BOISE, Idaho (KBOI) – It’s about to get cold outside.
Overnight temperatures could approach freezing for the first time this season. And, if you’ve been gardening, there are a couple things you need to do if you want to keep your plans growing in this cooler weather.
Flowers are are susceptible to frosty temperatures so if you want to keep their colors vibrant for a few more weeks you should cover them with a frost blanket or a row cover for the next couple of nights.
Some vegetables, especially tomatoes, taste awful if they are left growing on the vine during a freeze.
“I’m going to go home and pick all my red tomatoes tonight for sure,” said Amber Garden, Zamzows greenhouse manager. “I’m also going to just go through and pick all the cucumbers I can. But I am going to hope that those green tomatoes will still turn red. I think we have some time.”
Leaving the green tomatoes on the vine is a good idea because there is a chance that parts of the Treasure Valley won’t quite reach 32 degrees and if you lose them, they weren’t ready anyway.
Other vegetables can keep right on growing because they aren’t sensitive to quick periods of freezing temperatures.
“Things that aren’t are your lettuce, your radishes and your cold crop kind of things like broccoli and things. So you don’t need to worry about those so much, but tomatoes and peppers for sure.”
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