My yard currently looks like a tornado touched down with blankets, buckets, plastic totes, and tarps covering everything right now. Ain’t no rest for the early planters…
Haha, I tried to prep for it Friday, but didn't take in account for "wind gusts " and spent way too much time chasing down my preps. Some... never to be seen again, unless the naborhood figures out where THAT must of come from... Blessings
Always interesting and sometimes quirky musical intros, chemtrail truth, barefoot, and naming your dog something extremely unconventional. All Notifications from now on it is! Thanks for doing what you do.
@The Survival Gardening Channel with David The Good - I've watched you a long time and rarely leave comments. I turned this video on and the minute you said "chemtrail", you won my heart forever. It is real. It is happening everywhere. Im in Tulsa and there are few days where they arent spraying their poison over our skies. I am old enough to remember what the skies used to look like.....and it ain't this. Thank you David The Good. Thank you for having the courage to speak out.
Here in Texas last week, they were busy marking up the sky more than usual. I was doing the freez bed sheet thing just minutes ago. How long will winter last? I just read about the crazy psychopaths releasing mosquitoes over Florida and California. Digital passports next.
I told my husband…this weekend’s weather is enough to make you think the geo engineering folks and/or little ice age people are on to something. We’re seeing January lows this weekend.
@Natasha yes there is something to it. I have been watching the sky for 2 years now, and it is almost like clock work. I listen to Michael Tellinger, and he says frequency and resonance are the key to growing food with little water abundantly.
I used moldy bales of hay to surround my plants with a sheet across the top. Little villiages of Big Bad Wolf pig huts. They worked so well but only when I remembered to removed the sheets during the day. Ooops!
We had such intense wind I couldn't cover anything. 16°F for the low, wind chills down in the single digits. Greenhouse dropped down to 34°F with a heater running in there because if the wind. Was 70+°F yesterday and all last week here in NE AL. Enough to make a gardener cry.
The weather guessers are saying 29°, tonight. It is generally 5° lower at my house. I'm expecting 24 or 25° and 20 mph winds. Sheets don't do sheet here. They just catch the wind and break stuff. 5 gallon buckets upside down and weighted with a brick, over a couple dozen plants, and a couple dozen more to put in the living room. Trees are on their own.
We are doing our best to push the zone here in our little Texas backyard. I’ve scrounged for old sheets and blankets and gotten creative to hold them down from this harsh wind. I set up a bucket with a fishtank heater for extra warmth. We might see 27° tonight and up to 81° in a few days. It’s a bit frustrating.
I feel your pain ha, south TX here. Hope it works out for you, a sheet saved my mango tree not too long ago. Neat idea with the heater, use what you got.
@@renee_miller Yes, growing up in Florida, my parents and others did the sprinkler ice glaze on fruit trees when we had unusually cold weather. The only “winter wonderland” I ever experienced as a kid. Lol.
You might want to submit some extracts from your books to Permaculture Design book (a US publication). They are having a hard time finding authors to write actual articles on gardening, permaculture-style. They don't pay (last time I checked) but it would increase your visibility in the permaculture community... Hopefully all went well for you and your viewers.
I haven't had a whole lot of time lately for watching the Tube but I'm sure glad I sat this morning to watch while I ate breakfast. It lit a fire in me to get out there and save all the wonderful garden goodies God has given to us. Praying I stay with a heart of surrender to Him for His surpassing peace no matter what the outcome. Either way I will praise Him. I bless you!
Already had moved all my tropicals out of the makeshift greenhouse about two weeks ago. Also many of my fruit plants are awakening. Wonderful...definitely my work cut out for me today protecting everything. Fun, fun, fun but it's a labor of love.
I’m so sad that we are going to loose our pears, loquats, mulberries…it’s been so beautiful. I’m trying to think about the positives and use this as a learning experience. And I’ll make biscuits to comfort myself!
I think that’s called a duvet - it’s designed to hold a comforter inside of it, then button it back up. When it’s time to clean the sheets, unbutton the duvet and wash only the outer cover. It protects the comforter. But also allows you to change the decor of the room when the comforter is still good.
Pine straw on top of sweet potatoes. Brilliant! Pulled off tarp and put down pine straw. My well installer also told me to put pine straw in well cover for insulation. Love watching your channel
David the Goat!! asparagus grazing gardener. I love it!!! Thanks for another informative video that made me laugh when the the world around me is crashing and burning. I will name one of my goat kids after you.
