It will remain indoors as the night-time temperature will move to the upper 20s for the next few months Midland TX, +2300 feet ASL.
Any recommendations for keeping it?
Anyone know what Joe Bastardi says-please chime in. Yard and garden clean up continues. Lemons are almost ripe indoors. Mr. Basil of 5 years is done for - grown in a six inch pot and never transplanted.
It's been a hectic week, and I will have to leave shortly to pick up the great grand kids - together with the grand daughter I always bbsit, that's 4 kids all together for the last couple of days- good thing I have lots more energy these days. LOL
Hope all is well with you and yours. Prayers up for all. Have a great weekend. God Bless.
Pinging the list.
Before our killing frost here in Massachusettts, we brought in two tomato plants. The smaller one is doing well, and my husband has it in front of a slider with a grow lamp on it. We have a very healthy flower blooming, and hope to see many more soon!
I'll drag them inside tonight, tomorrow night and Sunday night due to frost danger. This is the 4th, 5th and 6th times this season. Then another week of mild weather before I give up and pick what's left since we have a week of normal frosty November weather forecast for Thanksgivng week.
Uncanny!
It will remain indoors as the night-time temperature will move to the upper 20s for the next few months Midland TX, +2300 feet ASL.
Any recommendations for keeping it?
Does anybody have experience running a CSA? I’m thinking about getting into that.
An interesting article which continues: "Based on the averages of sea surface temperatures in the tropical Pacific between August and October,
the current event ranked second to the powerful 1997 El Niño, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration."
Joe Bastardi's Weatherbell.com comes out tomorrow.
Bastardi already called for warmer than usual November , a seasonal December ,
and then hold onto your socks and long-johns or the next three months, as I recall.
Will advise of Joe Bastardi's Saturday Summary, if I can get it; sometimes successful/ sometimes not !
Got to run. I’ll check back later.
I’m tearing apart my store this week. Fresh cut Christmas Trees and all the trimmings are coming next week, as are Christmas Cactus, Norfolk Island Pines and the Poinsettias.
All I can say is I’ll be glad when it’s over, LOL!
And then I’ll be leaving my job at the end of January after training up a new Manager and moving from my little farm, to our BIG FARM and retiring to a life of ease...
Oh, wait. I’m pretty sure that ‘ease’ part ain’t gonna happen, LOL! At least I’ll be ‘working’ for myself! Veggie gardens to plan, chickens, hogs and a milk cow to buy and that farmhouse needs some decent landscaping and some TLC!
Househod Six has now retred and sold her business. She found an ad for a used John Deere 318 with a loader, snow thrower, mowing deck and Cyclone leaf vacuum. The next thing I realized, we had bought it!
It is fabulous for leaf removal. The loader will be invaluable for our proects next year and the snow thrower will be well-used this winter.
I raised the back roof on our side deck and will start framing out our heated pantry tomorrow. Busy...busy!
Posting after the horrible world news of the night; but we
gotta try to keep on keeping on. - Husband brought in
several beautiful green variety peppers, fairly large ones.
Think I’ll try to stuff them. Also, the last of the little
tomatoes. Not ripe; but we had to bring them in due to the
freeze forecast tonight. - Well, I guess that’s about the
end of our garden for the season. Winter’s on the way!
We’re getting some much-needed rainfall here in Central Missouri this morning.
It was another busy weekend at my house. Had a colonoscopy done on Friday. That was all clear so I don’t have to that again for another five years. The big winds we had late last week did some damage to my cold frame. One pane of glass is totally shattered and another is badly cracked so I have some cleanup and repairs to make on that.
Saturday was the opener for firearms deer season. Spent a few hours in my tree, then went back to the house and did some chores. Took the trailer back to the sawmill and dropped it off. Spent most of the afternoon in the garden cleaning up. I’m more than half done with that.
Shot a nice buck yesterday morning. It was too warm to let him hang so I worked him up and packed the meat away in the freezer. Dumped the offal in the compost heap and turned the pile over while I was there. It’s cooking down quite nicely and gets better every time I turn it over.