Wish I'd been able to turn everything under, but ra(i)n out of time.
No more digging until next year.
I started this "thought" in the Coffee thread but since Zeedman is on a similar path, I'll comment more on it here
. First, I can say that I mowed the lawn today. So much wind, 35 mph gusts thru the day and 50+mph overnight -- the grass was dry and there was all this tree
debris on the lawn. It was last mowed about 3 weeks ago. Finishing up all outdoor work, it began to hail ... briefly, perhaps it was just the clouds' frustration with seeing me out there doing "Summer" work
.
"Officially," yesterday, I guess that we had 3" of snow. ... Now, the temperatures will be dropping into the teens every morning so the garden soil will go from soggy to frozen. It's gonna be too much for the rear-tine tiller. ...
@Manda_Rae was saying her garden looked Winter sad. should see mine ... no, i take that back!
Okay, here is that garden on a Spring day a few years ago. The tractor guy had finished with it and I had just started
.
You should know that the ground where I am standing with the camera was sold and I no longer garden there. The 30' by 200" plot across the little stretch of lawn was still my garden in 2022.
Now, for two
2022 pictures from the backyard here at home. The first, the potted tomatoes after yesterday's little snow storm.
And, here are those plants this afternoon.
Not too clear (I must have been shivering a little from the wind & cold) but the plants are STILL ALIVE. There's some damage but this might be the first time that my tomatoes have been through a snow storm
before frost killed them! They are protected in that location and bunched up so much that they protect each other. Additionally, those plants probably just thought to themselves, "Oh, more of the same." It has been near freezing again and again in their location.
Steve
who also brought the tiller out of the back of the pickup and put it away .
