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Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: Plantation, Florida zone 10
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Join Date: Dec 2016
Location: USA
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Here's a map from US National Weather Service Tampa Bay Florida's Facebook page, in case it helps anyone:
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The forecast for my zip code keeps changing between 35 and 34, so I'm hoping the 27 degree prediction will miss me, too. I'm gonna leave everything covered/inside for Thursday night as well. It's saying 37 for me Thursday night but I don't trust it. It said 41 for tonight and now this, so... I'll play it safe. |
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Join Date: Jul 2014
Location: Central Florida
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Thanks for your generous comments, but I'm only a hack gardener compared to you and many others here on Tomatoville. Yesterday, I was looking at your list of seeds you had available this year and it boggled my mind. I thought, How on earth does she do it. I'm not very equipped for covering plants, although I may try to cover somethings. I have quite a bit of small bean plants exposed and lots of tomato plants. The low here is only reported to be 40 tomorrow morning. However, some of my plants could still be exposed to damaging frost. The wind is predicted to be 7 mph. I don't know if that is high enough to provide any protection. Here it is a month after the last normal frost date. It isn't supposed to be doing this. March seems to be making up for a warmer than normal February. The low of 40 here is supposed to occur at 8 am. I'm curious if it would be of value to spray exposed plants with the hose an hour or two before the predicted low. ![]() Last edited by Zone9b; March 15, 2017 at 09:37 PM. |
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#2629 |
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Join Date: Nov 2015
Location: Jax, FL - 9A
Posts: 172
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Set mine out this past weekend and looky what we got coming. I put empty buckets over them. We'll see.
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#2630 |
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Join Date: Nov 2015
Location: Jax, FL - 9A
Posts: 172
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Mine made it through with no trouble. Hope that was the result for all of you as well.
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#2631 |
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Join Date: Oct 2011
Location: Homestead,Everglades City Fl.
Posts: 2,497
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We got down to60. 65 at most.I am close to end of state. 10 b.
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#2632 |
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Join Date: Jul 2014
Location: Central Florida
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Local TV said 37 in Orlando. I saw 40 here at home but it could have dropped a bit from there. No frost and not a record. The record low of 30 was set in 1932 and the record high of 94 was set in 1921.
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#2633 |
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Join Date: Apr 2014
Location: Indialantic, Florida
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Our low was about 48; it usually occurs around 6-7AM. It's the winds that are the problem here.
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#2634 |
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Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: Plantation, Florida zone 10
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We didn't even think about it here. Our low was 54. So glad everyone got through it OK.
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#2635 |
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Join Date: Nov 2012
Location: NJ, zone 7
Posts: 3,162
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That is a good news!
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#2636 |
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Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Southern CA
Posts: 1,714
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I know I have a tomato problem when my first thought when I saw the news about Florida's pending frost was: Oh no! I hope all their tomatoes will be alright!
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#2637 |
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Join Date: Apr 2014
Location: Indialantic, Florida
Posts: 2,000
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and a few days without having to run the A/C always helps.
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#2638 |
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Join Date: Apr 2016
Location: North Florida
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Our low was upper 20's for a couple of nights. Highs in the 60's and I had some tomato and pepper seedlings on a shelf in the cattle panel greenhouse (12' X 40') along with plants already in dutch buckets. I was interested in how well the seedlings would do with these temps. The end walls of the greenhouse are open but the plants are covered with shade cloth and plastic. I was really surprised, the seedlings did just fine and no plants were lost. The seedlings will probably go in the buckets next week or so.
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#2639 |
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Join Date: Oct 2015
Location: OH 6a
Posts: 592
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Sorry if I'm posting too many of these, but it keeps coming.
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#2640 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Apr 2014
Location: Indialantic, Florida
Posts: 2,000
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Never too many pictures. Keep them coming? Pictures of plants too. It really makes me want to grow cherry tomatoes since most of what I grow I give away. What are the orange ones? What are the pointy red ones in the bowl? What are the red ones with the green shoulders?
I recognize the Pink Bumblebee. I am definitely going to grow PB next fall. I'm growing Maglia Rosa now; this is the first time the plant has done well for me too. Max - Are you in the Miami area? Last edited by Barb_FL; March 19, 2017 at 04:26 PM. |
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