….And The Results of the Freeze. Plus a Word on Thermometers!

So the Tomatoes fared very well last night. Unfortunately I did not, I’ve been running fever for two days now. The foretasted low outside was 28 degrees F. As you can tell by the picture, the recorded low inside the low tunnel (which was inside the high tunnel) was 35F. I kept a few tomato plants uncovered in the high tunnel just to see what would happen. The result was a mostly dead tomato plants. Some of the inner leaves made it; none of them outright died.

We have a few more cold days coming up. 27 is the lowest forecast, I think on Friday, but these things change so fast.

Anyway, I’d appreciate it if you all pitied me greatly for having to feed chickens and cover and uncover 150 tomato plants while running fever. It really sucked. I have a load of cell flats that are probably in need of watering, but I need to wait for the Dayquil to kick in before I do that. Ahhhhh! Dayquil!

The thermometer/hygrometer in the pic is sweet. 10 bucks on Amazon, and works well, recording both daily high and low. It’s not an outdoor thermometer, but works great in a greenhouse! I want to buy a slew of them and put them everywhere.