Hi David, It might be of benefit to start planting any really sensitive fruit trees in pots that can be removed from the rows if necessary due to weather or light requirements. The deep frost hardy trees and fruit bushes could either be in ground to take advantage of fertilization of beds or grown in pots. I may try that with some of my corn this year as well. Growing corn (sweet, flint, dent, popcorn) all in pots (4 to a pot) at the Northern or Western end of the row garden in order for better maintenance and then moving them if weather dictates or to avoid cross pollination if there's any overlap in tasseling. Another idea I may try is putting a tunnel frame or t- posts of some type down each row so that greenhouse plastic can be thrown over the entire row. I really hope your garden survives and thrives. Any uncovered non-hardy plants that survive would make great region specific selections for seeds. Best Wishes, Tiffany
We had a cold snap in Jan and a 2 day frost. got some burn lost some peppers. Going to invest in some Christmas tree lights this year . String them in my newly planted fruit trees, then duvet cover it and turn the lights on if there is a frost again. Where I live it’s rare . SW FL.
I have done that in the past worked well, I co reed my mango and avocados with some lights under .kept them alive. Also in SWFL, and have a lot of high wind today
It's amazing how cold it suddenly got, thanks for the tips! We try and cover are plants with whatever we got, and our potted plants are put in our garage. 😅
Great video David! Got to 33 early this morning, and will be 25-26 tonight for us. It was in the 70s yesterday lol. It is crazy. I've covered all my stuff with old sheets and it seems to work well. I also have some old insulated curtains, those work well also, just have to make sure the weight isn't on some stuff. So ready for April already! I currently have 20+ tomato babies on my dining room table, very glad I didnt put them in the beds yet. That march freeze always sneaks up on us!
I would always respect your emotional experience. It's tragic when your plants get wiped out. When I was hardening seedlings off last year we dipped into a late frost in May. Luckily I was hardening off brassicas and tomatoes so the little guys were pretty hard when the cold hit. Gardening is a true labor of love.
Yeah, I watch Konstantin in Russia too and he's really struggling because of everything. He says most companies have left Russia and he can't even get good tea anymore. His emotional experience is palpable too.
Yes the weather has become crazy! I'm a littl stunned that it's going to be that cold as far down as you are, We can't tell what the weather will do next! We haven't planted anything here in middle Tn (other than garlic & onions &such planted in Oct/Nov.), but we also had a good snow last night out of this cold front moving thru. 69 degrees friday midday, snow ing by 8pm... We deal alot with frost and sudden cold spells as you prob remember. I remember you saying you had lived in some part of TN...Once the ground warms up, things close to the ground doesn't seem to be effected. Especially if its growing in a low spot or next to something taller... Good luck on the frost covers !God Bless
I like turtles.😁🌱🐢 Its weather control man! 30-40 degree swing in a day,that is crazy. I've done all I can. The seedlings are put inside and the adults plants will have to "grow or die". Y'all keep warm and love each other.
We are getting WIND with the cold temps. and tons of rain beforehand.I was hoping running a sprinkler over the peach trees would at least keep them from not going below 32 degrees. The cloud seeding that they do creates chemical ice nucleation when it rains. So rather than the plants feeling normal freezing temps, they feel much colder temps as if they were covered with dry ice. So I thought by constantly running a sprinkler of regular town water (minus the chemicals and heavy metals) over the fruit trees, they'd be insulated at 32 degrees.
I am getting disgusted with the weather. So I decided to dig up a new garden bed and plant all my potted plants in the ground. It was my first time using my homemade compost and my weed fertilizer! I might have diluted it too much but I did it!!! I think the soil from the compost pile was very exciting! I sprinkled some tomato and veg and herb fertilizer. I picked out walnut shells that were buried and tilled up the rock hard soil and then put a mix of weird soil and lots of soil from bottom of my compost pile! It smelled so good like nothing. Then I got my jar of mixed beans and planted a new bunch all around the perimeter! Thanks for encouraging me to try new stuff. And the fetid swamp water really brought the bees and flies out!
Came back to hear some sweet music again! and to be grateful, all my trees and plants survived, I have 3 baby pineapples, they were clothed in heavy pillowcases! All my covers were successful, thanks to the humane society thrift sheets, along with some I had from prior years...great advice! Thank you.
I will be looking forward to the 'aftermath' video. I live in zone 9b in FL and have a hard time with my trees as well. When the freeze hit last month I thought we lost some stuff, but everything is beginning to recover. Some stuff like a starfruit and sugar apple got knocked back a year or so, but they are still alive.
Yeah, here on the southern end of the Cumberland Plateau TN I woke up to 20 deg after 68 yesterday 😯. Even though peas, kale and onions are pretty cold tolerant I covered them anyway. The only fruit I was even a little worried about was my blueberries, the bud are just starting to open but no leaves yet. Not sure about my hazelnut also. AND the door of my heated greenhouse got blown open but thank God it only dropped to 36, hopefully the more tender stuff made it. This is nuts... it happened last year too in April...not sure how to mitigate this crazy trend.
