Alright fine, Mother Nature. You win.
I learned a tough lesson the hard way. Despite that fact that I’ve been sweating my tush off at the garden for the entire month of February, Mother Nature decided to send one more little cold front through. How fun.
The frost-free date for Tallahassee is March 15, but the weather had been so sunny and beautiful, I didn’t think there was any chance we would get a freeze. Well, the joke was on me. Temps dropped the night of March 11th and as luck would have it, I was out of town. I returned to some pretty peaked plants.
By this point, my garden has expanded to include Tendergreen bush beans, Red Pontiac potatoes, cucumbers, five varieties of heirloom tomatoes, basil, cilantro, Cali peppers, jalapenos & eggplant. The frost caused the cucumber leaves to turn white, the bush beans to wilt and some of the tomato leaves to shrivel. I picked the dead leaves of the plants and started a new batch of cucumber seeds. Cukes germinate quickly, so if the first lot officially dies off, I’ll plant the new ones.
I’m keeping my fingers crossed for the tomato plants.
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