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Curmudgeoness

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3. I have been surprised at how plants respond to late freezes.
Mon Apr 8, 2013, 07:04 PM
Apr 2013

Most plants will make it through. Any plant that matters to you, if I were you, should be covered. But I have seen years when all the trees were leafed out, and a deep frost hit and killed all the leaves. The trees looked like they were dead, but they did produce more leaves after the frost killed the first ones. So don't worry too much about most of the plants, and cover what really matters. I have a bunch of old sheets that I keep to use for this purpose. If you use plastic, get it off before the sun comes up (if the sun comes up).

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