Dealing with Plant Freeze Damage
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- Опубликовано: 12 сен 2020
- For most gardeners the first freeze in fall spells the end or near-end of the gardening season, but it doesn't need to be. Focusing on plants that can survive cold temperatures can keep the season going. Removing dead plants can even free up garden space for new late-season plants. (Video #211)
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"Just do as much work as u want to do" 😀 well i really do agree 😁
Dude seeing you race to plant in the short amount of time left in CO is thrilling.
I know you said its freeing up your time.....But it still is heartbreaking to see all those beautiful green healthy plants all brown. I look forward to seeing the future things you will e doing.
Your attitude toward all of this is inspiring, and it helps me to see there is always a new opportunity after any failure, due to mother nature or myself as a gardener.
“All of this devastation is great for my compost pile.” Gardener Scott, I respect and admire your positive re-framing of this otherwise (disappointing) situation! 🌱💫
Yes it we ain't having fun wait till spring
Hay today I ordered about 80 percent of my next spring seads and plans are my best ever and plan to get grow lights and more
Not to change the subject, I showed my 6 year old grand-daughter your video about rock painting today. Guess what we'll be doing this winter. We'll have a great time. I've had her helping me planting since she was four. OH! and she loves the t-shirt I got her for her birthday in August...they do make great gifts for kids. Thanks for your videos and she likes them too.
So sad to see your summer season plants be finished so abruptly. Mother Nature can be a harsh master. But she can also be so benevolent and bountiful. Your ability to look past your losses and plan for the next bounty is what inspires me. Thank you!
I love your t-shirt in this clip.
Sorry about you losing your pumpkins. I am in the California Desert and started my pumpkins in late July. I am praying that I get some pumpkins for the kiddos for Halloween. I might be cutting it close.
Sad to see those plants drooping and dying.
Thanks for all your encouragement! I lost about half my garden in the California heat wave last weekend. Spent the day replanting my summer garden (squash, beans, and herbs mostly).
Love your continued positivity. We still have hot weather here in Southeast Tennessee, but I did pull my Roma tomato plants. Making room along the trellises for peas.
I'm close to that time in upper east Tennessee. Just enough time for peas and carrots.
Kal1699 I have kale and Swiss chard started in the greenhouse. Here where I am the kale usually makes it thru the Winter.
Well said mr Scott! It was a hard season here in Alberta ,but the fall is shaping up quite nicely. Cool weather opportunities are many in the garden and I’m so happy to see that you’re encouraging all of us to “enjoy gardening” even when it seems like the season is over. 😁
You are so encouraging! Hope you have a great fall harvest!
I'm learning SO much from you Gardener Scott... Thank you 💖💖
Thank you for being so positive and encouraging in the aftermath of adversity. You are inspiring many gardeners to persevere. I will refer to this when i have any setback, like the spider mite infestation that nearly wiped out my tomatoes and eggplants. Thank you!
Thank you for sharing your garden story. Your knowledge of plants and plantlife is an inspiration on the best way to handle adverse conditions. Appreciate the information.
Your positivity is inspiring. Thanks!
You're amazing: so much positivity in the face of heartbreaking loss. As usual, I've learned so much in this video. Thank you!
It's videos like this that make me appreciate not having frosts until December. Makes me humble at how 'easy' we have it.
Thanks for the examples of how to turn the unfortunate weather snap into a positive. It was disappointing to see all that you had lost but a reminder of how to turn it all around and make the best of it. We had this spring with the late week of freezing weather and basically had to start all over for the growing season. Best of luck with your fall garden!
Looks very tough in Colorado. I'm in northern Europe, much higher latitude, but it will hit 30C this week and I hope to grow at least another 2 months months until the frost hits.
It is tough. We get arctic fronts rushing down from Canada. That sounds hot for Northern Europe at this time of year. Enjoy your remaining months.
