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  • From: "Coylie Ries" <sassyniowa AT iowatelecom.net>
  • To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] hard freeze
  • Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2007 12:03:39 -0600

Several years ago, we had hard freezes here in May! Way to late for that sort of thing. One of the grocery store greenhouse ladies spent the night in the hoop house covered only in shade cloth and continually sprayed the hoop house and plants with water all through the night to build up a layer of ice. It worked wonders through a very, very hard freeze when many other parking lot hoop houses lost everything. The point she made also was not to stop spraying until the sun comes up. Not before other wise the plants could still freeze.
Hope this helps,
Sassy
----- Original Message ----- From: "TxBeeFarmer" <TxBeeFarmer AT HotPop.com>
To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2007 8:42 PM
Subject: Re: [Market-farming] hard freeze


An old trick in orchards is to turn the sprinklers on. If the plants are
covered with ice, they will have little or no damage. But for flowers, the
ice may be too heavy and cause damage by the weight. Perhaps you could turn
the water off before the weight is too great. Smudge pots or smoky fires
have been used with some success too, but this is in orchards. I'd guess
you don't have too much to loose by trying.

TxBeeFarmer
West Texas Zone 7b

On 4/3/2007 9:23:56 PM, sue roseman (swissy AT socket.net) wrote:
Help! I am about to lose all my early flower crops to a hard freeze. Does
any one have any suggestions? It is suppose to get to about 20 one night
and 24 for 2 others. I am sooooooo depressed. Hundreds of lillies up alot
from that really warm spell.
Sue from north MO
Zone 5

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