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The cold weather sets in (and when daytime temperatures are aboveįreezing), deep water your roses. Harvested greens on Thanksgiving Day and thinned the thriving carrots that Greens not only survived the negative 9 degree nights but were thriving on November 15! Community gardener, Cindy, said that she Gardeners were unsure that the crops would survive. Even with the covers, lights and south facing location, the community Photos taken the day after the nighttime temperature reached -9įorecast predicted snow and below zero temperatures that would last for severalĭays. Purchased and Christmas lights were installed to protect the young crops. Very well with limited protection in October, the community gardeners prepared By October, nighttime protection in the form of clear plastic was Hoops were installed and used for shade cloth while greens and rootĬrops germinated in the heat of September. Location along the south wall of the church (to the right of the door in the photo above). The new wooden bed was installed in its winter The gardeners have put the new materials to good use. Then constructing a cold frame around the bed.

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They also learned how to build a hot bed by burying fresh manure under the garden soil and Participants built a woodenįor hoops, built cold frames with straw bales and concrete blocks, and bentĬonduit for covers for different sized beds. Gardening class at the Miracle Community Garden. September 6, 2014, CSU Extension-Pueblo County held a Season Extending Hoops on a bed that is currently home to a thriving winter crop.

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He delivered over 500 pounds of food on behalf of the garden in 2014.Ībove: straw bale cold frame built around a 4' x 4' hot bed.īelow: Season Extending structures participants install Local Care and Share Food Bank, with community gardener, Deric, reporting that The gardeners donate extra produce to the

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The full effect of the November freeze onĭeciduous trees, however, may not be exhibited until this spring and beyond.Ĭommunity and church members of the Milagro Christian Church, the MiracleĬommunity Garden was developed into a productive communityĮxpanded and currently contains 24 beds ranging from 4’ x 4’ to 4’ x 12”. With the leaves still present, heavy wet snow may cause excessive snow loadingĪnd lead to broken branches. This leaf retention won’t hurt the tree, but Many of our maples and ornamental pears exhibited marcescenceīecause of the November freeze. įor some tree species like oaks, this is a normal, genetically built-in Retention of leaves by deciduous plants in the fall is called 'marcescence' leaves die and wither, but do not fall from the tree. With formation of the abscission layer that allows the leaves to fall from the trees. Trees never dropped their leaves because the cold-snap interfered May indicate severe cold injury and death of the growing point.ĭeciduous trees were affected by the cold-snap as well.

The north sides of trees may exhibit less damage because that side of the tree likely acclimated to a greater extent than the sides more exposed to full sun. Austrian, Bosnian, and Norway pines and other non-nativeĮvergreen trees are exhibiting brown tip foliage, especially on the south, eastĪnd west sides of the tree. We are already seeing the effects of this cold snap on ourĮvergreen trees and shrubs. More brutal cold nights recently (though that will change soon). Longer to maintain our target 32+ degree temperatures, but we haven’t had any This keeps the cold frame temperature in theģ0s and prevents the ground from freezing.ĭo realize that when nighttime temps drop lower, we have to keep the lights on Then we laid the space blankets on top of the wickets inside each box,Ĭlip the space blankets to the wickets with clothespins (talk about high tech),Īnd we have the lights on timers set to go on for one hour each night. Had two strands, as reported previously). Space blankets and got more strands of incandescent Christmas lights fromīox and we put one strand of Christmas lights in the beet box and one in the

Having made it through the brutalĬold spell with our rigid insulation and our only 4 strands of incandescentĬhristmas lights in the lettuce/spinach boxes (2 strands/box), I ordered some Than finding CSU Garden Notes #722 written by Carol O’Meara and David Sustainable and storable way than rigid construction insulation – space We've improved the R-value of the cold frames in a more

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