Organic Gardening

This is me, crying over my garden. My beautiful garden that I worked so hard for. It has been in the 30's at night for over a week and after Sunday night, my plants had had enough and gave in.

I lost about 10 tomato plants, all of my basil, 4 pepper plants, squash, cucumbers, everything. My husband had made a tent around 8 of my tomatoes with a canvas drop cloth on top and those are the only plants that survived. To make it worse, my teacher's farm around the corner, lost almost everything. This is the biggest loss he has seen in 20 years. He lost all of his peppers, tomatoes, beans, and eggplant. This is also the farm that we bought our share from. I'm not sure what we will get now for the next 5 months. It's very sad. The weather just didn't give us a break. Not only have they been subjected to the cold every night but unless you uncover and recover at night, they don't see the sun either. I'm gonna try to start some seeds and see if I can grow some more tomatoes, but the reality is that they wouldn't flower for at least 2 - 2 1/2 months and then it might be too hot and wet for them. So we'll just have to see. I will be planting a lot of spinach, some sugar snap peas, and I will try to grow some cucumbers again. Well It is still in the 30's outside so when it warms up I will take some pictures of my pathetic garden and post them.