 Hello and welcome to Getting Clean on the Prairies and happy first day of summer. We're out here in my garden again where I have been planning to have the first day of summer garden update. But things in the garden aren't quite what I expected they would be like today because last night we were hit with a killer frost, which has caused some more problems in my garden that I wasn't expecting at this time of year. Here in Zone 3 Saskatchewan we should normally have frost at this time of the season. It's usually our last frost date is about the third week of May. There's always risk of frost early June, which if you've watched some of my other videos I experienced also in my garden. And so I wasn't very happy to see the weather report yesterday when it said that temperatures were going to be dropping to a low of plus four with a risk of frost. So here in our yard we tend to drop a little bit lower always. We kind of are in some kind of a frost zone or something where if the weatherman tells you it's going to drop to plus four, chances are it could drop to zero or you know a few degrees lower. So we always have to kind of keep that in mind here in our yard. So Press and I came out last night and we covered everything with all the sheets and towels and covers that we could find and got most of the stuff pretty protected. So we thought anyway as good as we could do. So I'm just going to take you on a little walk around, show you some of the damage that hit some of my plants here in the garden. So this morning when I got up at 5.30 a.m. I quickly checked the temperature with Environment Canada and it said it was plus two. So then I knew for sure that meant that it had to have been zero or lower out here in my yard. And so I came out right away to do a quick check before I had to leave for work. So this is one of my raised garden beds that we covered with a bed sheet. This morning there was a lot of moisture on the tops and I could see wherever you know there was contact with the sheets and a lot of moisture that it froze slightly and it burnt some of the leaves on my bean plants here and also on my cucumber. So it didn't kill them but it's definitely going to cause some stress. And we'll see how well they could produce in the long run. Onions came out okay. And in this raised garden bed I had some plastic covers for my peppers that seemed to do the job, kept them pretty protected. These poor peppers have already been through one frost. So they're definitely tough and I'm hoping that they will pull through this one again and keep growing. Then the tips of tomatoes got pretty burnt here. These are ones that were in pots that I hadn't planted out yet after the last frost that we had. So they got planted out afterwards. This is my sweet 100s I believe it's called that I purchased to replace some of my dead tomatoes and you can see there's a lot of burnt leaves but I think it'll probably bounce back. This one also got some damage as well. Everything that we had covered up with sheets here, my other tomatoes, my lettuces, beets they all seem to survive with no visible damage so that's good. I had some spare space in with these smaller tomatoes so I thought why not throw in some kale seeds so I see it's popping up and growing really well. So I'll be harvesting some of that soon. I've been harvesting spinach every day. My yellow beets are coming along good here and my romaine lettuce is starting to fill in pretty good so I should be able to start harvesting that for some salad soon. I had just planted up this flower box last weekend and didn't have anything to cover it last night but it looks like everything came out okay. The potatoes that I have growing in straw and containers are really coming along good as you can see they are filling up these containers. Again we had them covered with bed sheets but they got some frost damage. The leaves here which I'm hoping will not slow them down too much. I have a lot of potatoes popping up through the straw here now in these rows as well. So what we did with those to try and protect them was just pull up more straw around them and covered them up so that they were protected through the night and it seemed to work pretty good. A little bit of damage on some of the tips of the leaves. The 10 corn seedlings that I planted directly into the straw here have taken hold and they are starting to grow so that's good. We had them covered up last night as well so they hopefully are going to keep growing here. My squash and peas in containers seem to be okay. I can see a little bit of burn damage, frost damage here on this squash and this poor guy here is the one who I got hit pretty hard when it was just like at a 2-4 leaf stage when the last frost hit and it looked like it wasn't completely dead so I left it and it took off again and then the poor thing got hit again so hopefully it will make it tougher and stronger and it will keep going. So my urban flower bed here short of removing sheets off our own beds we pretty much had nothing left to cover them up so I just brought a big container of dried leaves and grass clippings and buried everything as good as I could last night just to try and protect so I kind of buried all my herbs they seem to be okay but then when I unearthed my basil it is not I don't think it's a survivor it is pretty looks pretty dead so I will be probably off to the greenhouse to grab another basil plant. This was a Thai basil herb that I had just bought at the greenhouse and planted up and I had harvested a bunch of basil off of it yesterday morning and put it into one of our roasted vegetable dishes last night for supper it was so good and then I come out this morning and I don't know if it's going to come back. There is some green still here so I may be able to trim it down and hopefully it will come back and then oddly enough the stevia over here doesn't look like it's affected at all with any frost damage so it's kind of interesting to see how some plants are more tolerant than others over here was my zinnia plants I had stuck four in the ground here and two of them just got hit hard this one that was in the flowering stage seems to be okay so I think other than that everything else looks like it survived these petunias were hit very hard in the first frost and they turned a yellow color they were just starting to look like maybe they were going to come back and petunias are usually a pretty hardy flower here in zone three so I'm confident that they will continue to grow and bloom I was happy to see that this round of frost didn't wipe out my sunflower patch here so because they're really starting to take off now and hopefully we'll see some sunflower blooming here in the next month or so so that is a quick tour of my garden on the first day of summer here in zone three Saskatchewan Canada and as I said at the beginning of my video things aren't looking quite as as great and healthy as I was hoping at this time but again I'm confident that things are going to bounce back so things might be a little bit stunted and it might be a little bit slower to produce tomatoes and peppers and some of those those plants that need a lot of consistent warm days to be healthy and produce the way we hope that they will I think the stuff like the carrots the beets the peas all those you know are pretty pretty hardy and tolerant to the cool weather so hopefully they will continue to grow the weatherman is now telling us hot hot weather this week tomorrow I believe it's 30 degrees Celsius is the high which is high 80s maybe low 90s going into the next week so we're back to hot weather and no rain my water tank is almost dry I think I'm down to about 100 gallons of rain water in my in my garden tank so I'm going to have to resort to well water probably hopefully the hot weather will bring us you know maybe some thunder showers that always fills up the rain barrels really fast and give everything a quick drink so thank you for taking a walk with me in my garden and listening to my whining and sad story of frost hitting the garden and feeling sorry for some of my plants here but again that is part of the gardening game that we all deal with whether it's always something that we can't control and just got to try and work with it I'm excited that we'll be eating a lot of salad soon and it's looking like the potatoes are going to start blooming so the there's still lots to look forward to and work for here in our garden so thank you for joining me here in my garden again and I hope that you will please leave a comment let me know what's going on in your gardening world and don't forget to hit the subscribe button and that notification bell so that you are notified next time I have another video up on the channel thanks for watching