For what it’s worth, the heat came on this morning.
The Foreguestimators have upped the ‘freeze watch’ to a ‘freeze warning’ and issued similar notifications for tomorrow night. That means visiting my minigarden plot for a mass harvest. There are quite a few peppers to grab (both sweet and jalapeno) and a few tomatoes to get inside to finish their color change. The tomatoes really did not do well this year (and getting pruned by bambi teeth didn’t help them much either.)
The radishes I can pull up since they have mostly gone to seed and are too woody now to consider them edible - I just haven’t done so yet because it was one of those things I could do ‘tomorrow’. They will make a nice addition to the compost pile. Then I need to assess my late planting of carrots and determine if there is anything there to harvest. When I planted them I knew a lot would depend on when that first killing freeze hit. I’d consider covering them at night but that doesn’t help much if the temps regularly dip to freezing and below. By Sunday they are projecting lows in the 20’s..
I lowered the storm windows in our bedroom before I came downstairs today. Still more to lower both up and downstairs. And of course since the heat came on now I really must trek to the basement and check the level in the oil tank.
Wonder how long before I have to call out the Olde Deere..
Good morning. The temperature reached 68 in the house last night, with windows open. What a pleasant change! I need to find out how to keep the furnace from coming on. With the old thermostat, you had to manually switch from a/c to heat, but this one is Smarter. Hopefully it’s smart enough to understand that I don’t want the furnace on, even though the temperature is 68.
A couple of nights ago, NOAA issued a hard freeze warning for the entire Wasatch Front, so there were massive parts of the state in blues, darker being colder. I had forgotten how cold it got in Utah Valley.
Now that I have the Payson Chronicle Online, I can get lots of cold news about my hometown.
We had the heat on last night. I’m not sure how cold it was purported to be outside the walls.
Oldasrocks plants frozen veggies, if that’s any help....