Cover your tomatoes!
Here's this spring's suggestion list for how to protect your tomatoes from frost. More suggestions welcomed.
First frost warnings for 2008 follow; I got this message via the Emergency Email Network (free).
MIZ069-070-075-076-082-083-
/O.NEW.KDTX.FR.Y.0003.
OAKLAND-MACOMB-WASHTENAW-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF.PONTIAC.WARREN.ANN ARBOR.
DETROIT.ADRIAN.MONROE
1214 PM EDT FRI OCT 3 2008
FROST ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 2 AM TO 8 AM EDT SATURDAY.
THE NATL WEATHER SVC IN DETROIT/PONTIAC HAS ISSUED A
FROST ADVISORY.WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 2 AM TO 8 AM EDT
SATURDAY.
CLEAR SKIES & CALM WINDS WILL LEAD TO VERY COLD TEMPS
TONIGHT. TEMPS ACROSS EXTREME SE MI WILL DROP
INTO THE LOW TO MID 30S ALLOWING WIDESPREAD FROST TO DEVELOP.
SOME OF THE MORE RURAL LOCATIONS FURTHER AWAY FROM THE GREATER DETROIT AREA
MAY EVEN SEE TEMPS BRIEFLY DROP BELOW FREEZING.
A FROST ADVISORY MEANS THAT FROST IS POSSIBLE. THOSE WITH
AGRICULTURAL INTERESTS IN THE ADVISORY AREA ARE ADVISED TO TAKE
MEASURES TO PROTECT TENDER VEGETATION. SENSITIVE OUTDOOR PLANTS
MAY BE KILLED IF LEFT UNCOVERED.
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