Woke up this morning and there were huge limbs down, and 10 inches of wet heavy snow on the ground. Unfortunately some of my strawberry plants were in blossom. I had trays of peppers outside to finish off hardening but decided to take them in last night. Need to go shovel a path to the greenhouse.
Previous Journals
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Building 150 feet of raised beds & hauling 6000 pounds of compost
Glass Greenhouse garden and Backyard Vegetable garden
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Glass Greenhouse garden
Later Journals
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Prepping my beds - a major ordeal
Glass Greenhouse garden and Backyard Vegetable garden
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Got a 135% germination rate or I have fat fingers.
Pepper: California Wonder Potting Up and Glass Greenhouse garden
Comments
halhurst wrote:
What a frustrating turn of events. Hope your greenhouse is still warm enough.
Posted on 23 Apr 12 (about 1 year ago)
blurdom wrote:
oooof! Hopefully your greenhouse was spared any damage from falling limbs!
Posted on 23 Apr 12 (about 1 year ago)
cristina wrote:
Sorry. Three nights ago It has snowed here too.
Posted on 23 Apr 12 (about 1 year ago)
hotwired wrote:
I have a pellet Stove running in the Greenhouse with two backups. There’s a 1500W baseboard electric heat system that will kick on at 50F, and 1500W Space heater backup that kicks on if it hits 35F. I have over 2000 plants in there, so I wasn’t going to take any chances with heat going out. My new 40’ long Hoop-house over my tomato raised beds was sure straining under all that wet snow but the 6-mil poly held up just fine. I built an extension handle on a push broom and cleared the greenhouse roof and hoop-house. There were two 5" diameter limbs that came crashing down from the weight, but there’s no trees around the greenhouse, so it’s all good.
Posted on 23 Apr 12 (about 1 year ago)
anelson wrote:
Oh no! It should not be snowing that much in late April! Glad your greenhouse and house were not damaged.
Posted on 23 Apr 12 (about 1 year ago)
flowerweaver wrote:
How frustrating! Glad you have your back up heaters!
Posted on 23 Apr 12 (about 1 year ago)
KathN wrote:
Oh goodness. The weather is nuts! Glad all is mostly well.
Posted on 23 Apr 12 (about 1 year ago)
rosemarieGardener wrote:
Those ’noreasters will do it every time. Luckily we here in Maine were spared. Sounds like you weathered the weather well.
Posted on 23 Apr 12 (about 1 year ago)
redloon wrote:
Yikes! I’m glad to hear that your greenhouses/hoophouses made it through okay!
Posted on 23 Apr 12 (about 1 year ago)
halhurst wrote:
I’ve been thinking of your situation all day. I didn’t get the significance of your strawberries being in flower. I assume they were outside. Do you expect them to recover?
Posted on 24 Apr 12 (about 1 year ago)
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