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Old 02-19-2014, 06:24 PM
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Rose_P
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Everybody keeps talking about the weather and nobody's doing anything about it!

It's been 80-ish several days in a row here, and the low tonight is predicted to be 64. That's like a summer night where I grew up in Kansas. But we had what's called a "bad winter". Had to cover the tropical plants in our yard several times. If you don't live in a climate like this (zone 8), you may be surprised to know that putting a thin old bed sheet over a tender plant will help a lot to keep the frost off it when the temperatures go only a little below freezing for a few hours. I was skeptical about that when we first moved here, but it definitely helps. We'll be getting some more 40-ish nights before winter is over, but another freeze is officially unlikely after Valentine's Day.
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