North Georgia here. 65 this afternoon 24 in the morning and 1-3 inches of snow. All my fruit trees are budding or flowering. I covered what I could and hope for the best.
Best of luck in the freeze! I spent the day doing the same prevention as you. I'm happy to see that I was on the right track! I like a blanket when it's cold and so do the strawberries!!!
Man i agree this “weather” is just super weird , it was so windy here in socal last night it was making the house make noises i kept waiting to hear a tree snap but they all survived and my plum and apricot trees that have blooms got the fruit thinned out naturally 🤠
My first year in East Tn. I love it but the weather is crazy. It was in the 60's and sunny the last two days, then 3 inches of snow overnight and freezing now with a low of 15 tonight! I only planted some lettuce, beet and pea seeds so far (they might be done for) but the weather swing is just crazy. Supposed to be back in the 70's by the end of the week, hopefully no more super hard freezes after tonight.
Great video. We were talking about the same thing with this manufactured non-natural weather and rushed to do the same to protect all of our new growth. Thanks for sharing!
We've been going through the same thing up here in Delaware.. 60s, 40s, 80, 30s, 50s, 20s... Every day is like waking up in a different state!!! Good thing you don't have much wind. We've definitely been through that a lot. We have to weight all our sheets down with big 10lb rocks in every corner and pray the wind doesn't cause to much abrasion underneath 🙏🏽 Best of luck to you and your family!
We're supposed to get to 32 tonight. The only seedlings outside are carrot, beet, and radish. Maybe a cilantro or two. They're in a tote with kitchen scraps buried under them and a compost bucket in the tote. Enough warmth for cold hardy crops or should I cover? Part of me wants to see if they're survivors. The other part realizes this is the first time I've had success with beets and carrots sprouting lol Also, I read that fish fertilizer can raise a plants cold tolerance by a few degrees. I asked at an organic gardening class I took and the guy said it was true. Something about the plant converts the fish sludge to alcohol and alcohol doesn't freeze like water...I dunno but now seems like a great time to experiment.
Thank you for sharing this. I was unsure of how to prepare for tomorrow's freeze. This is my 2nd year gardening but first year that I've really put in a lot of effort. I was so happy to see that you posted this today because I have to prepare the garden tomorrow. I waited for the last frost date to transplant my seedlings but here we are lol. Stupid chem trails lolol.
I'm in North Texas zone 8a by way of NY. So I get with this strange weather we're having. Thank you so much for sharing this. You may have just saved my blooming peach tree. 👍🏾
Here close to TN (KY) we had 60s/ 70s and then Saturday 18 degrees and 8 inches of snow. Yes, it’s sad to have things blooming and then a hard freeze. Then back to 65 degrees again. Crazy weather!
My work crew is my little tractor. I have lots of trees/plants in pots until planting time. All on pallets; with the forks I can lift and take into the 2-car garage. Some of your viewers don't have wives, David. Your tomato seedlings will get smoked with just a little bit of plant material on them though.
It would be interesting to watch you do kind of a reaction to The Martin sometime. Just like things you think Watney did right, did wrong, things that were realistic vs unrealistic.
Hope you didn't the wind we had last night! I'm north east of Pensacola and the wind started in the middle of the night and still hasn't stopped at 7am.
No David it's French. Un Vet is twin size Du Vet is queen size and Oy Vey is what happens when your wife realizes all of the kids sheets are in the garden instead of on their beds.
Hour south of you, and I did go ham on planting all the things the last two weekends... looking forward to seeing what makes it and what doesn't (I fear for the kumquats and other citrus the most)
I'm so glad you covered potatoes! Thank you, maybe I can save some, already lost all the peaches in the last freeze. Tree's to big 😁 maybe you can do a video on pruning older peach trees next
We’re allegedly getting down to 21 here to tonight…that’s January weather for us. I did a lot of preparation today and will spend most of today outside making cold weather preps. I have two inexpensive aquarium heaters. I’m putting them in a 5 gallon bucket of water apiece under the covers with the things I value most.
We've had this happen numerous times in my life. A warm February we end up getting that freak ice/snow storm in mid March. In 93 I believe it was March 12th we had snow all the way into the panhandle of Florida. I remember it well because I was a Deputy Sheriff at the time and didn't get back home for 2 days. I've been Turkey hunting on the 1st day on March 20th and had it snow...I'm near the pan handle, so this is nothing new. Weather warfare is real, and this may or may not be weather manipulation. Idk...
