Hold Your Horseradishes, Wait To Plant Garden Until Frost Threat Passes
April 7, 2016
Nashville, TN – Go ahead and plan your best garden ever. You should even go out to the local farmers market or greenhouse and bring home those gorgeous tomato plants, seedling herbs, peppers and all the rest. Just please don’t plant them, yet.
Mark Twain may have been talking about Tennessee when he said, “If you don’t like the weather here, wait a minute.”
The current weather trend is a perfect example, with balmy mid-70’s days followed by stormy cold fronts with freezing temperatures at night.
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Tennessee Strawberries Prepare To Take Cover
April 3, 2016
Nashville, TN – Tennessee’s much anticipated strawberry crop will be ready for picking in the next two or three weeks. However, between now and harvest, if current forecasts hold, those berries may have to “take cover” several times to avoid frost damage.
Tennessee weather is predictably unpredictable. It may be spring, but Tennessee typically experiences a few more winter-like periods—called blackberry winter and dogwood winter—before the average late April last-freeze date has passed.
Strawberry Crops will be ready for picking the next few weeks.
