3 Frost Protection Methods That I Don’t Recommend
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- Опубликовано: 5 авг 2024
- Cold weather is coming, and with it comes frost. Every year we get people wanting to protect their plants with methods that can actually do more harm than good. Check out our new clothing line! http:www.freshpickedapparel.com
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"... like a pillowcase in a hostage situation..." hehehe
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1 frost blanket for light frost, 2 layers for heavy frost. Frost blankets extend the season by ~ 3 weeks. That's a big deal in zone 4.
Amen to that! From what I understand there are 2 thicknesses. Gauged at 17 and 30. The higher the number the better the protection but it also blocks about 30% of the sun light. So far I continue to close up shop on most stuff for the winter and give the land and myself a break. I use the frost protection in the Spring for all the new plantings. Hats off to all you who take the effort to protect your plants from mother nature. I'm dreaming of greenhouses and high tunnels and catching up on all the other chores that have to be done before Winter hits.
What I love about you is that not only you tell us what to do / not to do, but you always explain why.
Damm it's getting frost...here too in france it's getting soo cold my plants in the Garden are not good now my strawberries is not and tomatoes...I love watching your video...watching from France
Luke would you give us some methods that you would endorse.
rationale behind the plastic bags one is totally bunk. Most frost events go below the dew point anyway.... so a tiny bit of transpiration from the plant at night will not tip any meaningful scale. The moisture in the air is already freezing out. A plastic cover is about trapping ground heat in a bubble around the plant. I've used a plastic cover of many different varieties for years, and they are very effective if you secure it to the soil, same as most other frost protection methods. To avoid possible leaftip burn where the plastic directly touches the leaf, just suspend the plastic on stakes or something.
We got an early snow yesterday in Winnipeg (zone 3B) ❄ Everything is tucked in for winter now! 😊🤞❄
It's 20th of October and I'm getting the last of my tomatoes and feel darn lucky to be doing so in northern Pennsylvania on Lake Erie. Peppers too. I might bring the rosemary inside after this weekend. 💜
A year ago you did a video reflecting the sadness of end of growing season. It was touching and captured the moment. Maybe do another.
Especially this year: gardening provided a positive in our daily routine (plus for all the new gardeners out there). It's hard to let all the positives go.
Thanks for another great video! I was looking forward to a video all day!!!
Thanks! Great video Luke. You are so informative, love your channel!
Thanks for video. Last weekend frost so a reality in western NY. Learned a lot for first time gardener this year.
Thanks for the thorough explanations! I've actually never seen any of these "tricks" before, but I learned a lot about my plants in the debunking process anyways!
I cant say im envious of your weather. im in 8a so im in the post hot second season with a lot of brassicas starting to get big. And my second set of tomatoes and peppers exploding. My favorite though is the chance to grow more radishes and carrots a second time this year.
Luke can you repost this video in January. That's when the frost hits southern Louisiana. 😆
Also good idea to look into a wet bulb temperature and how humidity levels can affect using water.
Working on my greenhouse here in Ohio while listening to you. Should've done this before it got so cold. Frost will be here soon as well 😫 ❄❄❄❄❄❄❄
Keep all the Cold and snow up there in michigan. Thanks for sharing
I just joined your channel! Thanks for the great practical information.
Dont envy you in winter. I MOVED TO desert of az. Not do for frost for 2 to 3 months. Unles unusual col winter. Love your seeds, and videos. Thank you!
When you're watching this realising you use evaporative cooling to increase chill hours here down under.
Good video. It always amazes me the ideas gardeners come up with. Do you wrap your fig tree or protect it in any way to overwinter? What variety is it? I would love to grow one but am in northern VT but would like to give one a try. We’ve already had a number of light frosts and about 3 harder frosts. Only have carrots, some beets and a couple cabbages left in the garden. Thanks.
Thank you Luke for very interesting information 😀🤔
Hello from a Canadian garden/soil scientist youtuber ❤️🇨🇦
Lots of us stayed to the end for your recommendations regards to this common issue... I guess a green house with a water misting systems on a timer including a heater?
So helpful! Thank you! But oh my goodness... like a pillowcase in a hostage sitch.... omg!!!!LOL
Hi Luke! I'd really like to see a trial of all the methods, if you have enough plants.
