Showing posts with label frost. Show all posts
Showing posts with label frost. Show all posts
Sunday, March 22, 2026

What Happens When You Rush Things

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Gardening is an inexact science.  You win some and you lose some, and you definitely learn along the way.  For planting the spring garden, I...
Sunday, November 16, 2025

First Frost 2025

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Sometimes the weather forecast is right on the money.  And then other times, they totally miss it.  I can understand.  Weather has a lot of ...
Sunday, March 19, 2023

Freeze Warning on March 19th

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In a really unusual happening, we have a freeze warning tonight.  As I type this, temps are predicted to get down to 31 degrees tonight and ...
Wednesday, October 19, 2022

Fall is Here!

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Last night it got down to 33 degrees!  Tonight it is supposed to be the same.  In anticipation of the very early cold snap, I rolled out a r...
Tuesday, January 21, 2020

Tomatoes, Peppers, and Eggplant - 3 Weeks Later

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On December 29th I planted tomatoes, peppers, and eggplant into seed pots.  I always plant those crops from seed at this time of year and ra...
Thursday, December 28, 2017

Growing Lettuce in the Winter

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Lettuce.  Crisp, healthy, beautiful lettuce.  I plant 6 different varieties of lettuce in our garden: lollo rossa black seeded simpson ...
Thursday, January 28, 2016

Our First "Real" Freeze

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We have had an unbelievably mild winter so far.  In fact, I was telling my wife just the other day that the grass is still green in the past...
Monday, November 23, 2015

First Day of Frost - November 23, 2015

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Last night was a good night.  We had a potluck supper at church to celebrate Thanksgiving a little early.  We always enjoy fellowship meals ...
Thursday, November 20, 2014

The First Freeze of Winter

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Well, Jack Frost visited us a little early this year.  The average first frost date for our zone is November 21 - 31.  We had temperatures d...
Monday, December 30, 2013

Jack Frost Nipping at your Nose

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We're in South Louisiana so our winters are decidedly mild.  Sometimes they are warm and balmy.  Snow is pretty rare and some years we d...
Friday, November 29, 2013

Jack Frost Nipping at your Nose

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The morning following Thanksgiving was ushered in with roosters crowing and cows mooing.  Nothing out of the ordinary there - except for the...