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    44 degrees with a light rain moving through. Wind calm so far.
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    Scratch that, 21 mph gusts now wrecking my coverings. Hold off if you can.
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    I like your setup Carvers! You should be able to anchor that down nicely.
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    Annnnnd the wind just picked up and blew off a bunch of stuff. FML
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    Alright, let's see y'all's frost covering pics. I'm dreading having to take all of this down and then put it up again tomorrow evening but that is 2020 for ya. Hope it works. I did hold off on planting the rest of the root bound seedlings. So probably 30% of my maters are in the garage tonight.
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    Well it's not too windy here and the rain has stopped. Guess I'll start trying to cover plants up.
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    Trying to cover the garden tomorrow evening during downpours and gusty winds will be fun. GFS showing upper 20s for here Saturday morning. What a mess.
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    I've got around 60 plants that are badly root bound in cups. I'm going to have to risk it and get these in the ground this weekend, otherwise they'll be ruined anyway. Plant seeds in February they said. You'll get jump start on the season they said. Never again.
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    Man, 2020 is relentless.
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    The 12z NAM had me at 35 degrees with calm winds tomorrow morning. Hoping that was a blip and we don't get a surprise frost. NWS isn't sounding the alarm so that's good. @Carvers Gap I'm jealous that you found wheat straw. I'm all out of wood chips and desperately need something to mulch with. I'm going to call around tomorrow and see if I can bird dog a few bales.
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    Even here in the central valley, I will not be putting warm season stuff in the ground before May ever again. This has been too much stress and hassle. Lesson learned.
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    I'm thankful to have survived the two frost threats so far. Hopefully we done with it for the season.
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    The latest RAP is bottoming out at 36 degrees for my area, that's above MRX, I'm encouraged.
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    I gambled and put out damn near 70 hemp plants and 40 maters figuring we were over the frost. Tonight is my fresh hell. I've basically buried the hemp in what I could find in packaged wheat straw at Lowes. Maters, peppers, basil, cucumbers, etc covered in a redneck array of tarps, buckets, coffee cans, whatever for the time being. I'm reasonably confident I can survive the night, but the GFS was advertising inches of snow next week lol, so who knows.
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    What are y'all's thoughts on frost at this point based on modeling? Asking for a friend.
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    Knox County schools closed today for the 3rd day in a row for flooding. I imagine they'll be closed tomorrow as well.
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    Glad to hear your cover crop is off to a good start Carvers! One nice thing about this friggin heat, I may still be harvesting maters in November. I'm also going to try to get several auto flowering hemp plants done before frost. Seedlings just coming up now.
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    I can't compete in the extract market where people are growing 100's of acres. My niche will be trimmed smokable flower to be sold from smaller shops. It remains to be seen how profitable it will be but I'm going to find out. Here's some pics of the warm season cover crop which is mostly sunn hemp taken last week.
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    That cover crop mix looks pretty good. Hairy Vetch is very good for the soil but can be sort of hard to get rid of. If you plan on tilling the area up next spring then probably not an issue. My main mix for the cool season this year will be turnips and winter rye. I'll dress crimson clover around berry bushes and fruit trees. Right now I've got sunn hemp that is 10 to 12 feet high and growing. It is one hell of a biomass producer and will make a large amount of compost. I put 120 mater plants in the ground this year, staggered over several weeks. Yield has been overwhelming. I've canned until I'm sick of it and am giving them away now. Next year I'll be scaling those back in a big way. I've decided to go all in on CBD hemp. Got my license and several clones already growing indoors. Planning several hundred plants outdoors next season growing in compost made from cover crop.
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    The thunder and lightning show has been impressive here tonight, I was not expecting that. Big winter storm in 10 days, book it, done.
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    Almost time to get mater seeds planted in the green house! I've used florescent tubes in the past but I'm gonna try to find some cheap LED lights on Amazon this go around. Planning to go probably 2/3rds Cherokee Purples and 1/3rd Pink Brandywines. The Purples seem to be more disease resistant at my location. Last year the Brandywines got that yellow blight and never did really recover properly. I'll supplement the seedlings with some other purchased plants from Lowes but I'm aiming for 100 or more in the ground this year.
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    Glad to hear you had a good year Carvers! I too have been thinking about and trying to prepare for spring. This past year was a "rebuilding year" so to speak for me and I did not grow nearly as much quantity of annual crops as in the past. By that I mean I focused on getting new beds up and running, soil building, and planting perennials such as berry bushes and fruit trees. I've ramped up composting and have winter rye cover crop in most of the beds. The plan is to go all in on tomatoes next year and do some serious canning. When I have some time, I'll share my experience with Hugelkultur that turned out to be very successful and should provide benefits for years to come. Also, I had success growing Sunn Hemp as a warm season cover crop in some beds. That turned into a forest of 10 to 15 foot high plants with beautiful yellow flowers. That was all chopped down, thrown in the Hugelkultur beds, covered in leaf compost and chicken dirt before being seeded with winter rye in October. I'll be growing a lot more Sunn Hemp next year all over the property and using that biomass to improve beds and composting. Looking forward to talking shop with you about seeds since you're the seed friggin master! I'm planning to rig up several LED light bars in my little portable green house for tomato seedlings come February. Lots to do and not much time to do it, but it feels good when everything falls into place!
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