The key to frost protection is preventing evaporation which is what cools the air around the ground. As long as you keep the humidity high in the air you won’t get frost till you properly go below 32F.
The ground itself is warm especially if it’s decomposing you can use a cover to extend the season a ton!
Same principle of mist in a greenhouse. The mist absorbs the heat(energy) and helps cool / lower the temperature.
Great advice
Kind of off topic but i was wondering if you could do a video on varieties of common cool weather crops you would recommend that are bolt resistant. Here in southern VA we just don't have gradually cooling weather in autumn anymore, autumn is always full of wild temperature swings one way or the other until winter finally takes over.
I live in Michigan and the forecast calls for a low of 45 degrees. It's kind of confusing trying to figure out if some plants should be protected, so especially since you deal with the much of same weather, I think a good video would be on how to deal with cold temperatures that are warmer than Frost. This could be based on what you have planted, or whether and not it has fruit on it yet, assuming those factors make a difference.
I had to chuckle since many of us gardeners know the precise hour the first light frost sets in. No sign of that in Germany so far; more summer-like temps are coming for a few days so I hope to harvest some more tomatoes and other veg that's still ripening before I sow out the winter-hardy leafy greens. I've never heard of these methods and wouldn't have tried them if I had - yikes!
39 degrees it’s been 89 in Southern California.
I have 80° to 90°+ days still and run the ac. But have chilly nights down to low 40s. Frost will be here soon enough. At 6,000 ft elevation in the desert southwest.
Hello. The best frost protection I have used is a big fluffy comforter. And my mom always told me as a way to reduce frost damage, if you didn't get your plants covered before a frost, to go out ~before~ the sun rose and rinse the frost off your plants. What is your opinion on this method?
Frost protection? We are going to be -2 this Sunday in Wyoming!
Around 7-8F here for SD. I think I’m going to put my portable ice shack up over my kale.
It will be 5° here in high plains of NE Co. Yep. Time to give up on all but two plants. I am picking and cutting them down one by one.
It gets in the 40's and 50's in Phoenix AZ......here for us thaaaaaats cold!!!! Burrr
I would like links to your videos on preventing frost.
Video Topic - how to clean and sharpen garden tools.
Im not sure what to use to clean them or sharpen them.
Hi Luke.i was wondering what your opinion is on using a antitransparent for plants.like a wilt stop or wilt guard.and does it really work. Or should I not waste my money.
Dang! Already getting frost?? I’m still sweating in the garden. Thanks for the videos!
same here in cali
We had snow last week, and 28 degrees last night. Upper Peninsula Michigan.
I was happy that our 90+ degree weather last week went away and we're finally down to the upper 70s here in San Diego. Lol
@@ellenkuang8853 still hitting 90s here in AZ but should be steadily in the 80 in a few days.
It's in the 80s during the day and 60s at night for the next 10 days.
luck that's a good way to put It I would never use plastic on any of my plants when It came to protecting them how do you protect your plants from the cold
So...
You are gonna tell us what you do recommend. Right? 😏
My exact words.....🧐🙏
Use frost cloth/ shade cloth. You can use multiple layers for colder temps.
Or gardening fleece. There are different types, light, medium, heavy ones, You can, if needed, layer them but be always aware, they will reduce the light that comes through to feed Your plants.
Exactly!
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Old Migardener video using black plastic bags.... ☺️ We all keep learning!
Wait!! I missed the part where you show us what does work!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Using a sprinkler worked fine as I didn't lose a single tomato plant in ground when that last frost actually hit 31 degrees
Single digits forecasted for this weekend in SD. Pretty sure even the kale is going to freeze off unfortunately.
I been checking your seed store online every single day, hoping that you’ll will have any seeds available. No luck so far.... When you going to have any seeds available?
Can you give suggestions on what to do to protect against frost? Some fall crops will tolerate but first time gardener so what can be done. I am growing in containers so brought some of my plants into garage when heard frost advisory. Thanks.
Putting them in your garage is good protection if it is insulated. Mine is not and the buckets are too heavy to keep moving in and out. So, I just group the containers together, then wrap the plants with an old sheet, and a second layer with a light quilt, or an old broken sleeping bag (which is perfectly light)... then I cover them with plastic if it's going to rain. I have no problems with them at all. Just make sure they are watered at the roots. One way to kill a plant fast is to leave it dry in a freeze.
