Using buckets, boxes, glass cloches and more, Colorado residents are doing everything they can to shield their plants from the freezing temperatures on the way. On Friday, CBS4 spotted several homes in the metro area ready for the snow.
“The bound is cucumbers. I’ve got zucchinis in this bucket, carrots over here,” Santry said. “I’m a little bummed. I’m a little worried cause we have seedlings in there too, but it’s Colorado, I was ready.”“I just wanted to take the precautions to protect the very sensitive plants – the tomatoes, egg plants, peppers, all the sensitive flowers,” said Cameron. “I just took a bunch of cloches. It’s kind of like a classic French approach to keeping your plants from freezing in early spring.
Country Fair Garden Center on Leetsdale Driver not only had to cover all their plants with frost cloth, but they sold out of protective covers on Thursday. “It was madness, everybody just coming in and buying everything that we had. Right now we’re just hunkering down,” said Douglas Long, the Country Fair Garden Center assistant manager. “I think a lot of people are just waiting now.”“The one thing that’s nice, is that it’s a wet cold,” Long said. “The moisture will actually help protect them to a degree, but that’s up in like the 31-32 range and not down in the 28-29.”“Yes, please lord, please, I hope my plants make it.