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I don't know if you can get King Arthur flour or Pioneer Mills flour where you are. If you can get either of those, they work great for bread.

Make sure you are using bread flour or all purpose flour, and not self-rising flour.

/johnny

I think I saw King Arthur’s last time I was in the store. I’ll check. Thanks!

And I’m pretty sure I was using all-purpose every time, but dad likes to consolidate things without reading the labels, so once in a while it might have been a mix. But it can’t have been that way every time.

The weather reports to my computer still say 30 degrees tonight. I don't know it will get that low in the walled garden but I can't chance it. I have too many strong veggies growing in containers to risk it - plus, the maybe 16 small pots in the little greenhouse are strong but small but are growing well - sweet and hot peppers of different kinds, another kind or two of cucumbers, celery, that's all I remember right now but with that many pots I must have forgotten some.

So, I went out there with the three blankets and mounds of row cover and covered everything sitting out in pots - strawberries, several different kinds of onions, 5 kinds of tomatoes, cucumbers, flowers already out there, Mr. Stevia, three containers of blackberries, three containers of potatoes.

I took the small pots out of the greenhouse and put them on a metal chair and covered them with gobs of row cover.

Forgetting the money, I have put too much effort in doing this right to let weather take it away.

All the flowers and herbs and Stevia I bought yesterday are still in the house so they are safe. The rest of the garden seeds are under the grow lamp inside so they are okay.

Oh, yes, the orange tree - the tag says it is okay down to 32 degrees. Well, it has buds all over it ready to bloom so I dragged it across the deck and put it under the covered deck with an outdoor standup fan behind it and the fan is taller than the tree and put a blanket over the fan so it covers the tree without pressure being on top of the tree. It is covered well.

rightly, that orange tree is in a large, tall, black pot with three and a half gallons of soil in there and it's too heavy for me, so I'm going to put it on your dolly you made for me so I can move it around without shaking it. It's heavier than the T squash barrel is.