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  • From: Clansgian AT wmconnect.com
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [Homestead] Dodged the Bullet
  • Date: Sun, 5 Oct 2008 11:33:16 EDT

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>




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