So, it's been over 2 weeks since we planted our tomatoes outside in the hot boxes. I took these picture yesterday morning and they are growing and flourishing and smiling...
The buds are appearing on the plants and judging from the plants yesterday, we are certain we will have a bumper crop of tomatoes this year...finally!
Until this morning...
We had a freeze in the night and lost all the tomatoes which were covered in the hot boxes...
The hoses were completely frozen this morning. The potatoes that were up look black too. Luckily the corn, beans, lettuce, zinnia's, sunflowers, cucumbers, and squash were not up yet. The peas, spinach and onions are fine.So off the the store we will go to get tomato plants...
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Oh your poor tomatoes and all that work! We can attest to how cold it got in our area too ... a tent at convention can get pretty cold when there's frost...(: Oh well - we survived better than your tomatoes!
Oh dear :( I guess that's the way it goes. I ended up digging mine back out of the ground to bring back in the house at night. Their doing alright, although not as lush as those firt pictures of yours.
Oh dear :( I guess that's the way it goes. I ended up digging mine back out of the ground to bring back in the house at night. Their doing alright, although not as lush as those firt pictures of yours.
Oh bummer! Yours look like some of mine! I'm thinking it must have been a bit colder at your house than here as it only killed a couple of ours. Yours were looking sooo good too! :0(
I read this while we were gone but didn't get a chance to comment... All that hard work and they were looking so nice. Sorry... !
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