Petee Posted September 30, 2008 Share Posted September 30, 2008 Our area will be getting it's first serious frost in the next day or so, so start getting your tender plants back into the house or a protective garage. I take mine to the picnic table under the deck roof and right outside of the back door. They get treated for insects, cleaned up (check the bottoms for spiders and earwigs), trimmed and washed. Then they come in when the first frost appears. It"s sad but it's fun too to see how much they grew through the summer. I have a Hibiscus tree that never goes out (fewer bugs) and now it flowers through the winter and just grows during the summer. It's so nice to get up in the morning and count how many flowers are budding that day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest snellma Posted September 30, 2008 Share Posted September 30, 2008 Sorry you guys are expecting your first frost. I am expecting beans and squash soon from my second planting. I planted some butternut squash for the first time. They are coming along a lot slower so hopefully I will be able to get something off of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted September 30, 2008 Share Posted September 30, 2008 Sorry you guys are expecting your first frost. I'm looking forward to it. Fall is the best time of the year and I really do not mind winter. Hope we have a lot of snow this winter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted September 30, 2008 Share Posted September 30, 2008 me 2 !!!!!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bon Posted September 30, 2008 Share Posted September 30, 2008 I hope it kills off all the goldenrod!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mosha Posted September 30, 2008 Share Posted September 30, 2008 Global warming can't happen fast enough for me...need more of Snellma's climate. A winter with no snow plowing, icy roads etc. would be just great! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eastman Posted September 30, 2008 Share Posted September 30, 2008 Frost?...When?...lowest low I see in the 10 day forecast is 36 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lavender Posted October 1, 2008 Share Posted October 1, 2008 Frost?...When?...lowest low I see in the 10 day forecast is 36 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Petee Posted October 1, 2008 Author Share Posted October 1, 2008 Channel 10 news has been pushing the frost info but with all the cloud cover for the next few days we may yet escape for a while. I think the latest frost I can remember was Oct 10. Hasn't this been a nice fall so far? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VikingPrincess Posted October 2, 2008 Share Posted October 2, 2008 Sorry you guys are expecting your first frost. I am expecting beans and squash soon from my second planting. Hmmm. How 'bout we all go down to SC and beat up snellma?! ;D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Petee Posted October 2, 2008 Author Share Posted October 2, 2008 Better yet. let's go raid her garden. :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tipcat Posted October 2, 2008 Share Posted October 2, 2008 Better yet. let's go raid her garden. :-) Sounds like a good idea to me. I need more green beans. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest snellma Posted October 2, 2008 Share Posted October 2, 2008 Come on down - I'll share. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lavender Posted October 2, 2008 Share Posted October 2, 2008 Hey, VP, you don't want to beat up Snellma! She's a nice person. If the raping and pillaging urges get too bad, I know a couple of people you can beat up for the betterment of society. I might even help! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lavender Posted October 3, 2008 Share Posted October 3, 2008 Unless we get the rain they are predicting (they haven't changed the forecast that Eastman posted) and it clouds over Grandpa says to go pick the rest of your tomatoes. He is expecting a frost. Grandpa tends to be right on these things. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jettavwdrvr Posted October 5, 2008 Share Posted October 5, 2008 Sorry you guys are expecting your first frost. I am expecting beans and squash soon from my second planting. I planted some butternut squash for the first time. They are coming along a lot slower so hopefully I will be able to get something off of them. When do you harvest butternut squash? That's one of my favorite vegetables. You can make so many great fall recipes with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eastman Posted October 5, 2008 Share Posted October 5, 2008 28 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lavender Posted October 5, 2008 Share Posted October 5, 2008 When do you harvest butternut squash? That's one of my favorite vegetables. You can make so many great fall recipes with it. We got ours in yesterday. I leave them on as long as I can so they are good and hard. I've found that a light frost doesn't hurt them but I wouldn't want to let them out in a heavy freeze. They keep best at regular basement temperatures. The year I put them in the colder fruit cellar they didn't do too well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Guest snellma Posted October 6, 2008 Share Posted October 6, 2008 When do you harvest butternut squash? That's one of my favorite vegetables. You can make so many great fall recipes with it. My mom and dad used to grow them but I never paid attention to when they picked them. I have 2 plants that grew so hopefully I will get something off of them. I just picked my first batch of beans yesterday so we had them with our chicken I did on the grill. They were so yummy!!! If we soon don't get some rain I am going to have to water the garden as my yellow squash are looking a little wilty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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