Today's Weather in Your Garden - 6

Arlene - from what I read, the cardboard caskets may be appropriate from this deadly plant. Thank goodness I plantfiled it!!!

Lousy weather day here - 34 with some flurries and wind. One of the few days all year I felt like staying inside.

Al - how did you spend your day indoors........with plant catalogues??? Or did you clean the whole house to surprise your DW????

Good move Louise. Finally getting cold in WI!

It was housework, laundry - dishes - manifesto.

I have a few hours of work outside to do yet, maybe tomorrow.

Manifesto is an Italian festival for men only.

antifesto's aren't much fun then right?

That's the opposite.

unclefesto?

I prefer Festivus for the Rest of Us!!

I could imagine 'the airing of the grievances' would be quite popular in Florida.

Some weather thread we're having!

I'm on a thread? - I thought I was still sleeping.

You are, but even sheets have a thread count.

Good one, Victor!

Al - yes, I'm working on the airing of the grievances as we speak! I plan to take a day trip over to Del Boca Vista and see how they fly!

48 overnight, daytime high mid 60's. It's a race between the first frost and the hundred or so un-ripened cherry tomatoes. We still are getting between a pint and a quart of ripe maters a day.

Compensation for having to put up with July and August out here.



Frank

Welcome Frank! Please check in with reports from time to time. Nice to hear from other parts of the country. What's your elevation?

Mine is about 6' if you want to know.

With or without heels?

I am a heel.

Hi there, Frank! What do you do with all of your tomatoes?? Glad you found us on the NE forum. As you can see, some of us come and go and some of us are northeast of the rest of us, so we really love newcomers! When do you generally get your first frost?

Frank - you could cover those tomatoes at night to keep them safe.

Echinacea, yarrow, roses, delphinium and one iris still blooming. Buds on four daylilies.
The 80 heads of lettuce are still going, too, but we do cover them at night.

Wow - you can feed the whole town, Pirl!

80 heads of lettuce?

Don't ask.

He started planting seed and used two packages. Yes, we're having lettuce for Thanksgiving Day.

That's sounding like a radical diet you're on!

Some Ghiardelli, too!

Temp 42.9, Wind WNW 0.0, Rh 46%, Baro 29.97, Dp 23.8

Not much change from the afternoon temps, quiet and still.

80 heads of lettuce... ☺

A chilly 28 on my morning walk, but clear skies, saw the last fading stars. High of 41 and sunny.

36! 40% chance of rain. I'll have to wait until Wednesday to get the last 21 dahlias dug.

Yes, WC, 80 heads = 40 heads per person here.

16 degrees this morning!! Eleanor

Ooh - chilly, Eleanor! 38 and overcast here. Still saying possible wet snow for later today.

44 now with only 3 MPH winds and very sunny. Definitely dahlia digging day! Big change in 2.5 hours!

Temp 43.5°, Wind NE 0.7mph, Rh 42%, Baro 30.14↑, Dp 22.0°

Completely overcast here.

- It would equal the same here pirl, that's why I buy a 'bone in' turkey breast for Thanksgiving instead of the whole turkey! I was just thinking of the logistics of growing that much lettuce. I've never grown one but I assume they require more water than most veggies. I'm guessing you didn't have a problem with rabbits/ insects. The only veggie I've grown has been Tomatoes, five plants gave me about 100 and it was just too many for us.
It would be interesting to find out what crop/ plants you can rotate that with. ie. what nutrient it removes and what nutrient it gives back to the soil...

DH adds 39 wheelbarrow loads of compost to the vegetable garden each spring so that replenishes anything removed, I'm sure.

Lettuce doesn't use more water than any other vegetable and doesn't take up much room. At this time of year only carrots are using any other space. All the pepper plants are ready for the landfill and the tomato plants have been gone for weeks along with the cucumbers and melons, etc.

haven't seen any precipitation yet (of the frozen or unfrozen kind), but Brrr.

Wow, you've got a farm! - good exercise! One of my family members has a turkey farm in Iowa but the microscopic plumage is eventually bad for the lungs they say. - better health wise to farm veggies!

Good exercise and good sleep.

Next weekend is the time to attack the asparagus plot. That's a big job.

Got up to about 40 with some sun so I worked outside a while.

Al - I was thinking of you as I dug the dahlias you sent that bloomed so beautifully. Thank you SO much!