Cold Snap

After a lot of rain in the last two weeks, all is sunny but not warm here. We're having the early April cold snap that comes after the garden has been planted. Usually around Easter. If you wait to put in your garden until mid April, the plants will wilt in the summer heat (which will probably be here by May 1st). So what you see in the pictures is our way of protecting the plants from the freeze warning that was issued for last night and tonight. The tomato plants' cages were wrapped in plastic trash bags. Yes, I know it is not ecologically correct and we've enlarged our footprint, but it is what works best. I'll try to find a second use for the plastic. Under the buckets are the squash and zucchini plants. It's a good thing I save those detergent buckets. They are so multipurpose! Everything else is blanketed in pine straw, except for the onions. I've never grown onions before, but they seem pretty hardy.

Now I've got to go out and uncover the plants with plastic and buckets before the sun makes it too warm for them. We will cover them again this evening. I'm going to leave the pine straw alone. All this just makes the vegetables taste so much better than store bought when we finally harvest.