It will be interesting to see if I get a take on my second pea bed. Odds do not look too good. It was one of those things where once I had set the seeds to soak, I was locked in. Looking back I should have not played that hand. Sowing seeds this time of year can be "ify" . It appears that conditions were too cold for peas. This year has been an odd one. The temperature swings have just been crazy. Fabric has been a very useful tool to help modify the swings, but when you have temperatures in the 70's and then a day and a half later it is 9 degrees, it is beyond fabrics capabilities.
I look back at 2011 and there was a similar swing with a couple very strong cold fronts that followed a very warm period. The events happened the first and second weeks of February. During this back to back events the mercury got down to single digits. This too had the effect of completely shutting the garden down.
Once these two events were over there were no more freezes until fall. And the garden was back into full production two weeks after these events had passed.
It just might be very worth while to recite the serenity prayer until this sine curve weather moderates enough so that the fabric can do its magic. I have tried for many years to see what exceeding the capabilities of fabric to modify the temperature looked like and now I know.
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