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Been so busy with the domain move, but am finally catching up. Last week Wednesday it froze and we lost most okra in our 3 sisters bed and the eggplant and amaranth in the lower garden.<\/p>\n

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10\/27\/11: frozen okra and Mexican sunflowers<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n

A few other plants also had some slight frost damage. It’s strange that it takes a while until you can see that plants froze. In the morning it looked like everything was ok.<\/p>\n

Fortunately we’ve been covering one garden bed and our north raised bed with blankets. In the lower garden I covered our best tomato plants with straw.\u00a0 But despite all these efforts, I doubt that we’ll get any tomatillos worth eating.\u00a0 Next year they’ll be in the hoophouse since this is the 2nd year the growing season was just too short.<\/p>\n

Quite a few more tomatoes ripened in the last week, but with the forecast for temps down to the mid twenties, I decided to harvest all the outdoor tomatoes today. I got over 6 lbs in the lower garden and over 5 lbs in our upper garden. I’m going to try fried green tomatoes.<\/p>\n

The greenhouse is still going strong and I sure wish I could keep it above freezing through the winter. The tomatoes are still doing fantastic, but the Armenian cucumbers stopped flowering and growing a couple of weeks ago.<\/p>\n

Last year we had the first hard frost in October, so it could have been worse. But in the 7 years I lived in LMC I had my tomatoes going till Thanksgiving. Hopefully this winter won’t be as cold as last year when it got down to 9 degrees over Thanksgiving and again in December and to 4 degrees in January.\u00a0\u00a0 We’re in Unit 7 at about 4000 ft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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