{"id":5405,"date":"2016-06-08T16:01:37","date_gmt":"2016-06-08T20:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=5405"},"modified":"2016-06-08T16:01:37","modified_gmt":"2016-06-08T20:01:37","slug":"we-had-a-hard-frost-but-no-damage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2016\/06\/08\/we-had-a-hard-frost-but-no-damage\/","title":{"rendered":"We had a hard frost but no damage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At 5 a.m. I went outside and saw heavy frost on the roof and on the windshield of our Subaru. And this was on top of the ridge; our garden is down below where frost will settle. But our tomatoes were fine because Will and I worked all day yesterday covering our them. A dear friend had given me some larger plastic nursery pots and we had a few others so we used 50 to cover tomatoes. Then I had a bright idea. Gina, a friend of ours, has a greenhouse in Cook and I remembered seeing piles of used pots along their fence.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2016\/06\/08\/we-had-a-hard-frost-but-no-damage\/covered_toms_0290\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5406\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Covered_toms_0290.jpg\" alt=\"Covered_toms_0290\" width=\"446\" height=\"360\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5406\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Covered_toms_0290.jpg 446w, https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Covered_toms_0290-300x242.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 446px) 100vw, 446px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I drove in and sure enough, Gina quickly helped me load 50 more pots into the car. (I told her I&#8217;d return them today.) When I got home, Will and I finished covering the plants then set a cap of hay on each one as they do have holes and we didn&#8217;t want frost seeping inside. We had a little corn and beans up, so I quickly hoed a little dirt over each plant.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2016\/06\/08\/we-had-a-hard-frost-but-no-damage\/happy_tom_0291\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5407\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Happy_tom_0291.jpg\" alt=\"Happy_tom_0291\" width=\"446\" height=\"620\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5407\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Happy_tom_0291.jpg 446w, https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Happy_tom_0291-302x420.jpg 302w, https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Happy_tom_0291-216x300.jpg 216w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 446px) 100vw, 446px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This morning I walked down and uncovered a few tomatoes. They are in perfect shape! Will is uncovering the rest right now as our temperatures are swiftly climbing and no cold nights in the forecast. Whew! &#8212; Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At 5 a.m. I went outside and saw heavy frost on the roof and on the windshield of our Subaru. And this was on top of the ridge; our garden is down below where frost will settle. But our tomatoes were fine because Will and I worked all day yesterday covering our them. A dear [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,13,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5405"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}