[greeneyes]

Greetings. Another sunny Mo. day, with rather cool temps. Freeze is on the way tonight again. Garlic is planted. Dug up the rose gold potatoes. Still need to dig up the Yukon gold - should have already done it.

Hubby is working a little every day on the green house. Slow going. I'm ready to move stuff into it ASAP. LOL

Have a great weekend. Prayers up for all. God Bless.

[greeneyes]

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Well, it’s really winter now....so cold and windy...and I haven’t put the bike away for hibernation yet. Now I may have lost my window of opportunity and will probably have to have it picked up and TRAILORED to my brother’s garage (oh the shame!)

[ETL]

Not mine. I live in an apartment in NYC.

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[Ciexyz]

Arctic blast weather in western PA. The Boston fern on my patio is half browned out. I have no room to bring it inside. If I can keep the plants good to the end of October, I’m happy. After that, I don’t take extraordinary measures to save them.

[Qiviut]

My garden was still going fairly well with tomatoes, eggplant, jalapenos (finally! they started slow) & Hungarian Wax Peppers. Last night the forecast was for a freeze (20's). In looking at my options last week, the only day of good weather was Monday with the rest of the week rain/50's. Monday I spent ALL day in the garden - took down the fences, picked everything, pulled out all the plants, weeded the raised beds, & distributed the decomposing straw bales from the straw bale garden among the raised beds. The only steps left are to mix in the compost & cover the beds so I don't get weeds by next spring. It was a long, exhausting day, but one that was highly satisfying.

Now, the issue is doing something productive with what I picked. This morning, the jalapenos will be made into Sweet Jalapeno Relish & canned. The green tomatoes are gradually ripening so we can keep up with eating those. The 24 eggplants are a different story - I have a bunch of recipes to try, but not sure I can use them all up. They'll keep a while so maybe I can get through most of them.

Here's a picture of what came out of the garden Monday and my new "best friend" for helping with the garden - it's a Gorilla Cart. Holds 1,200 lbs (that's a LOT of tomatoes - ha ha), it dumps & the handle can be easily modified so the cart can be pulled behind the lawn tractor. So far, I'm really loving it.

BTW, it was 26 degrees around 8 this morning - I'm sure the overnight low was colder. Last night, the wind was really blowing - the branches moving were making the motion lights come on. I just happened to look out at one point & what did I see scurrying across the front sidewalk? FOUR raccoons ..... I foresee 'trouble' in the future!

[MightyMama]

We just got a cold snap down here, so the only thing left for me to do is finish harvesting lamb’s quarter seeds before the sparrows beat me to it. October was so mild that I counted northwards of 25 volunteer tomato seedlings in the front yard, where the mockingbirds gather to congratulate themselves on tomato thievery. If there’s more in the spring, the yard guy can just DEAL. :)