Brrrrrrr!!!

Yeah that's what I said, besides the oh crap, when at 3:30 am my frost alarm went off. As my luck would have it just that morning I had transferred 30 flats of the first run of Tomatoes to greenhouse-2. Which just happens to not be heated. So I find myself transferring all those flats back to greenhouse-1 putting them on top of the lights and covering them. Good thing, as if I hadn't it would have been an ugly sight. Would have been toasted tomatoes. It got pretty chilly "bout 28F. And as my good luck for the evening continued I finished just in time to go in the house and find that it was time to go to Farmers Market.
Originally my good luck started when in the evening, I took my frost alarm out of the shop where it was after tracking soil temps the last few days, and putting in back in the bedroom. Smart move. Thank you, small still voice, which by the way is one of the best tools a small vegetable farmer can have. If it wasn't for that smart move I would have been very bummed, and then had to beat myself up for months. Way to go smarty. Give yourself three pats on the back.
This is the season of nights sometimes rudely being disturbed by the beeping of the frost alarm. It can be so simple as, oh no problem everythings covered and it won't be too chilly I can bump the setting down and go back to sleep, to Oh Crap I got to go turn water on and hope that the temp dosn't keep dropping. That was last year. Last year fter a week of being up most nights for a week checking row covers( or spraying ice off uncovered crops at 4AM) and everything going pretty well we had a doosey of a frost. I new we were in for a cold one at sundown but when it hit 32F at 11pm I was a bit nervous. That night I knew we could be in for mid-20's and the agribon will keep us safe for about 28F and those few extra degrees can be fatal. At that point I turn on the drip lines and that will actually give me another 2-3 degrees of protection, that little trickle of warm water makes an itty bitty micro climate, which last year when it got to 24F and I had been up all night doing monitoring things I had reason to celebrate everything making it through unscathed.
Iv'e got many more frost stories but maybee later, I've got to go celebrate this one small victory plus the good market today.