I live in SD…. we have snow in May sometimes. I’m originally from Colorado, where we had snow in July. I wasn’t a gardener then so I didn’t really care so much!
Facing the same frost you are. I keep my eyes on the pecan trees. No spring planting until the pecan trees leaf out. I had an old north FL farmer tell me this years ago!
Well I covered everything for the freeze. I lost 5 of the 20 tomato plants and 4 of the cucumbers. The rest faired pretty well. Thank goodness I have more ready to plant in the greenhouse.
I live south of Atlanta it was 84 a few days ago it was 19 last night.friday. today the wind is blowing and get ready for tonight.You can take your flip-flops off.
Duvet means "down" as in goose or duck or other fowl unercoat of feathers. Also, "peach fuzz". Goose down in a large pillowy bed cover, then needs a huge ’pillowcase, we call it a duvet cover. I guess you shortened it in the us to simply duvet.
I am in California zone 8b. Our weather is very similar to yours. I’ve been wanting to plant stuff but same problem, warm during the day and freezing at night. Main difference is that we have had consistent lows in the low 30s so I’ve refrained from planting. These beautiful mid 70’s days make it difficult not to plant and the trees all woke up already. We had a freeze a couple weeks ago down to 23 degrees and all my fruit trees that were in full bloom surprisingly came through like champs.
Interesting, I set up my orchard with asparagus, berries, and fruit trees interspersed with just enough spacing, perhaps a bit of comp, but it is 50x60ft of almost all food/herbs/flowers.
Same being done up North in WI. Hot cold with chemtrails. Praying to my trees not to wake up yet...going into 50s this week and we will lose our protective snow cover AGAIN. Then down to freezing again. Shouldn't be this warm until end of May.
Garden Heat: amzn.to/3t4mrJa
T-shirt idea you guys should definitely make: "and may your thumbs always be green" - David the Good
@@jenreelitz8766 Good idea!
I see you walk around bare foot. What do you do against fire ants? Texas ants are little evil dinosaurs.
Still waiting for an e-book version...
@@henriknylund5266 me too!
My yard currently looks like a tornado touched down with blankets, buckets, plastic totes, and tarps covering everything right now.
Ain’t no rest for the early planters…
Haha... true
Haha, I tried to prep for it Friday, but didn't take in account for "wind gusts " and spent way too much time chasing down my preps. Some... never to be seen again, unless the naborhood figures out where THAT must of come from...
Blessings
@@bethraisbeck368 same haha
May your duvets do their double duty and save your beautiful trees 💚
Always interesting and sometimes quirky musical intros, chemtrail truth, barefoot, and naming your dog something extremely unconventional. All Notifications from now on it is! Thanks for doing what you do.
Thank you.
@The Survival Gardening Channel with David The Good - I've watched you a long time and rarely leave comments. I turned this video on and the minute you said "chemtrail", you won my heart forever. It is real. It is happening everywhere. Im in Tulsa and there are few days where they arent spraying their poison over our skies. I am old enough to remember what the skies used to look like.....and it ain't this. Thank you David The Good. Thank you for having the courage to speak out.
Here in Texas last week, they were busy marking up the sky more than usual. I was doing the freez bed sheet thing just minutes ago. How long will winter last? I just read about the crazy psychopaths releasing mosquitoes over Florida and California. Digital passports next.
I told my husband…this weekend’s weather is enough to make you think the geo engineering folks and/or little ice age people are on to something. We’re seeing January lows this weekend.
@Natasha yes there is something to it. I have been watching the sky for 2 years now, and it is almost like clock work. I listen to Michael Tellinger, and he says frequency and resonance are the key to growing food with little water abundantly.
I had a rabbit decimate a bunch of seedlings in my veggie garden last night, and I was like, well, less to worry about tomorrow night.
Your Geoff Lawton impression at 17:36 was great 😆
I feel your pain! Covering my fruit bushes and trees tomorrow. It’s going to look like a ghost convention tomorrow night!
I ain't afraid of no ghost!
I used moldy bales of hay to surround my plants with a sheet across the top. Little villiages of Big Bad Wolf pig huts. They worked so well but only when I remembered to removed the sheets during the day. Ooops!
Haha great idea! Little pig villages
We had such intense wind I couldn't cover anything. 16°F for the low, wind chills down in the single digits. Greenhouse dropped down to 34°F with a heater running in there because if the wind. Was 70+°F yesterday and all last week here in NE AL. Enough to make a gardener cry.
That is terrible!
The weather guessers are saying 29°, tonight. It is generally 5° lower at my house. I'm expecting 24 or 25° and 20 mph winds. Sheets don't do sheet here.
They just catch the wind and break stuff.
5 gallon buckets upside down and weighted with a brick, over a couple dozen plants, and a couple dozen more to put in the living room. Trees are on their own.
