{"id":11138,"date":"2016-04-07T10:00:12","date_gmt":"2016-04-07T15:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/?p=11138"},"modified":"2019-10-31T22:09:12","modified_gmt":"2019-11-01T03:09:12","slug":"hold-your-horseradishes-wait-to-plant-garden-until-frost-threat-passes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/2016\/04\/07\/hold-your-horseradishes-wait-to-plant-garden-until-frost-threat-passes\/","title":{"rendered":"Hold Your Horseradishes, Wait To Plant Garden Until Frost Threat Passes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-33044\" title=\"The Tennessee Department of Agriculture\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/tnag.jpg\" alt=\"The Tennessee Department of Agriculture\" width=\"140\" height=\"137\"><strong>Nashville, TN<\/strong> &#8211; 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\u2019t plant them, yet.<\/p>\n<p>Mark Twain may have been talking about Tennessee when he said, \u201cIf you don\u2019t like the weather here, wait a minute.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The current weather trend is a perfect example, with balmy mid-70\u2019s days followed by stormy cold fronts with freezing temperatures at night.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_340084\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Radishes.jpg\"  rel=\"attachment wp-att-340084\" class=\"thickbox no_icon\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-340084\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-340084\" title=\"Radishes\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Radishes-480x360.jpg\" alt=\"Radishes\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\"><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-340084\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Radishes<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!--more-->This roller coaster weather is typical, and a better plan for gardeners anxious to get their hands dirty would be to keep tender purchases on a protected porch or patio. There, plants can \u201charden\u201d to a wider temperature range than they\u2019ve known in a greenhouse.<\/p>\n<p>Exposing plants to natural sunshine during the days and protected lower nighttime temperatures helps plant leaves and stems toughen up and get ready for the real test: summer.<\/p>\n<p>Generally, Tennessee garden planting can wait until after Mother\u2019s Day for best results. Until then, late freezes can at best mean carefully covering vulnerable plants at every threat, and at worst re-purchasing a garden\u2019s worth of plants after an ill-fated first attempt freezes to death.<\/p>\n<p>For now, find the locally grown plants you want and let them get ready for real outdoor conditions. Enjoy checking your early crops like lettuces, spinach, carrots, early peas, onions and other cool weather plants poking through still chilly soils.<\/p>\n<p>These early crops are already being harvested in abundance at local farms that use hoop houses and row covers. Let the experts at farmers markets fill your shopping bags and CSA boxes with sure signs that summer is on the way.<\/p>\n<p>Find local farmers markets, CSA farms, greenhouses and plant nurseries with the free Pick Tennessee mobile app and online at <a href=\"http:\/\/PickTNProducts.org\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">PickTNProducts.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nashville, TN &#8211; 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\u2019t plant them, yet. Mark Twain may have been talking about Tennessee when he said, \u201cIf [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[7054,10852,10864,3885,3559,284,6461,10853,4502,261,1632],"class_list":["post-11138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts-leisure","tag-carrots","tag-frost","tag-garden","tag-lettuce","tag-mothers-day","tag-nashville-tn","tag-peas","tag-pick-tennessee","tag-spinach","tag-tennessee","tag-tennessee-department-of-agriculture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11138"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14974,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11138\/revisions\/14974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}