forecast low for Saturday night/Sunday morning is 34 degrees

[Golden Community Garden]

Hi everyone, If you're still growing in the garden, some weather news for you below, thanks to David Braden. 

 

The forecast low for Saturday night/ Sunday morning is 34 degrees.  If that remains unchanged, we will likely lose some tomatoes and squashes in frost prone areas that night. If you have some favorite tender plants that still have fruit ripening, (cool season crops are fine) and some old sheets or blankets (plastic does not work), you can possibly save them. Go out Friday afternoon and put the sheet or blanket over the top.  Leave the plant covered until it warms up on Sunday or Monday. 

For tomatoes that you don't want to cover, you can pick any fruit that has started to turn . . . the first hint of yellow . . . and put them on your kitchen counter (or wrapped in newspaper in a paper bag) and they will ripen over the next several weeks.  They are not as good as vine ripened but much better than grown for shipping. 

Pumpkins and winter squashes will probably be OK even if the vines are killed.  It will not be cold enough to freeze the fruits . . . so you can pick them later.  When you harvest pumpkins and squashes store them in a cool dry place.  The sugar will start to turn to starch as soon as you pick them . . . but they will still taste good into January.

Please get your plot cleaned up and winterized by the end of this month, and here are some other garden tips from CSU Extension: http://www.frontrangeliving.com/garden/wintergarden.htm

And we'll have a clean up work day later this month.

happy Friday!