dendrite

Wow. Got down to 51.5° here. Up to 64°.

Legit felt like early June this morning. Unreal.

Maybe your peppers will make it to next spring.

Still crickets in the yard.

MAV has 80° at BDL now tomorrow. That would be the latest 80° on record. LFG

It’s the max temp for the day ending at that time.

Only 60s and low 70s tomorrow. Chilly.

MOSGW

Honestly no thoughts. I have looked at nothing. It’s always a wild card here anyway with the amount of ways it can snow and retain pack. I don’t like looking out beyond 2-3 weeks anyway…not my thang.

In a couple months the seed starting gear will be out in the box stores.

Cold fail up here. Got down to 25.9°, but 29° now with some clouds. CON did sneak in a 22° though. It’s all up from here this week.

Are they under trees? That could help. But you may want to give it another couple of hours to see if they show the effects more. Peppers really don't like sub 40F.

I've been researching them for growing in pots. There's a few newer ones that have made it over from Russia that are similar in cold hardiness. I think the key for getting fruit is finding the one that ripens the earliest. Even if the fruit don't ripen in time it'd probably make a nice ornamental. How low did you get in Feb '23?

https://onegreenworld.com/product/salavatski-pomegranate/ I'd definitely be experimenting with that if I had your climo.

Every pic I’ve seen of your lawn lately looks mostly green.

Freeze this

If it was December and raining you would be calling it ZR.

Congrats on the freeze 26.2° here

Sunny and crisp since midday here.

Maybe no measurable for Ray this year or will he add up his 6hr traces on the snowboard?

And oh yeah…WCVB just had a segment on pawpaws. https://www.wcvb.com/article/the-paw-paw-is-americas-forgotten-fruit/62777683

I’m not a huge fan and I have too many other things growing or that I want to grow. They don’t really have a prayer here in colder years. Like that -18° with strong winds in Feb 23 would wipe even the hardiest one out. One thing I thought about doing is growing an RdB fig in the field with horizontal branches near the ground. Then prune it back in the fall and cover those branches over the winter with dirt or mulch. I could get a strong rootzone going that way and it would explode with growth every spring. Zone pushing can be a lot of extra work. If there was one thing I’d push and try to protect it’d be cold hardy pomegranates. I’d probably be tempted with lows in the -0s, but our frequent -10s scare me off.

lol at these Oct/Nov temps at BDL the last 3 years. Throw the 84° for today on 11/1 too.

Yeah I see the tweet now.