will my tater plants freeze??

PLANTS 3 INCH HI OR LOWER...FORECAST 28, NEXT 2 NITES...W. OF FT WORTH...IF PROTECT NEEDED, WILL VISQUINE JUST LAID OVER WORK?? AM GONNA BUCKET 10 MATERS.
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Throw some straw on top of them and they will be just fine plus put off more fruit in the straw

The VISQUINE will freeze any leaves/plant it touched. For covers to work the have to be above the plants so there is an air barrier. I would just straw them like old talked about. If you do have something to cover them with just lay it over the straw. The cover will have to come off when the afternoon sun reaches the plants.

The plastic sheeting should work fine, but don"t forget to uncover fairly early, or your plants might cook.

We get frosts clear into June almost every year and I have had to cover my plants many times to keep them from being killed, or at least damaged from the cold.

Once on JULY 7th, in the mid 1960"s, we had a frost that put ice on the water tank and which really damaged our garden. The potato plants, which were 6 or 8 inches tall, got black and died back to the ground. The potatoes grew new plants in a couple of weeks, but our yield of potatoes was poor from the plants that year. All in all, it was a lousy gardening season that year. Never saw frost that bad, that late again at our place.

We have also had mild frost a couple of times in late August, and usually get a serious frost about the second or third week of September. I have found that if I can get past those early frosts by covering the plants, often the garden will continue to produce nicely until mid October. But that is the way it is in Eastern Washington at 2500 feet of elevation.

I don"t think my garden space has been thawed more than a couple of weeks. Way too wet and muddy to even consider working the soil yet. Good luck!

My potatoes froze few years ago and came back ok.

if you can just bury them with soil, doesnt hurt them and they will pop up in a few days .

Main growth is below the surface at this point. If the tops freze off , they will just come back. The frost will not go down 3 or 4 inches, that would be needed to kill the new roots. Bruce

Here in NW Ohio I've had volunteer potatoes grow in the spring from what was left the fall which tells me they're pretty tough.

Potato plants will revive and still produce after the folage is bitten by frost or freeze.Have had that happen many times and still have a good crop.

last year in pa mine froze,turned black,came back with a good crop ,but if you could cover them with straw like old said it would be better