Turn your irrigation off tomorrow
Just a friendly reminder shut your irrigation off tomorrow before the freeze, because if it runs during the next few days when it is freezing you will do considerable damage to the plants. Leave it off until the cold weather passes then turn it back on.
It will take a few days after a freeze before you see the damage done. Don't be alarmed, the ground will not freeze and the plants will usually recover on their own. Even though you will see leaves turning brown try not to trim it back even though it looks bad, by doing so the plant will get hurt even harder if we have another freeze.
Do not fertilize them or give them more water then normal when you turn your water back on, that will also hurt the plants. Just be patient, and wait until around the 1st or 2nd week in March then trim them back and feed them. Remember if we have another freeze, just go through the same routine again and turn your water off, it usually takes about 3 or 4 days for our cold fronts to pass.
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Ron
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