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We're off to a cold start this morning. A frost advisor advisory rather is in effect for parts of North Jersey until nine o'clock this morning. Our Lauren do. She took thunderbolt 12 to Parsippany and she is joining us now from a greenhouse as they are working to protect those plants. Lauren, what's the secret behind it? I know. So we're going to go, we made our way into a different section because look at this, it is 38 degrees. We bumped up one degree from 30 minutes ago. You know why? Because the director of Vibes is here. We got man in the house morning. Thanks for coming by director. But yeah, thank you. I make sure all the vibes are good here. Services in parts of amazing. So you want to show us around and show us what you do to protect these plants from the frost and freeze because we are below 40 degrees. Yeah, definitely. So we're right now, we're right outside of our greenhouse um in the perennial yard. We have um our red shade cloth here. This helps some of our perennials from frost damage. Uh We also have some of our cold tolerant annuals and herbs outside. Ok. We cover some of them with a shade cloth to protect them from the frost as well. And then there's some herbs that we don't keep out here because they can't handle the cold at all, such as basil and stuff like that. Um, and all of the house plants and other annuals are inside the greenhouse, staying in the heat because can't handle the cold at all either. So, if someone has these annuals or herbs outside, can they put a cloth like this too to help protect their plants if they already did it? Yeah, definitely. Yeah, that helps a lot. It helps protect them from the moisture in the air which causes the frost when it dips below, you know, freezing. Ok. Do you want to take everyone inside and show them what herbs you brought inside? Because if someone has them at home, they're like, oh, no, we got to see her. Yeah, definitely. So, on this rack we bring this wreck in and out of the house every day because we have most of our basil on here and the basil cannot take the cold at all. Very sensitive to the cold. So, yeah, we have multiple varieties of basil here that stay inside the greenhouse overnight to be protected. Amazing. Yeah. Look at all this. It feels so nice that I would love if I stayed in here. Bring it out in s for s greenhouse. Right. Here, it's really close to route 80 I think. Right. Right. Right off route 80. Yeah, there you go. That's where we are this morning. Lauren do East New Jersey.

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First we have that frost advisory in effect for parts of North Jersey until nine this morning. Our Lauren do took thunderbolt 12 to Parsippany. She's joining us this morning, live from a greenhouse there because Lauren, a lot of people are going to be concerned this morning about what they can do to protect those plants. Yeah. You know, it's kind of scary when the temperatures drop after you spent a lot of money. But I have a guest meteorologist today, Tylers about here froms for greenhouse and you want to give us your best thunderbolt. Sure thing. What's up everyone? Good morning. And Tyler here from Thunderbolt News 12, we have a cool 39 degree morning here looks like a 0 to 1 mile per hour. Northeast east wind. Is that correct? Am I right? Not so bad, but temperature wise 39. Is that scary for the plants? When do you start to worry? So 39 for the stuff we're going to talk about out here is ok for right now. But generally speaking, anything under 40 degrees, we get an alert for our staff here to take a caution on things that are outside for frost preventative purposes. All right. So let's walk back there so we can show everyone at home what you do. And I think we are going to go down this house. We don't want to get you because you turned on the irrigation system. So what, what's going on there? And we also pictures that you sent us too of what happens when you do get the freezing. Sure. So if you take a look back here, what we do as a frost preventative measure here, we'll actually run our irrigation with the intention of freezing foliage. The stuff you see out here is all cold hardy for New Jersey, depending on where you are. We're zone five, zone six borderline plants. This stuff is hardy for outdoor purposes. However, if there's growth that's tender, that's stuff that's just popping out, we've had early season warm weather, that stuff can be sensitive to in the 32 degree range. So what we'll do is we'll run irrigation with the intention of actually freezing the foliage, which will prevent that. It'll insulate that and the ice around the foliage will actually prevent it from hitting those harder temps that are in the, you know, maybe high twenties, mid twenties, which could cause further damage. So that's what we're doing here out in the nursery right now. All right, we also are going to go inside, you got, you put some plants in the greenhouse, you put the blankets on. So we're going to show you guys all the professions, preventions that they do it here. We're in Pippa Lauren de, in East New Jersey.

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A local garden center explains the technology and methods used to protect spring plants when the temperatures drop. 

How to protect spring plants from frost and freeze

A local garden center explains the technology and methods used to protect spring plants when the temperatures drop.

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