So nice to hear your optimism ! 👍
I’m sorry for what happened to your garden. Your positivity is electrifying and very admirable...deserved to be exemplified. Words can’t describe my respect for you🙏
Makes me have hope for my fall garden.
Although, I my eggplants, and peppers were dead, they weren't! I pruned until I saw the inner main stem with life and the roots brought forth new plants quickly. Now I am still hopeful towards the young tomato plants that died off the tops have healthy roots to begin again. I do understand this will definitely NOT be the case for all plants, I assure you. In the future I will be using coverings such as plastic cup, jugs and storage containers.😊
What perfect timing for this video! Just had our first Fall freeze. Lost a lot, but a lot only got partial damage so on those plants (squash, zucchini, tomatoes and peppers) I just off the dead stuff and hope for recovery. So far so good, but the cantaloupe are done. Followed your advice in August and planted more cool weather crops, which are all doing very well. Your videos are an excellent resource for Rocky Mountain growers like me. THANK YOU!
The first time I grew a veggie garden I was hit by a terrible early frost and everything, absolutely everything died. I wept. But I learnt to be prepared and to check the weather forecast. Thanks for sharing, I was looking forward to this video since you announced you were expecting a frost last week.
I am in 4B zone. End of July (27th) I planted some radishes (French Breakfast) and leaf lettuce (Cos Romaine) in the shade of my tomato plants, the perimeter of those plots. The lettuce is doing OK but the radishes are on the slow side. Just for kicks, after I pulled out the beets (Detroit Red on 9/7), I divided that plot and used half to reseed beets (Detroit Red) and the other half for leaf lettuce (Black Seeded Simpson). We have had frost warnings already and I have covered the plots. I am looking forward to the results. If I only get small greens for a salad, all is great with me.
While we were in the upper 80's/low 90's in Seattle - Denver and region got snow. What crazy weather.
You are the Bob Ross of gardening. Thank you for helping me with my first freeze & what to do with what died.
Those mini pumpkins would still make some nice decorations unless they have gone mushy, or at least the seeds may still be good. Putting those in the compost is how I got volunteer pumpkins in my garden, and potato tower. Last year I took a big pumpkin after it sat in the house as a November decoration and did an experiment. I took the seeds out through a small hole in the bottom then I let it completely dehydrate in the sun. Well I got a wild hair and took a garden trowel and poked a face into it. Now I have a pumpkin that will last and it looks like leatherface. I did the same thing with a small pumpkin and it looks like a shrunken head. Although I cut the face on it with a knife. No two dry the same, so they are one of a kind, and they aren't plastic. The hard frost is when I start prepping soil for the spring because I don't have to mix compost with mud. I will still set out Earwig traps in hopes they will be less of a problem next year.
Please tell us more about your earwig traps.
So sorry for your losses! Heart breaking... Here in San Bernardino we are still having a heat wave. Looking at high 90's today.
I live in a tropical region in asia, at first i thought the video won’t be as useful to me since we don’t ever get temperatures below zero here.
We do however have a typhoon season where strong winds can easily come in and snap the stems of my plants that were planted in the open.
Thanks to Mr Scott, i now have a better way on how to deal with the impending loss of some of my own plants when the next big typhoon swings around!
Thank you for this video
This just happened for me in Norway this year of 2021.
Thank you so much for all of your videos! I have watched many of them and will continue! Would love to know more about how you grow into the winter. Thank you!
Thanks! I will be doing videos about winter growing as that season approaches.
I get so attached to my plants. I spend so much time watering, feeding and weeding around them….even talking to them - I can’t help it! It makes me sad when they die suddenly. I recently planted some tomatoes and jalapeños and 4 days later it went from 75F and sunny to 8 inches of snow. Now they are all wilted.
We are in the Springs. Just trying to figure out how to prep everything for next year. We have space about 80x80 with sandy soil. We just bought the house. Thanks for the higher elevation tips
Add organic matter to the soil now and again in spring. Compost, manure, grass, peat, and similar material. Our soil is terrible and it takes time to improve it.
