It’s chilly, only supposed to get to 57 degrees F. today. Much colder than it’s been for awhile.
It was officially Spring on Saturday (March 20th). We had our officialy recognized “Last Freeze Date” on March 15th. Yesterday afternoon it became chilly, as a front was coming through … which is introducing this chilly air. The house became “Too Cold” to live in overnight, so I finally broke down this morning, cleaned the overly filled up ashes out of the fireplace from the last cold spell, and started a fire, mid-morning. Oh, the cheery flames takes the edge off the late fingers of winter penetrating into our wonderful Southern Spring.
Tonight, temperatures are supposed to be around freezing and down to the upper 20’s in some areas around here. My poor Hostas, they are unfurling their leaves, so I’ll need to cover them. I’m not sure about other plants, onions and lettuce … lettuce may need covered, and the cauliflower I planted this past weekend.
We bought tomato plants on Saturday at the feed store. They’ll stay in the garage until a safer day to plant.
I’ll probably trim my chives, lest I lose the nice growth they’ve made the past couple of weeks. Good for cooking already. The Thyme will be fine. But what about the flowering Yoshino Cherry Trees … and all the other trees that have leafed out already? We shall see what happens, I can only protect a few things.
I hope this cold won’t get that cold too fast over night, that’ll give everything a better chance of surviving if it’s mostly only near dawn, but whatever happens is what will happen.