Record Cold Temps

[Phil Lilley]

It got down to 25 here last night. We've had plants covered now for 3 days. I think it helped curve the damage. Looks like we've had a toga party last night and they all cut and ran, leaving their sheets behind.

It's hard to tell this early how bad the freeze damaged some plants and trees. I'm especially worried about the sycamores. We've lost several in the last couple of years to a fungus they got about 8-9 years ago when we had a warm spell and then a cold wet spell late in the spring. The ones we lost never seemed to recover after that.

I'm sure the lake kept our area little warmer than others.

[jdmidwest]

I lost all the leaves on some tulip poplars, some damage to bradford pears, redbuds look sick. Had not planted much except for lettuce and peas. Local orchards are calling it a total loss across the river in IL. 20 degrees Sat. morning.

[SilverMallard]

Did someone say Toga Party @ Lilley's? Toga! Toga! Toga!

I'll put out the word on MySpace, Phil. What night do you want to have this shin-dig?

LOL

[Snow Fly]

TOGA....TOGA.....PARTY! Reminds me of an movie which had a really wild TOGA PARTY The weather might be a little cold but what the heck....It's a TOGA PARTY

[Phil Lilley]

Sheets will come off tomorrow. It'll be a big wash day.

Better hurry!

[Quillback]

The veggies I planted made it through the cold, I used towels instead of sheets. Put a small cooler over a tomato plant I had foolishly planted 2 weeks ago. Brocolli looks a little stressed, but peas and onions made it OK. Come on back warm weather!

[Wayne SW/MO]

I hope the Sycamores survive, mine lost some leaves a few years back when a cold spell hit earlier than this, and they never recovered the leaves.

[Ham]

D*** global warming.

[jdmidwest]

Yes, don't you wish Al Gore was president right now? Wonder what he would do about all this global warming. Lots of damage here, clover and other hay crops totaled. Most all of the trees have damage but should recover. Nut crop will be lost this year and the game will suffer. And it needs to warm up for the morels..

[taxidermist]

HAy crops will recover they had just started, My fields of fescue did fine, Bermuda was not started.

My brother is in the lawn treatment business, fertilizer and yard pest, i.e. bugs and weeds and he says the cool weather grasses are fine, warm weather grasses had not put on green growth, just roots and the freeze did not destroy any roots.

My Black berries are still putting on the leaves and they will bloom, guess they may be hardier than other crops.

Trees will recover but it will stress them, looks like a brown abd black fall around here. My White oaks had not done anything yet I checked them close this afternoon. Wild Cherry are fine, so maybe the freeze is not as bad as some think.

I live on the side of a mountain and its colder than a well diggers wet butt here but the hardier wild fruits seem ok, I lost the raspberrys aas did my Dad in Harrison. his strawberry plant seem fine.

I have afriend that is big into planting his garden according to the "SIGNS" and he had not planted anything except potatoes, peanuts, carrots and sweet taters, he said the signs had not been good for above ground plants.

Dont know time will tell.

John