[Diana in Wisconsin]

Thanks for the pix of your set-up, Mom. If you can keep the temperature around 50-55, and some air circulation, you should be golden. :)

Those orange tomatoes sure look like ‘Chef’s Choice Orange’ to me. I’ve grown them every year for probably 10 years, now. Everything in the ‘Chef’s Choice’ line is awesome!

Jung’s carries them and it’s also available in their ‘Totally Tomatoes’ catalog or on-line.

[MomwithHope]

They are a weird cross. I think between a genovese and a golden jubilee that I grew last year and saved the seeds from. They were labeled as such but the plant bore these huge orange ones. Not that I am complaining.

[Pete from Shawnee Mission]

Ecclesiastes 11:6: Sow your seed in the morning, and do not rest your hands in the evening, for you do not know which will succeed, whether this or that, or if both will equally prosper.

Based the Solomonic direction, I set out late plantings of tomato Hybrid Picus, VFFNAStTswv 79 Days, and Double Yield Cucumber, 52 days, a late season crap shoot, but worth a shot given the extended Indian Summers we have here. At this time I have harvest-able green tomatoes that will ripen inside and female cucumbers with flowers that I will need to hand pollinate. (Not seeing any pollinators flying around, just a few cucumber beetles.)

We have a freeze warning tonight. I covered the cucumbers and determinate tomatoes. If I get through the next two nights I might have 2 weeks more of reasonably warm weather. We will see if either of these plantings prosper!

The okra will expire in tonight's frost. Other than these cold sensitive plants I have broccoli and brussel sprounts, radish and turnips, some grudging kale and some collards. I will need to dig up the horseradish. I think these will all be fine.

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Someone with an interesting site devoted to soil fauna (Small bugs in the soil) and their importance to breaking down plants and producing soil!

https://www.chaosofdelight.org/

I found it when I was looking up Symphylans. I pulled up my 3 remaining zucchini plants today and symphylans were all over the stem buried in the soil. They had destroyed the roots which I think explains why I never, for the entire summer, had a zucchini larger than a finger. I will have to figure out how to deal with this before next year.