Happy Harvest Blog
Double trouble
Occupied. They were just hanging out, prepared to stay for the long haul. This is not a problem I was expecting to have: The squashes swarmed the fence, and the frost revealed the bounty. Stuck to the fence. The frost wiped out the morning glories, too, and the zinnias. Inky and Velvet are so beautiful (and so sweet). Inky still insists (very, very determined) on going to bed in the tree, but she might give a little chicken hug (neck snuggle) when you move her.
Serious frost
We got a proper frost last night. I ate a tomato and it had ice crystals in it (unpleasantly cold first thing in the morning), so lots of tomatoes are frozen on the vine in the greenhouse. I think the cucumber and melon vines are finished too. The basil is finished. I worked all day yesterday to prepare for the frost, so it wasn't a surprise, except I thought the basil would be ok. Mom, it's cold! She's in her full polar bear.
Seedling disaster
If this happens to anybody else, that you think your tomato seedlings might have frozen in the night, although they look ok in the early morning, supposedly if you splash them with water or dunk them before they are thawed by the warming day, they may survive!
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