Will I ever get to plant?!

9 years ago

Another 4-9" of snow on Sunday is headed my way. My poor tomatoes keep begging me to be planted outside

"Please Zach! PLEASE!" I can hear them say.

"Just get through this week, I promise" I reply.

"But it's been 85 degrees all week, it will be FINE! C'mon!" They beg me.

"You think so?" I ask them. "I guess your right, it hasn't gotten below 55 degrees in almost a week, lets go check the weather" I assure them.

But Every week, another freeze, another snow, another potting up and I'm running out of larger pots and potting mix. This is getting very, very, very, annoying.

Plus having to go out and build tents to cover the cool season crops that are already outside over, and over, and over and over.

This post was edited by ZachS on Fri, May 9, 14 at 17:19

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booberry85
9 years ago
Oh God! I shuttered when I read snow. I feel your pain. I live in what they call the "snow belt" in upstate NY. I've just been able to move the tomato & pepper plants outside this week. Wednesday morning we had a frost (but no snow thank goodness!). Just tell those babies they are much happier inside than outside right now. Nothing else you can do.
sharonrossy
9 years ago
Join the club. It's warm today in Montreal but we can't even think about hardening off for at least another 10 days and planting out by end of the month. My tomato plants are getting very tall and need to get out. But I started too early! Who knew?
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ZachS. z5 Platteville, Colorado
Original Author
9 years ago
Booberry, I shuddered when I saw the forecast, too. Like I said, it's been consistently about 75-85F with lows in the mid-upper 50's for the past week. Aside from a cold front last week that kept our highs in the low 50's for about 3 days, the weather seemed to be pretty much on track for a Mothers Day plant out. Looks like I'll be shooting for the 18th, but at this rate I'm not putting a whole lot of faith in that either, I just know I'll look at the forecast next Friday and see another snow or hard freeze. I bet frost comes in mid September, too, so, I can probably write off this years crop. Pretty damn frustrating considering all the work one puts into it.

I haven't seen a snow this late in many years, and when it does, it doesn't accumulate. To me, this seems pretty strange. Usually I can count on my LFD to be between late April and mid May and plant out about now. I may have to cover once or twice, but rarely due to a true frost or hard freeze. I guess this is our payback for having 40's and 50's when everyone east of us was living in the polar vortex.
sharonrossy
9 years ago
Have you started to harden off yet? Last year we had a week of really warm weather in May, and I jumped the gun with hardening off. So I'm not going to get fooled by Mother Nature this year. She can be cruel!
ZachS. z5 Platteville, Colorado
Original Author
9 years ago
Yup, they are done and ready to be planted. I don't worry too much if they have to stay inside for a day or two (happens all the time when I'm gone for a couple days every month to go play Army with the National Guard). It's really just me, who hates snow even in the throws of winter, getting fed up and tired of the s****ty weather, and also not wanting to go buy larger pots since I ran out today.