Thank you Joanie for advice. I appreciate it.
Curious to know what type of plant you put inside the garbage bag...leaves are exquisite!
It's a fig tree
A plastic bag can also heat stress your plant if left on in the daytime sunshine.
Wish I would have seen this before the Texas freeze. We lost our lemon tree scion
WHAT DO YOU RECOMMEND TO PROTECT LUKE???
So what do you recommend?
What does work? It's cold at night here in CT.
How do I protect from heavy snow?
9" of snow in my garden today
So what is the right way to protect when the frost is coming ? I have one cherry tom. plant that I'm trying to protect so I can get the last of the fruit & there is a lot on the plant. I put two sheets on the plant. If by Wednesday I'll just cut off what fruit is left & bring them into the house. I just hate to loose all that fruit. Zone 5b, SC Iowa.
Over a month ago, I cut all the green tomatoes off my chadwick cherry tomato and brought them in the house. The plant was suffering from the heat & ash here in Cali Zone 9b. All the tomatoes ripened on my counter top and they were delicious. Are your tomatoes close to full size? You might be able to harvest them early and let them ripen indoors. Good luck.
We had a 3 day freeze last month, zone 5a and several multinight low to freezing temps this month. I have two cherry tomato plants saved using a row cover that has approx 8° protection. I put a wool blanket over that. They are strung up, so I am wrapping around and clipping them on. The fruit continues to ripen. At this point, I am picking the tomatoes as soon as they turn blush so the energy will go into ripening the other green ones. Trimmed all branches with no fruit, too, clipped new growth & blossoms.
I also have a late volunteer paste tomato with lots of fruit that grew out of the side of my compost bin. I have placed a piece of rigid fence around it, cover it at night with a wool blanket, then cover that with thick black plastic, strapping them on. It has not suffered a bit!
@@joanies6778 wow! Sounds like you really want those tomatoes! LoL! I don’t blame you. I’ve got some eggplant and bitter melon that are just now putting on fruit and I may be using your wool blanket hack in a few weeks. Zone 9b.
I'm just to the south of Omaha, and I've been picking my cherry tomatoes green - they'll ripen on the counter just as another commenter stated. Ditto for my full size tomatoes. Put them in a paper bag with an apple and they'll ripen faster, due to the ethylene gas that the apple naturally produces.
@@jam_is_jammin Last year I got a late start because of a severe hail storm in late May, then everything wiped out with a freezing, windy night in early Oct. It makes for a short season, so I am just extending it a little longer. We had hail in early June that caused delays in some plant growth. With such eratic weather and extreme night/day temps in the high plains, covering to shield them from strong winds or frost is just a way of gardening for me.
I will take the cherry tomatoes down this week... they were so prolific... making up for last year. But I only had one paste tomato plant, a late volunteer, so it's like gold, and I am milking it until it just says , "enough!". 😆 A few eggplant, a pumpkin, a squash, and zuchini are still growing. I finally removed all the blossoms and extra limbs on the plants to force energy into the fruit. I do leave squash blossoms for the bees... but everything gets a double layer (or more) of covering at night now.
Muito bom gostei muito do seus vídeo
RIP Minnesota just got 4 inches of snow. Bye garden until next year!
What’s are you gonna do with those fig trees? Bring them inside in a green house. Or are they hardy enough they can handle your winter?
I couldn't tell if they were in containers. If so I'm sure he's bringing them inside. If they are in the ground some people wrap them in mesh filled with dry leaves, sometime covered with canvas or cloth etc. once they go dormant to try and protect them. but to be honest that seems tough in his zone. I have a brown turkey here in zone 7 and it dies back a lot each winter (I don't cover it). And brown turkey is one of the hardiest varieties I think.
@@nseetin I heard hardy chicago was pretty hardy too. I have this cultivar and will see if it survives the winter. Cross my fingers
Rost is Midwestern for frost?
WI gardening here. Same thing with frost. Iowa is getting snow.
I have carolina reapers that are still green. They are in raised beds.... big mistake. I should have kept them in pots. Am I screwed? Or is there something I can do to keep them out there for another month?
You can dig the plant up, pot it and bring it inside. Then after you harvest all the peppers, you can prune it for overwintering and transplant it back into your garden after the last frost next year. It's my first year gardening, but I am looking forward to overwintering my peppers, I put them out late and haven't had much fruit. I'm excited about having an head start next year by overwintering this year's peppers.
