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The past three nights here have been 'frost advisories'.  Not the more dire 
'frost warning' but could have been bad news.  I am at a high elevation but 
the 
gardens are, if anything, in an anti-frost pocket.

But we dodged the bullet.  That means one more big crop of strawberries from 
the day-neutral patch.  I was fretting over my beds of winter squash that are 
double fist sized but still not mature.  Still an iffy proposition but the 
prosects are looking up.

It will mean another flush of tomatoes and the ancho peppers that go into 
tonight's chilis rellenos won't necessarily be the last.  The racoons 
relieved me 
of one small patch of late sweet corn but now there are four more that just 
might make it.  

We had the last of the summer cabbage last night and the first patches of 
winter cabbage are just now starting to fold their leaves to head.  I've been 
weeding out the annual weeds from the winter carrots, but just as soon as the 
first frost arrives in earnest, those frost tender weeds will succumb but the 
carrots won't.  

Beds of lettuce, tsa-tsoi, kale, kolrhabi, and other seedlings are looking 
good and will stay there until the next round of rain ... supposed to be 
Thursday but we long since quit holding our breath.

All in all, not a bumper crop year but we did OK.  If we had this and nothing 
else, we would not starve.

James   </HTML>