We had a night down in the broken 20s , and the gardens are demonstrate it .
So far , the $ 239 greenhouse has kept alive the tropicals inside it .
I took these pic when the weather condition was still in the lowly 20 and the frost was on the ground . The commingle - up garden area was frosty :
And the ice crystals sparkled on the edge of the wintertime rye .
The strawberry have been trying to bloom , but the freeze keep ending that idea . Before this hard frost , we harvested all we could from the wrangle gardens – and it was a effective affair , too .
The cabbages can take some stale , but not this much .
We ’re likely just to get rotted heads from these . luckily , we did get a decent harvest already , considering the time of year .
I expect a long , cool winter . When I plant in evenfall , I did n’t really think we would get much during the wintertime ; or else , I expected most everything to extend through and really start bearing in March like it did last yr . Instead , we got a long stretch of warm weather condition , watch by this brutal ( for the region ) overnight low .
I expect to lose the warm - weather stuff , so I chop and dropped and mulch a few weeks ago .
I do n’t know how the Brussels sprouts will do .
They take a farseeing time and I am rarely successful with them .
The rutabagas , on the other hand , look much better – it appears the frost did n’t even touch them , as of this morning . They were cut across with frost on Sunday morning !
This is my first time arise Swedish turnip . Other than dreadful germination rates , they ’ve grown very well .
Maybe this frost will finally make the apple dangle their leaves .
The Grocery Row Gardens are well and truly done for the yr .
That ’s a far cry from back in summertime , when they await like this :
It ’ll be back , though . We just need to be patient .
My older neighbor down the route told me that when we get a long , warm drop and the common cold does n’t get started until January or so , we can require a cold , previous spring . “ Some of the bad freezes have been in March , ” he told me .
So we ’ll expect . Last yr I come out planting potatoes at the oddment of January . adjudicate by the weather right now , we should probably wait until February this class .
Live and learn . I am joyfully watching the interchange season and learning to roll with them again .
While the earth remains , Seedtime and harvest home , Cold and rut , Winter and summer , And day and nightShall not lay off .
-Genesis 8:22
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