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  • From: "Jill Taylor Bussiere" <jdt AT itol.com>
  • To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Freezing temperatures/Cold frames
  • Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 07:53:48 -0600


I have my almost 2000 onion seedlings in the cold frame outside - it is made
with a cedar base, and old windows hinged on top.

They have been in there over a week, as the temperatures have been low at
25, and high in the 50's.

Except for last night. This morning when I checked the thermometer, I read
15 degrees (F). I just checked the onions. The soil in their wooden flats
is frozen, and the onions are looking like themselves mostly.

Do I leave them out there to hopefully warm up, now that the suns rays are
hitting the cold frame? Not very many sun rays are hitting the cold frame
as it is cloudy and snowing finely. The temperatures are supposed to hit
single digits outside tonight, so I am assuming I need to bring them in at
some point before then, don't I?

Have I just killed all my onions by leaving them out there? Will they make
it?

Jill





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