Yesterday, the Weather Service forecast a hard freeze for Cambridge. The weather people always try to err on the worst case side of things, but you never know, so Judy and I covered everything we could with plastic or ag fabric. We managed to cover the tomatoes, the peppers, the squash, the sweet potatoes, the basil and remaining cukes, and some of the beans.
While hardly an architectural masterpiece, form follows function, and Louis Sullivan would have to give us a positive nod as we lost nothing to the frost. Actually, I don’t think the garden got cold enough to incur any damage even though the lawn had noticeable frost this morning.
We are supposed to have one more night of really cold temperatures then it will warm up again. That’s very typical of September in Wisconsin. If you can get past the first early frost, you often have another month of growing before the really hard freezes set in.