Thursday, January 14, 2010

Bundle Up!


You may have been following the news coverage about how the freeze of 2010 decimated much of Florida’s agriculture. Luckily we were at the southern tip of the state, but temperatures still plummeted to 29 degrees here. We prepared by covering at least a quarter acre of the farm with swaths of a gauzy polyester (as seen in the picture above). The vegetables and herbs pulled through, but unfortunately we lost a lot of our edible flowers like wild petunia and clitoria that will take a few weeks to rejuvenate.

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