With a blink of an eye and a cold front that rolled in, my poor hibiscus plants never had a chance. It rained hard all day and the temperatures dropped from 72 degrees to 40. I ran out in the rain and covered all my plants. The tomatoes were covered with big pots and the hibiscus were covered with bags. Since I couldn't move the pots in the house, I pulled them up against the house and covered them best I could. Later in the evening I heard sleet hitting the windows. And all I could think of was, "I can't believe I planted these plants. Why didn't I look at the forecast???" I'm a forecast junkie! I always need to know what the weather is. What happened? Did my brain stop working because it was shocked to feel the warm sunny weather? That must be it.
So this morning when I went out to check on them, the tomato plants looked fine but the hibiscus were completely frozen. Oh, I'm so mad at myself right now. A waste of my time and money. When I got home tonight, Ken and I decided together to lift up these heavy pots and bring them inside the house. Why we didn't do this last night is beyond me. I think it was because it was pouring down rain and all I could think of was cover them, cover them now! DUMB! So even though they look terrible, there may be a chance that they could survive from this even though I doubt it. But I'll give it a week and see how they look.
As for my tomato plants. They looked good this morning but didn't look so good tonight. So I will take this as a loss too. In order to get a good bounty of tomatoes, you have to start with a healthy plant. So what I wonder now is, how many plants were ruined at Home Depot and Lowe's and how long do I wait before buying new replacement plants? I'm just so frustrated and bummed.
Back to the old drawing board. Maybe if I'm lucky, I'll get my 1st vegetable plants planted by May 1st?
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| Early Girl |
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| Grape tomatoes |
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| Hybiscus |
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| A few days later and all the leaves are falling off |
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