Tuesday, March 21, 2017

Freeze Aftermath

As feared, last week there were a couple of very cold nights:  The first night, the temp dropped down to about 25.5 or so and stayed below 28 for 5 hours.  The second night was similar.  For comparison, I'm reposting the pictures from a week and a half ago, before the freeze:




I definitely had losses to my blueberries, but it's not all bad.  If there's no more killing-cold weather, I might get  a crop that's 30%-50% of normal (then again, maybe not: some of the blooms that look like they might be okay may not be).  South Georgia fared worse; for whatever reason some of the blueberry regions were colder than north Georgia--as low as 22.  The rabbiteye farmers had total losses in many cases (rabbiteyes are what I grow, as well).  Georgia won't lead the country in blueberry production this year...



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