Same here, I set my plants outside to get some sun maybe 6 -7 days ago. it must have been too cool before I brought them back it, everything is now stunted, 50 plants will maybe be a right off.

well, the good news is its end of march... start them again 🙂
Live an learn and it need be, remember you can always buy starts from the garden center if all else fails 🙂

Same here, I set my plants outside to get some sun maybe 6 -7 days ago. it must have been too cool before I brought them back it, everything is now stunted, 50 plants will maybe be a right off.

Give them a chance to come back.. what kind.. tomatoes will most likely recover now if they were all pepper babies.. hmmm.. that could be a different ball game

.. what kind..

Cherry roma tomatos, peppers, Yellow tomatos, Roma tomatos. Principe Borghese tomatos, Rio Grande tomatos, and Cucumbers.

Gave up this AM. Some tomatoes are on life support and a few may come back. I've re-seeded the peppers and marigolds (I use them for companion plating). I'm out of tomato seeds, so I'll go in town and buy something off the rack - I learned a lesson about having all my eggs in the same basket!

It's too cold here in Calgary to leave my plants out even just overnight. I grow them indoor under grow lights. Just last week, I got 50+ little tomatoes as my last harvest of my first winter crops. Cloned two new tomato plants a month ago to replace the first two that I just removed. These two should last until late May when we can start planting outside.

it is so true, you can take a cutting from your favorite, root it up late fall, over winter and in the spring, trim an create many more babies ready to go out in the same way.. thanks for reminding folks of that way of doing so

I'm going to try basically wild planting beets on a friend's property. Choose a location, amend soil as best as I can with locally available materials, plant seeds and see how it goes.

My wife and I are also going to try our hand at indoor growing of vegetables and herbs.

Beds are tilled, walk paths are mulched with straw and wood chips. Last year's sprouted potatoes are planted in my front yard's "flower beds" while I'm waiting for my seed potatoes ordered online. Onions planted. Zucchinis in pots in the greenhouse. Picking up my saskatoon berries trees from the County Ag dept next week (5 for $12... I'm guessing they'll be about an inch tall, but hey). Haskaps and red currants bushes should be in in a couple of weeks. Discovered that one of the tree we have on a property is a pear tree, meaning we now have 2.

I'm happy... will be happier with some guarantee that spring will stay!

Finally, tore down an old aluminium "garden shed" that had no use, was an eyesore and a safety risk with the (no so) little ones. Realized that the shed was filled with mice droppings, so masked up, poured out copious amounts of diluted bleach and cleaned up the place. Tin Cats mouse traps now strategically located around the property, pending the right opportunity to get a Real Cat 😉

Does anyone have experience with Jerusalem Artichokes? I have a small patch near our driveway that I'd like to expand elsewhere. How can I got about multiplying them?

I grow four kinds of them.. they are easy to expand, not quite as easy to control lol

Dig them up.. take the small ones, create a trench, plant them, repeat into a patch or rows and replant them and let them grow all season.. in the fall, harvest most of them and take out the big ones and repeat above for the next year harvest.. Treat them like carrots, damp sand, or can them for winter holding.

Leave at least a few full plants in place for spring digging and harvest as soon as the soil can be worked as they are one of the springs foods available

Planted my seeds early in March..and with the warm weather was hoping this weekend was the time to move everything to the garden....but it'll be -1 and -2 in my area of Ontario...

The peas will go out and I may start on some leafy stuff...but the tomatoes, beans, etc. are staying inside for another week or two. Trying to get a head start on that May 24th "official" start date.

Question: If I did for arguments sake plant everything outside next week and the temp dropped to -2 or so again....If i cover everything up am I good? Or will my plants still have long term affects from the freezing? Can I plant and just cover them up or should I just wait and keep them indoors?

Ok, so the answer is two-fold.. one if you can cover them properly, the odds are very good that IF they have been properly hardened off, that they will be just fine.. but if not hardened off enough even covered, they are going to at the very least going to hunker down and pout 🙂

Given I have seen the forecasts for the next days, they are still talking the possablity of snow..sigh... I have the ability to cover things, but I am keeping everything in this weekend and will plant out next week..

Now having said that, I am not covering anything that was in ground planted, like pea's broad beans and greens, cabbage and so forth.. they can take cold.. I will cover if its going to snow.. (shakes head on that one)

I'm hoping that all I've got outside will be good. This weekend is technically the average last frost date, although I know most people wait until the May 24 weekend as the chance reduces even further. I planted half my area of beans a week ago to tempt fate and they're sprouting up finely. The 14-day forecast seems to agree that we won't get frost, but just a copious amount of rain. Which should be good for my carrots I hope.

I also spur-of-the-moment bought some lumber and built two 5x2 beds and some seed potatoes. I'm gonna keep half for us, and donate half to the local food bank. I've got a bunch of extra seed and some old planters laying around, so I'm going to do the same with leftover veg seeds.

I have two raised beds and the rest of my plants in planters. zucchini was a battle this year. Out of all that I started, I got two plants. They're going strong out in one of the raised beds now. They were started by soaking the seeds for a few days and then into peat pots, then when they were bigger, they went outside into the square foot bed. Cucumbers, I have three now. I had four, but the 'runt' seems to have died. I have about ten tomato plants od various sorts. Some of those came from seed from Manitoba, others came from (believe it or not) a kit from the dollar store. A rolled up, pre-seeded, moisture mat. Drop it into a planter, keep well watered, and voila! Tomatoes. It really was that simple until I realized they were all crowding each other. They're all doing really well out in the square foot garden too. I also have two bell pepper plants and two Hungarian pepper plants. I think they're about to flower. On a whim one day in town, I saw tomatoes "guaranteed to bear fruit by July 31 or your money back". Not sure what sort they are, but we love tomatoes so it doesn't matter too much to us. They're doing well.
The first and second crop of peas are doing very well in the trough planter, but I think I may have planted them a bit thick. It's time to start the next crop. I started collards and kale the other day, without soaking the seed. In only three or four days they're already green shoots. They'll likely be ready for the square foot beds sometime next week.

Now if only my carrots would do as well...