Thursday, November 17, 2011

Usually our area has a nice long breezy fall, but this year, we are already in the 30s at night. Some days are still fall, and some times we even get a little leftover summer, but for some reason we are pogo-ing with winter. 

The first night the weather stations said there was to be frost we pulled all the edible sized tomatoes from the plants and then yanked all the potted plants in. *Horray for potted peppers!* 

That was about two weeks ago....and then the weather turned warmer again. So the tomato plant didn't stop producing.  I'm completely ok with this, but still feeling sorry for the weighted plants who are about to have a freeze tonight. So I'll be pulling more child palm sized tomatoes in hope we can warm them up to red in the house. 

Not long after my last post, I transplanted some carrot plants that had been sulking in the back yard beds. They seem to have enjoyed the odd weather and are steadily growing. I may have to pull them a bit early as well, but hopefully they had a chance to create some tasty young carrots. 

We have begun planning for next years growing season. As it stands we have 3 medium/large beds for planting. Two in a bit of dappled shade and the other which gets a decent amount of sun. Next year we plan on expanding to 8 beds so that we can plant more of what we know works, as well as a few new things.