Hello! We're having some truly wacky weather here in Ohio and I know a lot of
you are too. We've had, this will be the third night where we dip down into the
20s, we've had, we woke up yesterday morning to a heavy frost and we had a
snow storm the other day. And I just wanted to show you how my cool season
veggies are doing in the garden because I know a lot of people are really
concerned about having veggies out and then having this cold snap. But I want to
show you how resilient some of these crops really are. So let's take a look! So
as you can see in here I've got some things covered. All of those white covers
that you see are over things like broccoli, cabbage and cauliflower and I
do that mainly for insect protection-- to protect against primarily cabbage moths.
The cauliflower I do find is more sensitive to cold than the cabbage and
broccoli so I use this for frost protection on the cauliflower as well.
You can see here I've got some broccoli seedlings in this container and they are
perfectly happy. They've sailed through this freezing cold weather and snow. I do,
as I mentioned, I've got my cauliflower covered up in this container. Over here
are some cabbage seedlings that were unprotected and they get a little nipped
by the frost but they'll come out of that as soon as the weather warms up and
they'll be just fine. Over here are some very young pansy
plants and these are extremely cold hardy so they're, you can't even tell
that they've been through anything. Here are some of my peas and again you can't
even tell that they were exposed to the cold they're perfectly happy. Spinach over
here is fine. I've got a lot of daikon radish coming up here and they were
unaffected. Some little bitty baby lettuce seedlings just coming up and
they're perfectly happy. Over here we've got assorted mixed greens- arugula, mache,
that's actually dill seedlings coming up, kind of a mixed lettuce and spinach
blend and chard blend over here. My rhubarb's happy. These are calendula
seedlings and they're doing just fine. Over here this whole bed was unprotected
during this cold snap. So you can see chard, lettuce, cilantro, kale, back there
spinach. I think that's everything and then I've got seedlings of broccoli and
cauliflower and cabbage tucked in here as well and everything seems to be doing
just fine. And then over here is a full bed of peas and again they just sail
through that cold snap. Now let's take a peek under here-- we've got broccoli
seedlings, see how they're doing...ooop... just fine under there. Over here we've
got more radish coming up and other than the flea beetle damage they're fine.
Onions will take the cold like a champ- so my onion seedlings are showing no
signs of damage. So under here I've got cauliflower. My cauliflower
seedlings are fine, but you will see one thing that took a hit. This is a
nasturtium plant and they were the most sensitive thing I had out here planted
and even under the covers they've been hurt by the frost they may not come back.
Here we've got some little beet seedlings just emerging and they're
doing just fine. And over here we've got some carrot
seedlings and again they seem to be completely unfazed by this cold snap
that we've had. And my cover crop back here didn't take a hit at all. So don't
fear if you guys have cool season stuff out in your garden right now and
you got us cold snap like we did here most of your veggies are going to be
just fine. If you want to take a little extra precaution the lightweight row
covers are always a good way to go, but these plants are tough they can make
it through more than we give them credit for. Thanks for watching and I'll see you
next time!