Absolutely dig more garden beds, one every week or a few days adds up, and by spring they will all be ready to plant in! we're experimenting with garden cress in garden beds to keep animals from eating the plants, the dry season made it really hot and if it can protect other plants like strawberries, then garden cress doesn't take up very much space in the garden bed while helping to fill in between the strawberries~ Hopefully it doesn't soak up too much of what the strawberries need to grow.
That froze plants make me so sad , but you are right is fall crop is coming 👍🏼
If you were in AZ, you’d be getting a much higher crop yield and year round to boot! Ty for sharing, keeps motivation in focus 🥰
A wise gardener you are indeed. Cup half full disposition. I do look forward however to seeing your glasshouse being built to bridge such times as these. In my south pacific temperate island climate I cant imagine going from watering daily in high heat, to a big freeze. A sturdy disposition required for sure.
I went out to take out any leaves/plants that were killed overnight and when lifted up a rotten leaf there was the largest earthworm I've every seen. The more I went thru, I found there were maybe hundreds of worms having a heyday/feast on my dead veggies. I ended up leaving it for now and let nature do some of the work as I like the idea of feeding them. I felt bad taking the leaf off of that first worm. I put it back afterwards of course. As wonderful and fascinating this is. I am now worried about doing anything to disturb them, and worse, harm them by doing any digging of squishing etc.
I'm sorry about your cucumbers Scott.
I love the shirt ❤️
i always feel guilty when I leave things but i still leave things lol. thank you very much for saying doing what you want or can do is perfectly fine.
Up here in alberta we have had frost warnings but so far so good...no sense in denying it..winter on the way.😤
My best pumpkin year was the one after I composted a whole pumpkin! LOL.
I am sorry to hear that hopefully your pumpkins made it so you can make a video on your delicious pumpkin pie
I already have a video on my delicious pumpkin pie. So good!
@@GardenerScott I Sean that one it looks good.this winter are you going to plant . Pasta sprouts..lol lol lol
Thank you, I really love your channel. I'm curious, I'm trying to apply the no till method in parts of my garden and was wondering what I can do to minimize the disturbance to my soul when harvesting root crops?
My previous days of pulling dead plants out of the soil, I noticed worms like to gather at the roots. So now I cut the stem at the soil level and always leave the roots. I’m guessing there’s plenty of other microscopic creatures gathering at the roots too.
Thanks Gardener Scott. Just had first frost in middle NH. The cabbages, collards and butterhead lettuce planted in August all look good. I have cattle panel hoops over them and was wondering if putting plastic sheeting over at night would help to protect from frost (maybe temps if I close them up at night?). The cherry tomatoes and eggplants still producing but they are awaiting thier end by the end of this week where we will have lower 30’s for about a week. Take Care and Thanks!
Plastic sheeting will help. It will add 3-4 degrees of temperature protection at night when fully enclosed.
I like your attitude, even though it is really too bad that you lost so much. A few howevers to your video: why put the small pumpkins on the compost pile when you can eat them like summer squash? I have friends in the wildfire area that are ever so thankful for this weather, which has given them a second chance at saving their property. And finally, it is technically still summer!
Thanks. I harvested 15 pumpkins before the freeze and those few remaining weren't yet ripe enough.
@@GardenerScott I guess you've had enough of pumpkins by now, but I harvest those unfertilized winter squash or those other REALLY small ones and just slice, spice, and saute them as I would a summer squash - and they're great that way. Definitely different from the mature version, so it's like eating a different food.
Losing pumpkins this early was a bummer!
I was able to harvest 15 sugar pumpkins.
@@GardenerScott I left mine on the vine, hoping they would continue to ripen. Glad yours turned out!
Excellent video! I'm wondering if you simply throw your younger pumpkins in your compost or if you break them down somewhat. Thanks in advance.
