We’ve hit 0 in the past, but it’s probably been 6 or 7 years since. Heck, it often barely hit single digits in my microclimate the last few years. I’ve been zone pushing with asian persimmons, tea, pomegranates, fuzzy kiwi, and figs. Only good thing is we got 5" of snow right before the cold, so the roots are insulated.
I guess I’ll see what’s alive in a few months, nothing I can do about it now.
We got 2F last winter… but it snowed 6 inches the day before that low. I had leaf lettuce spinach collards growing in my veggie garden with no protection and when the snow melted it was all still alive and well.
If you have anything covered the snow that accumulates on top of that will help too.
Nashville stations were predicting 4F for me last night… but we actually got 12F low… sun is up now and it is slowly climbing.
I have my Cardinal asian persimmon covered and my lettuce hot bed (with lights on for heat gain).
Poms I have are salavatski, AC Sweet and one I can’t remember. Only Salavatski has flowered, but it does ripen. It’s on the south corner of my house so it gets some extra heat.
@ampersand this will be a real test of your Asian persimmons. Hopefully since it was solidly cold coming into this they will fair pretty well.
I hope to hear reports from you @PharmerDrewee and others growing in marginal areas to see how all the Asian varieties you grow faired and what the lowest temps were so that we can learn more about real world hardiness. Hopefully everything comes out great, but this has been a real winter!
Transplanted a LOT of stuff in the fall… will be curious to see what survives. -9 here wednesday morning overnights. Pretty much just at the limit of zone 5b- I think actually on the map I’m in a tiny blip of 5b surrounded by 5a (Not that it really means much).
Anyway I have 1 year whips of apricot and almond I just planted, plus a Nectarine that got transplanted once dormant. A row of apples and pears just went in too. Probably a couple things out there are be toast, but I’m very glad I decided to put my young fig and jujube in the basement this year.
We’ve had snow on the ground 50+ days since Thanksgiving this year. Definitely a much snowier and colder year than in recent memory.
It’s going to be fantastic seeing what happens to all my trees and various other plants. The last time it stayed anywhere near this cold for so long was in 2018. We bottomed out just a tad above zero yesterday and it’ll be below freezing for a whole week. I can’t wait for spring to come to assess for damage. Some local arboreta grow marginal broad leaf evergreens too that I’ll be curious to see.
It’s been brisk here, mornings in the lower single digits. No records broken or anything like that. So far, it’s fairly “normal” for us. Or atleast within the range of whats considered “normal” temperatures.
I just brought in some mazzard rootstocks that were in ice block pots so they will defrost. And Hopefully will break dormancy in a week or so, then I can graft them.
I can report that my Pineapple Guava and Surinam Cherry survived 13 degrees with mulch only.
Figs all look good as well.
it did kill my broccoli and collards
This is what I did also, Made mini hoop houses from 1" PVC and covered with old sheets, then heavy clear plastic after attaching the Christmas lights to my citrus trees. Also tucked some perennials in pots underneath and some herbs. I still have basil surviving and a tobacco plant flowering that a friend gave me this summer. Just have to remember to uncover once the sun comes out because this is against my house facing South. I’m middle GA.
A bright spot is all my Asian persimmons came through with no damage that I’d attribute to cold. This includes cultivars not known to be particularly cold hardy like Izu, Matsumoto Fuyu, and Nishimura Wase. In fact, Nishimura Wase looks to be covered in flower buds.
