Brrr: Middle Tennessee freeze warning could impact mums

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — At first, the drought impacted pumpkin farmers. Now, of us who purchased mums want to guard them from frost this week.

Excited children like Olivia Antun are frolicking by pumpkin patches because it lastly seems like fall. At Flying Ghost Pumpkin Patch on White Bridge Street, persons are getting their fall décor collectively.

For Jessica Eichman, meaning getting a mum.

“Nicely, they’re so showy, they usually’re only a good, lovely puff ball of shade. They’re straightforward to look after. You simply stick it wherever encompass the pot with pumpkins, you don’t even should plant it within the floor,” Eichman mentioned.

A freeze warning is in impact for Monday night into Tuesday morning.

Eichman did not understand crops and blooming mums are in danger.

“That has not been a part of my calculus. I’m simply in search of fairly stuff, however now you’ve obtained me considering I have to be cautious about the place I put my mum,” Eichman mentioned.

Based on Justin Speakman, they needed to get frost fabric to guard these mums.

“Retains um’ from dying,” Speakman mentioned.

Some farmers are hustling to get all their mums offered, so they do not should maintain protecting up dozens of mums.

“From what I’ve been advised by our growers, in the event that they’re not bloomed out but, they’re really protected from the frost,” Speakman mentioned, “The frost solely kills the flower as soon as it’s bloomed.”

Eichman is hoping hers will make it. “I’m considering forward, I need it to look spectacular within the subsequent couple of weeks,” Eichman mentioned.

And for the little ones, the Halloween countdown has begun.