Thanks! I will break apart the pumpkins for the compost.
Rhubarb is perennial in most of the U.K., I guess I should be grateful
Will you talk about plant diseases and compositing? We have endemic potato and tomato blights, which really hit in the summer. I’m having to throw my tomato plants away, because of blight
Gardener Scott: do you have a video or can you make a video explaining which plants you would put in your compost pile and what plants would not go in? ie: can you identify for us, what the various deceases look like, and what is just dead but still good for composting?
I don't have a video like that. Just about any plant that isn't diseased can go in the compost. Diseases vary by plant and there are hundreds of them. If you suspect your plant has a disease, enter the type of plant and the symptoms in a search and you should find what the disease is.
@@GardenerScott Okay, thanks for that. I just hope I haven't put any duds in my compost pile this year already. I'm very new to this and a bit overwhelmed…
Sounds like you spend a lot of time watering. Do you have any plans to install drip irrigation? I love it! I weed while my irrigation system is watering my plants :)
I will add some drip irrigation and soaker hoses as I finish building out the garden.
How low did your temperature get to cause that damage? I really really enjoy your videos.....very informative at a great pace , thank you!!
It got down to 26F and stayed at or below freezing for two days with a couple inches of snow.
Thanks for your experience and guidance. When putting in fall plants , will you put in any fertilizer or amendment ? Or just plant in the soil "as it is" ?
It depends on the soil, but I often add fertilizer before the soil is naturally rich. I definitely add organic matter. I have a video on fall gardening that shows that process.
Wondering how this affected the fruits on your plants? We’re they still good to preserve? Were they damaged too? Will they continue to ripen (IE: green tomatoes)?
We’ve both had a bit of a tough gardening year and I wish you a very successful gardening experience in 2021.
The freeze damaged all the fruit left on the plants. I harvested many green tomatoes before the cold hit. Thanks. I hope all of us have a better 2021.
Would a greenhouse have'd saved it or help it?
A greenhouse would have helped. My neighbors have a small one and used lights to heat it. Their plants were okay after this freeze.
It’s almost the end of April and we got with snow last night my tomato plants are almost all the way dead :-(
I’m curious about your compost pile. When you add all the veggies containing seeds, do you get a lot of volunteer plants? Or do they not establish as you turn it?
I get an occasional volunteer plant, but when I see the seedling emerge I just pull it.
"Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." Dr. Seuss. 2020 has been a terrible year. I have little doubt 2021 will be better and your garden will be even more grander than you planned.
freeze damage? already? we in germany will get 30 degrees C this week. maybe a coldspell next week aswell?
One question, were you able to harvest any of the food from the plants before the freeze? :-)
Secondly, I pulled the rest of my tomatoes on Friday morning while the air was not too bad as we've had smokey skies for a few days, yesterday was the worst (due to the fires in Oregon and its smoke blowing up into Puget Sound, but also because we are going to see some rain next week and you know how tomatoes are when it rains? Yeah, the skins split so I have my deeper plate on my table with ripened, or just near ripe tomatoes, and a dinner plate full of 2 tone green tomatoes to hopefully ripen (I figured about half of them will). Fortunately, the smoke today was not as bad as yesterday when it was a very eerie orange, today there still is smoke, but the skies look more or less normalish and we're exprected to only hit the mid to upper 60's as a result.
Temps here will reach back into the 70's next week but by next weekend, we'll be in the 60's. Since I plan on building raised beds next spring, I dug up the tomatoes and tossed them in the yard waste can on Friday.
I was able to harvest some squash, cucumbers, and tomatoes before the freeze. Good luck with your new beds.
