We’ve been ‘frosty’ the past few over-nights. October 15th is usually our first freeze of the year and it was right on time.
We harvested what remained of the apples and winter squashes, so I’m dealing with them through the weekend. :)
Apple Pie, here I come! Yay! :)
Today’s Gardening Thought:
“It is not graceful and it makes one hot, but it is a blessed sort of work, and if Eve had had a spade in Paradise and known what to do with it, we should not have had all that sad business of the apple.” ~ Countess Elizabeth Von Arnim
Hope there is not too much left before the first snow! Pretty soon now, sometime in early November?? The first snow is always magic and beautiful, anything after that, not so much...
We actually survived what was supposed to be a “end of growing season freeze”. NWS recorded a low of 34 deg. F instead of the predicted 30 deg. F. But we never got below 36-37 deg. I’d covered a lot of plants, but even the uncovered Zinnias in the open in the front yard survived. I believe the fog that developed (both nights) must have been the savior. (Small “s”!)
I actually e-mailed our NWS Office the early evening of the 1st predicted freeze night: They always declare these the “end of the growing season”, not taking into account I suspect that there are a lot of gardeners* who move at least plants in and out (or cover them) until it just gets ridiculous to do so, sometime in mid-November, usually, for us. (Zone 7A) But I’ve kept tomatoes producing at least a few fruits until Thanksgiving one or two years!
*Lots more gardeners than farmers, tho’ of course the acreage and $$ are vastly bigger for the farmers!