Cold Snap Coming

Time to protect plants, delay sowing, and more fun ideas for the garden this year

Cold nights are on their way to us, settling over Seattle and the neighboring areas on Monday night. This is pretty usual for this time of year — we’ve been in what local gardeners call “false spring.” Incidentally, Cliff Mass denies false spring is a thing, but whatever. Many plants have bloomed and budded and they’re about to freeze. We don’t have sno…