Maxwell Montgomery hope they are not too tall. Put a hoop tunnel over your raised bed, cover with plastic sheet or frost blanket, open when temp permits.
Frost coming?!?!? We had our first frost 2 months ago. We are covered in snow now
Rost Protection had me a bit confused
Lol, me too.
@HALF MT 🤣
That damned Rost is a real garden killer
Me too. I thought it was a bug.
Me tooooo! Fix that typo!
Where are the tomatoes and peppers, where is the garden? We want to see you put it into practice and try to save actual summer food plants like tomatoes and peppers. We want to see your actual attempts to save tomatoes and peppers from either a light frost or a hard freeze~ "Three frost protection methods that I don't recommend because all my plants were wiped out by frost a month ago"
I've had snow every night this week.
Same
I start some of my plants early and cover them with bushel baskets at night if there is danger of frost...I love having tomatoes before everyone else! ♥️🍅
hope I don't cause more confusion but plants also produce (expire) co2, especially at night. Overall they also use co2 to produce O2 and their overall use of co2 is more than they produce. The previous statements is why most people have difficulty understanding climate change. Nature's mechanisms are fairly simple. their interaction with each other is were complexity starts.
You can
First to say you missed F in FROST!
How is #1 different than laying tarps over your plants to help protect them from frost? Not trying to call you our saying #1 is wrong. What you said makes sense. I'm just confused on how that is different than the tarp method
I don't know what the tarp material is, but i use old cotton bed sheets & that seems to allow the plants to breathe. It works pretty well until it gets super cold. I'm in SE Michigan myself.
@@pz4971 I use sheets and blankets too come January.
plastic DOES work. it's all about trapping the ground heat, which plastic does just fine for a light frost at night.
@@richards5110 It does work. You just have to put stakes around the plants to keep the plastic off the leaves. I do clear plastic.
I should have watched this a week ago. I think i killed my zinnias this way.
I have method to protect banana plants in a temperate climate
Ha I thought your fig died on you awhile ago. And hope you cut the tops mid-season to promote fruit production as I have been eating delicious figs lately
Use salt water! Lol, no don't! But hey salt water has a lower freeze point!
Just to note, plants don't produce oxygen from respiration, they produce CO2 during respiration, its during photosynthesis they produce oxygen
I was Rost but now im found.
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You gotta make them click. No F in the chat.
I complete disagree with your description of the water method. I have used to great advantage many years in a large plot garden with sprinklers. It will protect a few degrees below freezing!!!
Transpiration not respiration surely
Garbage bags are impregnated with insecticide. Not what I want on my plants!
I appreciate your videos, Luke... but you've got the 'energy flow' backwards. Ice freezing does not require energy. Just the opposite, the energy is leaving water as it freezes.
So, the wall of water is adding 'energy' in the form of warm water to the area around the trees. This warm water then releases the energy to the air around the little mist... keeping the air temps higher than the freezing point.
Water has a very high specific heat, meaning that it requires a great deal of energy to increase its temperature, or it can release a great deal of energy as it lowers in temperature.
(Water has a specific heat of over 4,000 Joules/kg for each degree Celsius - so roughly every 2 degrees F. Meanwhile, 'air' has a specific heat of just about 1,000 Joules/kg for each degree Celsius. In other words, Water has 4 times more energy to give to the air PER KILOGRAM. Then, when you consider that water has a density nearly 1000 times greater than air, you can see that a little bit of warm water can go a long way to keeping air temps higher.)
So, rather than the water 'taking' energy to freeze, on the flip side, what is happening is the continual addition of the water in the mist its actually HEATING THE AIR around the trees. But, this only works while the water is being added directly to the air around the trees, which is why they have to run the misters the entire time.
And by misting the UNDERSIDE of the trees, the warmer air will then rise through the tree canopy to protect it from frost (remember, hot air is less dense than colder air), and as new colder air replaces the warmer air (from the sides), the mist then heats that air, creating a wonderful little convection current to keep the trees surrounded by warmer air rises through its branches and protecting the leaves/fruits, which are much more vulnerable to frost than the trunk.
can you do a video on chinese toona or toona sinesis because my mums Chinese friend gave us three and they are all slowly dying