ein paar Pflanzen gepflanzt und habe keine Abdeckung. Gibt es eine Chance, dass ich sie ohne Abdeckung schützen kann?
Von: Sad_Sail4326
Hallo. In den nächsten Tagen kann es zu Frost kommen, und ich habe gerade vor einer Woche ein paar Pflanzen gepflanzt und habe keine Abdeckung. Gibt es eine Chance, dass ich sie ohne Abdeckung schützen kann?
Von: Sad_Sail4326
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Short of casting a spell, no. However, there are two possibilities:
Do you have any old bed sheets? Place a stick right next to and higher than each plant, then lay the sheet over them.
If you have an oscillating fan that can reach the whole garden, that may work as well. Air movement helps prevent frost from forming.
You can add row cover. Seriously, though, if you have seasons, this is the time of year for pulling things out and shutting things down, not planting them…unless you are trying to do an all-year garden, in which case you’ll need a whole lot of winter row cover and hoops or a similar setup. There’s a book called “The Year-Round Vegetable Gardener” by Nikki Jabour about that.
Looking at that forecast, you planted your tender crops out too soon.
It’s not just about the one night of potential frost (although obviously that’s the biggest problem). Tender crops like peppers, squash, beans, etc. shouldn’t be planted out until nights are reliably above 8 or 9 celcius. Night temperatures cooler than that will shock the plants and make growth stall, and they’ll end up just sitting there barely growing for a couple of weeks before they finally get going again.
Cover with any shitty blanket for the temp drop and you’re fine. Take the blanket off about an hour after sunrise and you’re fine. Did it everyyyyy year for 7 years at the nursery I worked at. Never failed. Just needs to trap in heat and block wind for the night. Eeeeasy peasy.
Farmers in my area use old fertilizer or mulch bags to cover new plantings for a few days/weeks. Garbage bags would would work as well.
Just make sure to take them off if the temp gets above 10°C, or they may get shocked by the temperature change.
Im Guessing it is just thr over night frost?
If so the they will be fine. May loose a couple of leaves but wont die. Unless u have some seedlings as u said u just planted.
I live in Canada and i leave my Jasmine out for thr summer. I have had over night frosts and it has survived every time. But this plant was an old mature plant.
It also sheds its summer leaves and get new ones for the indoor winter. The wildest thing ive observed a plant do. 🤣
If it’s not a hard frost you can douse them with water during the night to prevent it.
Ive used it in my dahlias many years to squeeze an extra few weeks out.
It doesn’t have to be a sheet either, if you have buckets or big tubs you can invert those over them too. Just remember to remove them in the morning before the sun cooks them!
Nope.
5 gallon buckets over the top of them
For plants this small you can use buckets or bowls or really anything to cover them. The bigger plant set a chair or stool over them and drape a sheet or blanket over it. If you use cloth covers just make sure they are supported so the dont squash your plants.