Well we are in for another frost advisory unti 8 a.m. tomorrow morning so I just went outside and put flower pots over everything that was just planted. what a lousy week end. First wind and rain and now frost. Maybe next week-end we will have warmer weather.

Penny
Niagara Falls, NY
USDA zone 6a/6b
Heat zone 4
Sunset zone 39

We have a frost warning also. Most all the plants I've bought so far, are in the garden wagon. I pull it out in the day, and put it in the garage at night. The rest are in my screen porch. I have smarted up a little . I will plant my cannas this week, but will wait till next week for the rest, even though we will have a frost warning or 2 after that.

birdlegs
zone 5
S.E. Lower MI.

Most of my stuff is either in the garage or on the porch covered up but I did plant out my two greggiis, w penstemons and my silene virginica so I just put flower pots over them.

Penny
Niagara Falls, NY
USDA zone 6a/6b
Heat zone 4
Sunset zone 39

Sorry for you guys.....ugh!!

Pam NJ 6B

Hard to believe frost in Zone 6 & haven't heard of us getting that cold. I better recheck though. All my stuff is out. Hopefully all will be ok!!

Joni
Elwood, IL
Zone 5

Patchy frost and 38 degrees for here as well. I covered up a couple things and brought almost everything else back in. I actually saw 3 hummers here at one time today which is a record here this early. Usually very little sightings this time of year. I stuck out two more feeders they will hopefully use. One flew up to the window and tried to get to the plants it could see inside.

Lisa

Lake Country
Southern Wisconsin
USDA Zone 5b
heat zone 4/5
sunset zone 41
http://thehummingbirdgarden.blogspot.com/

Sorry hear its going to get that cold there in may. Here it is supposed to get down to 42 on monday night which is as cold as I know of upper 40s tonight. But I still brought everything in. As far as hummers go I havent seen one here for several days but it could explode any day I guess, I hope.

Steve
Martinsville, In
Heat zone 6
Sunset zone 35

Here in Peoria,ill we are talking down to 43 degrees. I got all my salvias out already for except two potted ones are not ready to go on the deck.Penny I guest it is the best to go plain old potting soil not the three months fertilizer.Is is all right to use better earth compost to mix into the plain potting soil for the summer.




eldon voorhees

eldon
Yes you can use your compost in with the potting soil.

Penny
Niagara Falls, NY
USDA zone 6a/6b
Heat zone 4
Sunset zone 39

well at 5:45 this morning it is 33 degrees according to weatherbug and TWC but 28 degrees acording to Weather Underground. My back yard got frosted pretty good but most of it seems to be in the middle of the yard where it is more open and unprotected and all grass. The beds seem to be spared. Very little frost in the front from what I can tell so far. I am glad I covered up plants. Will have to do the same thing again tonight as we have another frost advisory for tonight too. I took feeders down and replaced the nectar. One feeders that only had 2 or 3 ounces of nectar was slightly slushy.

Penny
Niagara Falls, NY
USDA zone 6a/6b
Heat zone 4
Sunset zone 39

Penny,

Those Nectar "Slushy's" would come in handy...say in ....August!

Pam NJ 6B

Penny,

Glad to hear that your plants did O.K. We had a lot of wind yesterday and and all the nectar sloshed out of the feeders.

Suchie

Same thing happened to my feeders on Saturday. Two feeders actually blew down with the wind gusts of 30-35 mph.

Penny
Niagara Falls, NY
USDA zone 6a/6b
Heat zone 4
Sunset zone 39

Ouch! Sorry you hummer lovers up north are having the cold weather.

Linda
ne AL
zone 7b

Well they predicted 48 here last night only got down to 53. Tonight they are still saying a low 42 then after that clear sailing for awhile.

There is a rabbit roaming the neighborhood that seems far too comfortable in my yard, this morning I caught him munching on my shumannii I will be having rabbit for supper one of these evenings.

Steve
Martinsville, In
Heat zone 6
Sunset zone 35

Rabbit stew might be on our menu also

No frost here last night, but it will be colder tonight.

birdlegs
zone 5
S.E. Lower MI.

I left the pots out by the plants so I don't have to go back to the garage to get them this evening. The stuff that I left in the mini greenhouse on the porch with a blacket over the top did fine. It was all my smallest seedlings that haven't been potted up into 3 inch pots yet mostly Salvia subrotunda and Cuphea schumanni.

Penny
Niagara Falls, NY
USDA zone 6a/6b
Heat zone 4
Sunset zone 39

Rabbits have never been destructive in my yard. I can't remember them ever causing damage. Upon consideration I think I know why. The lawn hasn't received any herbicide treatments or fertilizer and has white clover running all through it. There is enough clover out there to feed an army of rabbits and they seem to stick to that exclusively.

They're predicting 38 tonight, and patchy frost in the Pittsburgh area. I don't think it got nearly that cold last night. Since you're farther north, that cold wave must have hit you sooner, Penny.

By midweek, it looks like there will be a warmup around here, with temperatures staying in the 70's during the day, and above 50 at night, thank goodness. I'm going to have to haul a bunch of things in tonight--Brrr!