I was prepared for the cold temps and the 6 inches of snow we got this last week in Wyoming, but I was NOT expecting the aftermath of the high winds...we had over 70 mph gusts! I lost many branches on trees and some of my neighbors lost entire trees to tip over! I’m very concerned with a large Colorado Blue spruce that the whole backside was damaged by wind...my husband and I are contemplating removal at this point but it’s disheartening! In a little under 20 years, we have experienced 3 major (100 year storms) that have uprooted large trees or damaged then severally. I worry about property damage as well with a large tree and mostly surface roots. Is there any solace when removing big otherwise healthy trees? I’m just beside myself😢
So sorry to hear that. I always try to reuse the plants in my garden. I had to cut down a beautiful tree last year due to storm damage. I used the branches to create a hugelkultur bed and as borders around my beds. Smaller branches are stacked in a pile to help protect wildlife. The leaves became mulch. I'll form a big trunk section into a bench on my patio. That's how I find solace.
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If you don't mind me asking, what state do you live? I'm in Massachusetts and still have tomatoes growing. (Planted in late june) The tomatoes will be turning red soon. Then I like to plant Garlic soon just like you are planning on doing in October.
I live in Colorado and my garden is at 7500' elevation. Normally we don't get our first damaging freeze until October.
Frozen blooms
Could you talk about garden amendments? I am trying to figure out what works best and how to add them to the garden. Do I work it in? Or do I just spread it on top?
I have a video on amendments that will come out soon. For soil that still needs nutrients, mix it in. For rich soil, spread it on top.
@@GardenerScott Thank you!
Can you leave a disease tomatoes as muching on your raised bed when the season is over.
I don't recommend using diseased plants in compost or as a mulch.
Is that an early frost for your zone 5b? I'm in 5-4b and don't expect first frost until the 18th...five days to go.
It was a record-setting early frost. Very unusual.
@@GardenerScott You know, here on Georgian Bay, I haven't seen temperatures above 80F for years, a decade perhaps. Last year it didn't get above 79F and the air was cool in the shade all summer long. This year, I couldn't get my garden in until the end of the first week in June. In the past the garden went in during the third week of May. I tried that last year, was hit with a wicked storm and managed to wrap my chicken wire hoop house in poly in a few hours to save my plants. The past five years have been much the same. The true growing season has shrunk by almost a month, from 4 to 3 months now. I've setup indoors for a winter garden and emergency retreats in spring and fall, and grow in pots, keep repairing the poly on the hoop house and have small green house. Right now the temperature, on a sunny day, is 46F. Summer was over 2 week ago. :(
Our garlic planted in mid-summer has been rooting in and sending up green shoots for a few weeks now, is it somehow better for the final bulb next summer to start them so late? We filled a groundhog hole with an armful of garlic in mid summer in the shaded backyard, and we recently dug out the garlic which has tons of new growth and planted them on the surface. Burying the garlic kept them from cooking in the sun, but any shaded spot would do fine.
The clove needs cold temperatures to form into a bulb and that is best done later. You'll get good growth when started earlier, but you may not get full bulb development.
I was thinking that it would have longer because it would still go through the same winter as the others, but an earlier start would make it bigger, so is there a too big for garlic?
I don't think there is a too big, but the bulb will have genetic limits for its growth.
Do you have other job
Or just work in the garden
what are the high and low temperatures when this happened?
It was 97F on Sunday and dropped to 26F on Tuesday.
Why throw away the pumpkins?
I'm not throwing them away. They weren't ripe enough to eat so they go into the compost pile. The compost will be used to enrich my garden soil.
Those little pumpkins- are they not edible ?
They were not ripe yet. I harvested the ripe ones before the freeze.
Did you say your Salvia? 😂
Gardener scott grows salvia ? Lol
Well, I must say that I am impressed by your optimism and calmness in dealing with half of your garden biting the dust. What area are you in to have such an early frost? BTW, after about 40 years of a summer garden, I'm going to attempt a fall crop. Kale, bok choi, and beets are close to being transplanted.
I'm in Colorado and we occasionally get arctic blasts like that. Enjoy your fall garden.