Frigid Night To Finish Off Anything Left Growing In The Garden

Some of the warmer corners of Vermont and surrounding Northeastern states have barely had a frost and freeze this month so far.

 

Cosmos in my St. Albans,  Vermont garden started off slow
and finally reached their peak by today, October 28.
But they'll be dead by morning as temperatures drop
to near 20 degrees  

In Vermont's Champlain Valley, temperatures have gotten to near 32 degrees a couple nights in the past week, but it hasn't been super cold. Some plants in gardens are hanging in there.

Or at least were. Monday night will be the moment when virtually everything in the gardens will get wiped out.

It will be damn cold. Not record cold, but cold enough. Unless you're right along the shore of Lake Champlain, it will get into the mid 20s.

Most places will be in the low 20s by Tuesday morning. Many valley locations in Vermont and northern New York will be well down into the teens.

It's really not worth covering things up. They pretty much won't make it anyway. (Root crops in the gardens will be fine, though)

Kiss those hardy flowers goodbye, folks.

It's been a long growing season, so I can't complain. And a cold night like tonight's forecast chill is coming about on schedule for northern New England.

Still, a part of me can't wait for things to start greening up in the spring again.

It's going to be a long, long wait.