We are doing our best to push the zone here in our little Texas backyard. I’ve scrounged for old sheets and blankets and gotten creative to hold them down from this harsh wind. I set up a bucket with a fishtank heater for extra warmth. We might see 27° tonight and up to 81° in a few days. It’s a bit frustrating.
I feel your pain ha, south TX here. Hope it works out for you, a sheet saved my mango tree not too long ago. Neat idea with the heater, use what you got.
Have u heard of the icing method for fruit trees? I saw someone did it last year here in Indiana and they got good fruit.
@@renee_miller Yes, growing up in Florida, my parents and others did the sprinkler ice glaze on fruit trees when we had unusually cold weather. The only “winter wonderland” I ever experienced as a kid. Lol.
You might want to submit some extracts from your books to Permaculture Design book (a US publication). They are having a hard time finding authors to write actual articles on gardening, permaculture-style. They don't pay (last time I checked) but it would increase your visibility in the permaculture community...
Hopefully all went well for you and your viewers.
Thank you. I would be happy to talk with them.
@@davidthegood
You bet. A lot of people submitting late are writing far afield of permaculture principles and trying to hijack the movement...
I haven't had a whole lot of time lately for watching the Tube but I'm sure glad I sat this morning to watch while I ate breakfast. It lit a fire in me to get out there and save all the wonderful garden goodies God has given to us. Praying I stay with a heart of surrender to Him for His surpassing peace no matter what the outcome. Either way I will praise Him.
I bless you!
The star of the show was definitely the little girl. She looks just like her mommy 💐
May your thumbs... Not freeze and fall off 👍
Already had moved all my tropicals out of the makeshift greenhouse about two weeks ago. Also many of my fruit plants are awakening. Wonderful...definitely my work cut out for me today protecting everything. Fun, fun, fun but it's a labor of love.
Same here 70 then down to 10 with snow now tomorrow back to 50 then 60 then 70 ...messing with the plants 👍 see yall soon
I’m so sad that we are going to loose our pears, loquats, mulberries…it’s been so beautiful. I’m trying to think about the positives and use this as a learning experience. And I’ll make biscuits to comfort myself!
I love biscuits! Someone sing the biscuit song please.😁
Have u heard of the icing method for fruit trees? I saw someone did it last year here in Indiana and they got good fruit.
The biscuit song is my jam! And I have heard of running sprinklers on trees…is that what you’re referring to Renee?
I think that’s called a duvet - it’s designed to hold a comforter inside of it, then button it back up. When it’s time to clean the sheets, unbutton the duvet and wash only the outer cover. It protects the comforter. But also allows you to change the decor of the room when the comforter is still good.
I could button up peaches inside of it, then.
Your so blessed with all those beautiful children and they are so much help!
You can get a lot of cheap sheets at yard sales and especially at estate sales. Usually $1 to $2. Unless they've gone up due to inflation!
Pine straw on top of sweet potatoes. Brilliant! Pulled off tarp and put down pine straw. My well installer also told me to put pine straw in well cover for insulation. Love watching your channel
Awesome!
David the Goat!! asparagus grazing gardener. I love it!!! Thanks for another informative video that made me laugh when the the world around me is crashing and burning. I will name one of my goat kids after you.
LOL, every garden channel actually does need a dog, they become celebrities. Makes me money, lol.
I thought of you when he said that lol
Phoebe love!!
I did too!!!
Good luck David, I like the approach! Earth oven technique, plenty of sheets, cross your fingers.
I have a volunteer tomato that is about 2’ tall right now. It has been growing all winter.
If it isn’t going to get too low you can always go to the dollar tree and use a shower curtain … one of my grandmas tricks
Hi David,
It might be of benefit to start planting any really sensitive fruit trees in pots that can be removed from the rows if necessary due to weather or light requirements. The deep frost hardy trees and fruit bushes could either be in ground to take advantage of fertilization of beds or grown in pots.
I may try that with some of my corn this year as well. Growing corn (sweet, flint, dent, popcorn) all in pots (4 to a pot) at the Northern or Western end of the row garden in order for better maintenance and then moving them if weather dictates or to avoid cross pollination if there's any overlap in tasseling.
Another idea I may try is putting a tunnel frame or t- posts of some type down each row so that greenhouse plastic can be thrown over the entire row.
I really hope your garden survives and thrives. Any uncovered non-hardy plants that survive would make great region specific selections for seeds.
Best Wishes,
Tiffany
We had a cold snap in Jan and a 2 day frost. got some burn lost some peppers. Going to invest in some Christmas tree lights this year . String them in my newly planted fruit trees, then duvet cover it and turn the lights on if there is a frost again. Where I live it’s rare . SW FL.
