It is temp is 41 right now, feels like a heat wave after the last few days.

[texanwitch]

Only tossed one small log in the old wood stove and that is almost to much.

Tomorrow will be in the 60's, that will feel really hot.

I don't know how cold it must have been but all the plants I covered so carefully died again.

Hope the roots are still alive.

[kentauros]

1. I only had two plants to cover.

I guess I can uncover them now. I used a mostly white sheet, so they still got plenty of light, but you really have to cover them pretty thoroughly. My father will also put a small light bulb underneath to generate some heat and that works great! I think he uses old-style Christmas lights, so he can then string a bunch of small bulbs around to the different plants.

[texanwitch]

2. I didn't think of that.

I have some old lights like that, plenty of bulbs.

I will remember that next year.

Nothing left to save now.

I took a walk around neighborhood, a lot of plants are dead.

[kentauros]

3. I guess it doesn't matter for you that the forecast for Wednesday

has it getting down to 29 with a little rain, and 31 the following night.

Did you lose all of your outdoor plants? :(

[texanwitch]

4. I have some in pots that I carried in the house.

All the outdoor plants are dead.

Between last year and this year it doesn't pay to have tender outdoor plants.

I replaced my dead norfork pines with cedar trees, the cold doesn't hurt them.

I will still cover the roots and hope for the best.