Frost Advisory

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

a little dew on the cars here..did the big bad frost happen in the north county?

 

[Warp Daddy]

a little dew on the cars here..did the big bad frost happen in the north county?

NOT here !!!! it was cold enough for the furnace to kick on but SL River has a Moderating effect

 

[billski]

Lmao----------------- the ONLY thing we plant up here till June is PLASTIC FLOWERS

What the Queen does is plant several nice Huge Wickers baskets of stuff that we put on the porches UNTIL u can safely put stuff in the ground . Guess who gets to take them in the house last several nites ??


Then she goes' nuts with the various flower beds after Mem. Day . She actually each fall pulls up and keeps and regenerates her geraniums each year . Keeps them on tarps in our cellar and damn they thrive and save us $$$$ Shes got the GREEN thumb, ME I'm just GRUNT labor

When we lived up north, my father used to try to get ahead of the game by starting everything inside. Problem was, he was too successful. He had a freaking vegetable garden in the basement windowsills that was threatening to take over the house. Something happened, I don't know what but his crops (maybe they were too big to survive indoors in my fathers setup) were a total bust that year. Maybe it was a thread of eviction or something :-o

 

[billski]

Now I can see issuing frost warnings to farmers, now that is useful, but frustrating. When I used to work on farms, the produce and apple farmers would try to save their crops, but it was often futile, since the acreage was so large. In the 70s and 80s, they tried to save fruit trees by putting huge propane-fired warmers in the field, but it was cost-prohibitive. Nothing worse than seeing an entire season wiped out early.

 

[Greg]

a little dew on the cars here..did the big bad frost happen in the north county?

I'm not north country, but we had some on the shady north facing sloped sections of the lawn. Wasn't a big deal. Not sure if it made it to freezing or not. The temp was 35 when I got up at around 6:30.

 

[kcyanks1]

Normally, I'd be like, "hell yeah," but we just spent a bunch of coin and spent a lot of time planting a bunch of annuals today. Lots of our frost susceptible perennials have also started to grow. :evil:

Back to a default of blue!!

 

[ERJ-145CA]

It was 32 here at 6:30.

 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

I'm not north country, but we had some on the shady north facing sloped sections of the lawn. Wasn't a big deal. Not sure if it made it to freezing or not. The temp was 35 when I got up at around 6:30.

compared to east-central PA you are North Country..

 

[severine]

I'm not north country, but we had some on the shady north facing sloped sections of the lawn. Wasn't a big deal. Not sure if it made it to freezing or not. The temp was 35 when I got up at around 6:30.

Only needs to be 37 degrees for frost according to the news last night.

 

[Johnskiismore]

When I got home at around 1AM this morning it was 29F with a little frost on the windshield.

 

[Marc]

With these hot day time temps... the nights aren't getting as cool. Rode into work this morning since it was *only* 45 at 5:30 when I left.

Fortunately, everything I've put in the garden so far likes cool weather... brocolli, beets, radishes and lettuce.

Garlic and onion sets just went in as well.

This is going to be a big planting weekend... corn, beans, possbily more onions, might wait another week for tomatoes and peppers. Bulk of the annuals though. So much work, so little time.

 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

dang..I couldn't do the gardening thing...the amount of time spent planting divided by the value of the vegetables doesn't seem worth it to me..


but good to see alot of people on here getting dirty!!!

 

[RootDKJ]

dang..I couldn't do the gardening thing...the amount of time spent planting divided by the value of the vegetables doesn't seem worth it to me..


but good to see alot of people on here getting dirty!!!

I really don't enjoy it either...well except for mowing the lawn, because that involves beer.

My wife really likes to garden and she doesn't give me shit when I tell her I'm going to ski in VT two weeks after she was in a car accident, so I'll garden with her all she wants.:idea:

 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

I really don't enjoy it either...well except for mowing the lawn, because that involves beer.

My wife really likes to garden and she doesn't give me shit when I tell her I'm going to ski in VT two weeks after she was in a car accident, so I'll garden with her all she wants.:idea:

lol..I'll never mow another lawn..I did that enough when I was a teenager..I have no interest in doing any work outside of work..

 

[severine]

I'm not a fan of yardwork. Technically, I don't have to do any because we rent and the yardwork isn't our responsibility. But the handyman mows the front lawn maybe 5x a year (does not ever mow the backyard, which is now a forest of weeds), didn't rake last fall at all, and does little else to make the yard look nice. I'm tired of feeling like I can't go outside at my own home and today I actually raked the side yard (the girl upstairs raked the front and back yard back during the fall). The grass is a bit high, but at least the kids were able to play outside for once. It's worth the blister I now have on the palm of my left hand.

I understand homeowner's pride. I do. But I also hated feeling like the house owned me instead of us owning the house. For now, I'm glad we rent. We have a lot more free time this way.

 

[Marc]

dang..I couldn't do the gardening thing...the amount of time spent planting divided by the value of the vegetables doesn't seem worth it to me..


but good to see alot of people on here getting dirty!!!

It's not simply for the monetary benefit. I like doing it, I have good land to use, I can cut down on my contributory pollution by avoiding having my veggies transported from California, and I get a much higher quality product if I grow my own... plus much healthier.

No pesticides... all natural fertilizer, and all of the cultivars grown for supply chains are grown for their durability in transport and color retention... not for their taste.

 

[Greg]

I enjoy yardwork. Mostly because it's pretty mindless and the end result is usually very satisfying. I'll never understand those that invest so much money to buy a home and then let their property go to shit. I can only imagine what the inside of the house looks like...

 

[hammer]

I enjoy yardwork. Mostly because it's pretty mindless and the end result is usually very satisfying. I'll never understand those that invest so much money to buy a home and then let their property go to shit. I can only imagine what the inside of the house looks like...

I get some satisfaction out of yard work (the lawn sure looks a lot better after a good trim) but I don't have the time/talent/desire to have one of those manicured landscapes...I try to make the front yard nice but there are a lot of backyard areas where I let nature be nature.

And it's not entirely mindless...I just paid $$ to have a large river birch removed from the front of my house. Didn't consider how aggressive it would be when I planted it. :dunce:

 

[Johnskiismore]

Frost Advisories and Warnings across much of Northern New England, and NH has a statewide Red Flag Warning well!

NE Weather

 

[Warp Daddy]

Frost Advisories and Warnings across much of Northern New England, and NH has a statewide Red Flag Warning well!

NE Weather

Yep we got the red flag warning here tonite :uzi:-- it figures the Queen planted a ton of stuff YESTERDAY and bought more stuff today