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We've gotten a good bit of rain here in Central Missouri over the past week. I'm not sure exactly how much, but it was between 3 and 4 inches. Temps have been mild but started dropping yesterday evening. There was a quite a lot of frost on the ground this morning. The rain started up again earlier this afternoon. Weather guessers say snow tomorrow morning.

Need to put another deer in the cooler this weekend, replace the broken window panes on the cold frame, retrieve a load of firewood from the sawmill, and a dozen other things that won't all get done. lol

I got the garden mostly cleaned up last weekend. I need to pick the last of the green beans and tear out two rows of tomato plants to be finished for the year. Salad, kale and beets are still going strong.

All the rain filled the pond up to the cut in the dam. It was getting really hard to dig so a little water at this point in time isn't all bad. I tossed the trash pump in after work yesterday. Will be interesting to see how long it takes to empty it back out.

Thanks for the pictures. Nice group of fall veggies.

We also had a lot of rain - not sure how many inches, but our swimming pool which was almost empty is now almost running over. (Guttering diverts the roof water into it).

I haven’t heard the forecast this week - I’ll have to check it later - might need to cover up my garlic.

“Salad, kale and beets are still going strong.”

As a newbie gardener, I’m wondering what to do with my Swiss chard that grew all through the summer and adolescent-aged romaine and butter lettuce and cilantro I planted towards the end of summer.

They are all ok right now, but we have some nights ahead dipping below freezing, the lowest 23. I cover them with sheets on the below 32 nights, and I’ve mulched around them heavily.

But I don’t know when to quit all this and just harvest them all. The lettuces are growing slowly, but the cilantro and chard are surprisingly growing well.

note to self - plant Swiss chard next year - it grew great in all temperatures and freezes well!