Derald wrote:
songbird wrote:

cold and windy tomorrow.
will hope y'all don't get too frozen by this blast. we
were planning on going out tomorrow, but i think i'll stick
close to home and enjoy a good fat book and this pile of
blankets here in the roost.

Yep; staying warm. Plenty of firewood on hand, although, not in
the variety I'd prefer. Maybe next year.... Garden doing well. 27°(F)
for about an hour-and-a-half in the small hours of 23 Jan. That was our
first frost, really light, no ice. Wife picked the few peas that were
ready, just in case; needlessly, it turned out. Much warmer now but
wet: Late night sprinkling of rain and then morning fog. Good day in
which to prep a small space in which to transplant some collards that
need some elbow room and to replace some volunteer deer's tongue
seedlings with lettuce.

glad you made it through the first blast ok, i sure
hope this latest doesn't wind it's way down there.
i miss the little fellers here, i.e. pea plants, they
just seem to be rather cheerful plants to me.


Garden first-timers this fall are bok choy, celery, broccoli raab
(rappini), two additional varieties of carrots, and one of lettuce.
Don't know what to expect from any of the first three. Will continue to
succession plant them, possibly as late as April or May.

if the raab is anything like the plant i had growing here
that was leaves/stems and nothing else, it grew great, got
to be as large as the neighboring soybean plants, but i had
no idea what it was, and then the aphids decended upon it
and i finally gave up and removed it.


songbird