Re: [gardeners] Frost!!!
George Shirley (gardeners@globalgarden.com)
Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:31:38
At 12:42 PM 8/17/98 -0400, you wrote:
>>Can you believe it, I just woke up and we have had our first frost, a week
>>early! This is the earliest we've had one since I've lived in this area.
>>Themometer says it got down to 33F but there is ice on the windshield of
>>the car.
>>
>>The temperature was plesant enough yesterday I was able to mow some
>>tall weeds and weed a bed of small shrubs that have been long lost. I hope
>>by removing the weeds I didn't expose overly tender leaves to the last
>>nights cold.
>>
>>What weird weather. You would never know this morning that just a few
>>days ago it was about 60 during the night and in the 90's during the day!
>>
>>Terry King North Central Eastern Washington
>>taeking@televar.com USDA zone 4, Sunset Zone 1
>
>You need a Schaefer Yarn frost blanket, Terry. :-) I'm always sorry to hear
>about early frosts. The season is too short in the north as it is, wherever
>it is! And this year everything has come and gone so early and so fast
>(e.g. only a week or two of each type of berry) that I fear autumn will be
>quite dull. Has anyone else heard predictions of a terrible winter to come?
>Cheryl
>
>Cheryl Schaefer
>schaefer @epix.net
>Zone 5 in the fabulous Finger Lakes of NY
>
Yup, saw some prognasticator on the Weather Channel the other day
forecasting an early and harsh winter based on El Nino, La Nina, and other
things I couldn't understand. Sure hope he's wrong.
George