Save Your Garden from a Spring Cold Snap
The word alone stirs fear into the hearts of spring gardeners everywhere: frost. Just when you thought you were free to plant, the weather changes and you get surprised by a late cold snap.
By definition, a frost is when air temperatures dip down enough to create ice crystals on surfaces—a light freeze—like you see on the tall sedum in the photo above. This can happen when cold air settles to the ground while warm air moves upward on still, cloudless nights. Low areas can get a frost even when other nearby places don’t because of that settling air. Frost will also occur when cold