Great Idea! NE Florida
I have done that in the past worked well, I co reed my mango and avocados with some lights under .kept them alive. Also in SWFL, and have a lot of high wind today
It's amazing how cold it suddenly got, thanks for the tips! We try and cover are plants with whatever we got, and our potted plants are put in our garage. 😅
I buy sheets from my local Goodwill. Usually 25c each and last a few seasons
Author, U tuber, and so much more DTG!🕊 Thanks for sharing.
Florabama baby! It’s always been like this. Last cold snap is titanic day-April 15.
Last tentative frost date here in Maine, zone 5b, is May 1st.
Hope those sheets stay in place. Winds are crazy here in Louisiana today and blew out tarps off our blood orange tree overnight.
I was scampering around do the same thing! No doubt, all that saw the decor were envious!
Great video David! Got to 33 early this morning, and will be 25-26 tonight for us. It was in the 70s yesterday lol. It is crazy.
I've covered all my stuff with old sheets and it seems to work well. I also have some old insulated curtains, those work well also, just have to make sure the weight isn't on some stuff. So ready for April already!
I currently have 20+ tomato babies on my dining room table, very glad I didnt put them in the beds yet. That march freeze always sneaks up on us!
I would always respect your emotional experience. It's tragic when your plants get wiped out. When I was hardening seedlings off last year we dipped into a late frost in May. Luckily I was hardening off brassicas and tomatoes so the little guys were pretty hard when the cold hit. Gardening is a true labor of love.
Yeah, I watch Konstantin in Russia too and he's really struggling because of everything. He says most companies have left Russia and he can't even get good tea anymore. His emotional experience is palpable too.
Yes the weather has become crazy! I'm a littl stunned that it's going to be that cold as far down as you are, We can't tell what the weather will do next! We haven't planted anything here in middle Tn (other than garlic & onions &such planted in Oct/Nov.), but we also had a good snow last night out of this cold front moving thru. 69 degrees friday midday, snow ing by 8pm... We deal alot with frost and sudden cold spells as you prob remember. I remember you saying you had lived in some part of TN...Once the ground warms up, things close to the ground doesn't seem to be effected. Especially if its growing in a low spot or next to something taller... Good luck on the frost covers !God Bless
I have a small orchard ~20 trees, and the ground cover with clovers and grasses was green throughout -15 Celsius for days.
I like turtles.😁🌱🐢
Its weather control man! 30-40 degree swing in a day,that is crazy.
I've done all I can. The seedlings are put inside and the adults plants will have to "grow or die". Y'all keep warm and love each other.
We are getting WIND with the cold temps. and tons of rain beforehand.I was hoping running a sprinkler over the peach trees would at least keep them from not going below 32 degrees. The cloud seeding that they do creates chemical ice nucleation when it rains. So rather than the plants feeling normal freezing temps, they feel much colder temps as if they were covered with dry ice. So I thought by constantly running a sprinkler of regular town water (minus the chemicals and heavy metals) over the fruit trees, they'd be insulated at 32 degrees.
I am getting disgusted with the weather. So I decided to dig up a new garden bed and plant all my potted plants in the ground. It was my first time using my homemade compost and my weed fertilizer! I might have diluted it too much but I did it!!! I think the soil from the compost pile was very exciting! I sprinkled some tomato and veg and herb fertilizer. I picked out walnut shells that were buried and tilled up the rock hard soil and then put a mix of weird soil and lots of soil from bottom of my compost pile! It smelled so good like nothing. Then I got my jar of mixed beans and planted a new bunch all around the perimeter! Thanks for encouraging me to try new stuff. And the fetid swamp water really brought the bees and flies out!
Came back to hear some sweet music again! and to be grateful, all my trees and plants survived, I have 3 baby pineapples, they were clothed in heavy pillowcases! All my covers were successful, thanks to the humane society thrift sheets, along with some I had from prior years...great advice! Thank you.
You have no idea how much I respect your emotional experiences! 😂
I will be looking forward to the 'aftermath' video. I live in zone 9b in FL and have a hard time with my trees as well. When the freeze hit last month I thought we lost some stuff, but everything is beginning to recover. Some stuff like a starfruit and sugar apple got knocked back a year or so, but they are still alive.
Yeah, here on the southern end of the Cumberland Plateau TN I woke up to 20 deg after 68 yesterday 😯. Even though peas, kale and onions are pretty cold tolerant I covered them anyway. The only fruit I was even a little worried about was my blueberries, the bud are just starting to open but no leaves yet. Not sure about my hazelnut also. AND the door of my heated greenhouse got blown open but thank God it only dropped to 36, hopefully the more tender stuff made it. This is nuts... it happened last year too in April...not sure how to mitigate this crazy trend.
