What did you do in the garden today?

[TJAnonymous]

I do the same thing and my neighbor thinks I'm crazy! Our windows push out to the side and she's a bored retired lady. She called my yesterday afternoon "yall ok your windows are open! You might get sick" haha no no we are from the cold places(midwest and eat coast) we will be ok

It is completely nonsensical to me why someone would choose air conditioning over fresh, cool air.... Unless you live next to an open vat sewer or paper manufacturing plant.

 

[TJAnonymous]

We got frost!! I'm doing research on my own, but figured I might get a quicker answer here. Are my tomatoes, pumpkins, butternut squashes, summer squashes, and peppers lost to me? Is there a way to save them? I can't spray them with water because my hose decided to freeze....

Tomatoes and peppers - not likely. Squashes are a maybe. If your hose froze, it sounds like a pretty hard frost. I'm betting the squash may die too

 

[TJAnonymous]

I don't have any Kona right now but DO have some Lbs of the eth blueberry left, i got a few seasons but as it get older it's not as potent but it shows how it varies over the year. Kona and chocolate, hmmm.. Kona has it's own inique flavor. THe Centrals coming in now THERE is where the chocolate is. I have an El Salvador that is just YUM !!

Aaron

I have 2 lbs of chocolate covered kona beans in my house at the moment. That will last me a long time. I love them! But I only eat a couple every once in a while. I have milk chocolate, dark chocolate, cappuccino chocolate, white chocolate, and raspberry chocolate. So delicious....

 

[Swiss]

If the frost is mild your squashes should be ok, they regrow new leaves fast anyways, the tomaters not so sure. Worse case leave the fruits on the vine as it withers down and see if you can get a few extra days of ripening on them.

Frost sneaks like that, when we get early season or last minute frost, everything seems fine then bing in about a 5 minute period it just zip everything ffreezes. the main thing is how long the frost was on them and how badly the leaf got frozen, which will killit

aaron

I will let the sun thaw it, and assess once the damage starts to reveal itself. It got down to 31°, so, we shall see. Maybe they're close enough together that they insulated each other? Or at least, that's what I am hoping....

 

[Ascholten]

Here is a great place to get coffee, chocolates and other goodies from Hawaii.

https://www.coffeeofkona.com/

If you do order, mention that Aaron from GCBC sent you and she might give you a discount.

aaron

WARNING: The Macadamia Nuts are extremely addicting and WILL ruin diets !!

 

[WthrLady]

Rained overnight. a whopping .09 that doesn't even count
cloudy cool and humid this morning
I'll be doing more tomatoes this morning.

Judy the orphaned pullet is being taken home by a friend down at the dog trials. She has a group of pullets from about the same hatch time so Judy will have a family group. She wouldn't have one here at all.

If the winds behave the next few days, I'll mask up and clean the workshop with the leaf blower.

Nothing going on in the garden. It's waiting for me to call an end to the season.

 

[WthrLady]

Tomatoes and peppers do NOT like below 40.
Squash fruit can handle the frost if it wasn't too long.
None of the plants (besides pansies and bulbing plants) appreciate a freeze, but it does depend on how LONG it was too.
Sounds like the season is over up there.

 

[WthrLady]

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I think so, lol. Definitely has a horn. Bit on the small side though.

I have NEVER seen them in mass though.
That is a sphinx moth worm. Wonder if someone spilled a shipping container of them. They lay eggs onsey twosey and on the plants they eat. UNLIKE tent caterpillars, which lay a mass of eggs.

 

[Swiss]

Tomatoes and peppers - not likely. Squashes are a maybe. If your hose froze, it sounds like a pretty hard frost. I'm betting the squash may die too

Tomatoes and peppers do NOT like below 40.
Squash fruit can handle the frost if it wasn't too long.
None of the plants (besides pansies and bulbing plants) appreciate a freeze, but it does depend on how LONG it was too.
Sounds like the season is over up there.

I was able to get my hose in a patch of sunlight and thawed before the sun reached my garden. Do, I was able to spray everything. It was apparently long enough that the squash fruits froze... I'm not so concerned about the plants, but I am about the fruits... do I need to pull everything and bring it in for processing/curing? I have never had to deal with a surprise frost, and it's really throwing me off because I am growing things I've never grown before and don't quite know what to do with them (pumpkins, potatoes, butternut squash, peppers, corn).

 

[Fishychix]

The biggest place I struggle with sugar is my iced coffee. The place I go puts lots of caramel syrup in it. It's sooooooo good. I'd be so disappointed if I couldn't drink it.

Just ask for one less pump next time. You can still have it, just not as sweet.