Phaedrine Stonebridge wrote:

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(Pat Kiewicz) wrote:

Ross Reid said:

We're almost due North of Erie, PA.
Heavy frost here last night. Matter of fact, it's now 9:15 AM and the
grass is still white where it's in the shade. I'm afraid it's curtains
for the tomatoes and eggplant that were still left in the garden.

Sorry to hear it. Here in Zone 6 southern Ontario, it's 40 F at the moment,
but I know that frost is coming. Some of the tips on my tomatoes look at bit
nipped. I'm just crossing my fingers that I get to them before the big one
hits. Such a short season. Hardly got any tomatillos, which is very
disappointing. Last year I had 'ice raspberies' on October 24th. Looks like
it'll be way earlier this year. Sigh.

I pulled all my ripest squash yesterday. There is a chance of a freeze
overnight tonight -- with no warm weather to follow any time soon.

Oh well. Going to prep a bed for garlic this weekend.

Me too. Try to dig out all that horseradish that came back from last year. I
did not know until just recently how invasive it is. They should put a
warning on the label!

I just did the same today.... maybe an early frost tonight here as well.
I picked nearly ten pounds of the zuchetta trombonici or however you
spell that lol. We only planted them in August and never dreamed they'd
do this well. So I will be making a nice batch of zucchini pickles in
the AM as well as shredding & freezing the last of my Raven hybrids.

I'm freezing sack of san marzanos and assorted green tomatoes now. Going to
make a cayenne pepper tincture using vodka as a solvent. I want to see how
it'll work as instant heat in soups, stews and such.

I also picked nearly another bushel of chiles and sweet peppers. LOL...
I think maybe next year I may plant a few less. My freezer is bursting
with them already. There were also ten small eggplants with tons more
little ones on the plants. Tons of green tomatoes which we really do
not care for pickled (yet anyway).

We make a tasty green tomato/sweet pepper relish that's great on hot dogs
and hamburgers. It's from an old canning and preserving book with lots of
farm recipes. But even still, I'll be giving alot of green tomatoes away
(not an easy thing to do) and composting the rest. Sigh.

There were only a few black-eye peas
left and the limas were few with tons of beautiful foliage--- hmmmmm.

Sad.

That should not have happened.

Nature's not fair!

We also feasted on the last of the
raspberries which are still going strong. The parsnips and carrots are
still going strong.

And speaking of garlic, we like to spread ours around the various
planting beds of flowers as another deer deterrant.

I wish it deterred squirrels.

Ether