I'm facing the same weather here in my Georgia 7b zone. . We have fickle weather here. I wish you and your family and garden the best.
North Georgia here. 65 this afternoon 24 in the morning and 1-3 inches of snow. All my fruit trees are budding or flowering. I covered what I could and hope for the best.
You could always just huddle your containers together in a corner where the wind won't get them. The bigger ones will protect the smaller ones.
Best of luck in the freeze! I spent the day doing the same prevention as you. I'm happy to see that I was on the right track! I like a blanket when it's cold and so do the strawberries!!!
We are in SC. My husband is making smudge pots for the orchard. I pray it works.
Good luck!
@@davidthegood The temp got down to 17 this morning. Oh well.
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Man i agree this “weather” is just super weird , it was so windy here in socal last night it was making the house make noises i kept waiting to hear a tree snap but they all survived and my plum and apricot trees that have blooms got the fruit thinned out naturally 🤠
My first year in East Tn. I love it but the weather is crazy. It was in the 60's and sunny the last two days, then 3 inches of snow overnight and freezing now with a low of 15 tonight! I only planted some lettuce, beet and pea seeds so far (they might be done for) but the weather swing is just crazy. Supposed to be back in the 70's by the end of the week, hopefully no more super hard freezes after tonight.
Good luck with your garden. We are expecting 27 here so we covered what we could.
Have you considered using smudge pots? Farmers here in CA use them to protect the avocado trees.
I feel ya. Here in the Dallas Texas area, we have had several 50 degree drops this winter...75 degrees one day dropping to 25 degrees the next day.
Great video. We were talking about the same thing with this manufactured non-natural weather and rushed to do the same to protect all of our new growth. Thanks for sharing!
We've been going through the same thing up here in Delaware.. 60s, 40s, 80, 30s, 50s, 20s... Every day is like waking up in a different state!!! Good thing you don't have much wind. We've definitely been through that a lot. We have to weight all our sheets down with big 10lb rocks in every corner and pray the wind doesn't cause to much abrasion underneath 🙏🏽 Best of luck to you and your family!
We're supposed to get to 32 tonight.
The only seedlings outside are carrot, beet, and radish. Maybe a cilantro or two.
They're in a tote with kitchen scraps buried under them and a compost bucket in the tote. Enough warmth for cold hardy crops or should I cover?
Part of me wants to see if they're survivors. The other part realizes this is the first time I've had success with beets and carrots sprouting lol
Also, I read that fish fertilizer can raise a plants cold tolerance by a few degrees. I asked at an organic gardening class I took and the guy said it was true. Something about the plant converts the fish sludge to alcohol and alcohol doesn't freeze like water...I dunno but now seems like a great time to experiment.
I am being just a little late planting this year because I sensed the craziness coming...
Thank you for sharing this. I was unsure of how to prepare for tomorrow's freeze. This is my 2nd year gardening but first year that I've really put in a lot of effort. I was so happy to see that you posted this today because I have to prepare the garden tomorrow. I waited for the last frost date to transplant my seedlings but here we are lol. Stupid chem trails lolol.
Here in East Texas Row covers are in place. I use upside down pots over cabbage. Citrus trees are back in the garage!
I'm in North Texas zone 8a by way of NY. So I get with this strange weather we're having. Thank you so much for sharing this. You may have just saved my blooming peach tree. 👍🏾
By way of new York! 🤣🤣
As always, you’ve got it covered.
Here close to TN (KY) we had 60s/ 70s and then Saturday 18 degrees and 8 inches of snow. Yes, it’s sad to have things blooming and then a hard freeze. Then back to 65 degrees again. Crazy weather!
My work crew is my little tractor. I have lots of trees/plants in pots until planting time. All on pallets; with the forks I can lift and take into the 2-car garage. Some of your viewers don't have wives, David. Your tomato seedlings will get smoked with just a little bit of plant material on them though.
It would be interesting to watch you do kind of a reaction to The Martin sometime. Just like things you think Watney did right, did wrong, things that were realistic vs unrealistic.
Great idea.
Hope you didn't the wind we had last night! I'm north east of Pensacola and the wind started in the middle of the night and still hasn't stopped at 7am.
No David it's French. Un Vet is twin size Du Vet is queen size and Oy Vey is what happens when your wife realizes all of the kids sheets are in the garden instead of on their beds.
I’m in southeast Alabama and it looks like I will be doing this as well. My citrus and other fruits are blooming so nicely.
Good luck!
Very informative. I've been wondering how to tackle this hopefully last frost in Citrus county Florida. This storm before I guess is a good thing
Hour south of you, and I did go ham on planting all the things the last two weekends... looking forward to seeing what makes it and what doesn't (I fear for the kumquats and other citrus the most)
Brilliant idea on uncovering the mulched tree for warmth 😀
I learned that from the citrus growers in FL.
I'm so glad you covered potatoes! Thank you, maybe I can save some, already lost all the peaches in the last freeze. Tree's to big 😁 maybe you can do a video on pruning older peach trees next
Have u heard of the icing method for fruit trees? I saw someone did it last year here in Indiana and they got good fruit.
@@renee_miller I don't know if it freezes long enough -only about 2-3 hours, thanks! I had forgotten all about it 🤦♀️
I in southwest Ala, tried to protect everything, Last night the wind blew 43mph gust, many things got uncovered. use a lot of clothes pin if you can.
We’re allegedly getting down to 21 here to tonight…that’s January weather for us. I did a lot of preparation today and will spend most of today outside making cold weather preps. I have two inexpensive aquarium heaters. I’m putting them in a 5 gallon bucket of water apiece under the covers with the things I value most.
We've had this happen numerous times in my life. A warm February we end up getting that freak ice/snow storm in mid March. In 93 I believe it was March 12th we had snow all the way into the panhandle of Florida. I remember it well because I was a Deputy Sheriff at the time and didn't get back home for 2 days. I've been Turkey hunting on the 1st day on March 20th and had it snow...I'm near the pan handle, so this is nothing new. Weather warfare is real, and this may or may not be weather manipulation. Idk...
I live in SD…. we have snow in May sometimes. I’m originally from Colorado, where we had snow in July. I wasn’t a gardener then so I didn’t really care so much!
i loved this style of video, got a better idea of what your garden looks like this way
Facing the same frost you are. I keep my eyes on the pecan trees. No spring planting until the pecan trees leaf out. I had an old north FL farmer tell me this years ago!
The old farmers are the best source of local info.
Thanks for sharing your children's are beautiful
It's a duvet, a double layer sheet with buttons basically
I'm doing the same, we're getting the weather tonight.
Yay I got a t-shirt DFSW!!!!
Love your books and I have that shirt and love it.
Well I covered everything for the freeze. I lost 5 of the 20 tomato plants and 4 of the cucumbers. The rest faired pretty well. Thank goodness I have more ready to plant in the greenhouse.
I am going out to look today - we'll see how things fared.
The mangy dog birthday present story is priceless 🤣 love your channel!
that's a great story David on the dog i have 3 that were all recue dogs.
I feel your pain.
The last to weeks have been 40-70, 40-80, 40-80….and then 28-50. Central Oregon can be a real biotch.
I live south of Atlanta it was 84 a few days ago it was 19 last night.friday. today the wind is blowing and get ready for tonight.You can take your flip-flops off.
Wow.
Yes it is … .. it usually freezes the first time in mid December , her in TEXAS …this year , November 1st
Duvet means "down" as in goose or duck or other fowl unercoat of feathers. Also, "peach fuzz". Goose down in a large pillowy bed cover, then needs a huge ’pillowcase, we call it a duvet cover. I guess you shortened it in the us to simply duvet.
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I am in California zone 8b. Our weather is very similar to yours. I’ve been wanting to plant stuff but same problem, warm during the day and freezing at night. Main difference is that we have had consistent lows in the low 30s so I’ve refrained from planting. These beautiful mid 70’s days make it difficult not to plant and the trees all woke up already. We had a freeze a couple weeks ago down to 23 degrees and all my fruit trees that were in full bloom surprisingly came through like champs.
Man, glad they came through. I always worry. Will I get fruit this year?
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I have the same worry, and was surprised that I didn’t just see a bunch of flowers on the ground the next day.
I had to do the sheet thing last year but then the wind swooped in and lifted several but that also helped to keep the temps from dropping I guess.
Oh yes, hello from Maine. Hands down, if the Temps are going to drop overnight you want a good breeze to prevent the freeze.
Of course I didn't get notification about this video! Yep it's cold. I converted the preaches, but didn't know about moving the mulch.
Interesting, I set up my orchard with asparagus, berries, and fruit trees interspersed with just enough spacing, perhaps a bit of comp, but it is 50x60ft of almost all food/herbs/flowers.
I think we're getting some high winds so I'm not covering anything. Great post.
Same being done up North in WI. Hot cold with chemtrails. Praying to my trees not to wake up yet...going into 50s this week and we will lose our protective snow cover AGAIN. Then down to freezing again. Shouldn't be this warm until end of May.
I'm worried about my Plum, peach and citrus. All have little fruits.