Rainfall
- twelfth: 0.55″
- 14th: 0.33″
- sixteenth: 0.01″
- twentieth: 0.31″
- Whole thus far: 1.2 inches
Temperature
- vary of nighttime lows: 38 to 59°F (3.5 to fifteen°C)
- vary of daytime highs: 59 to 84°F (15 to 29°C)
Climate Notes
About mid-month the mornings had been getting cool sufficient to change to my winter work schedule. Meaning I do my backyard and out of doors work within the afternoons. Mornings are indoors. That is once I used to do most of my writing, however now I principally weave and stitch (which I speak about on my other blog).
In line with the climate forecast, a chilly entrance will push by means of any time now. Our first frost seems extraordinarily probably after that.
Planted (all early within the month)
- carrots
- daikons
- turnips
- lettuce
- kale
- Egyptian strolling onions
It has been fairly dry, so lots of my seeds sit dormant within the floor. Possibly they’re going to make for an early spring backyard.
Transplanted
These are saplings I traded hopniss tubers for.
Harvested
- greens: kale, turnip, daikon
- turnips
- cherry tomatoes
- slicing tomatoes (which do not need to ripen)
- candy peppers
- first candy potato squash (the others are nonetheless greenish)
- pecans
- quince
| 1st quince |
Okra and inexperienced bean crops are fading however nonetheless handle to place out a number of. I am letting these dry to save lots of the seed for subsequent 12 months.
Salads, in fact.
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| Kale, Swiss chard, daikon greens, cherry tomatoes, inexperienced pepper, and aged goat feta. The dressing is a industrial chickpea dressing. It is tasty, so I need to experiment with making an attempt to make my very own. |
Issues to do earlier than first frost
- Harvest candy potatoes
- Harvest candy potato squash
- Convey my potted ginger indoors
- Strive potting certainly one of my inexperienced pepper crops once more this 12 months. Last year’s did not make it, however I did not have a superb place to retailer it. This 12 months, I’ve the greenhouse, so I am hoping for achievement.
Parting pictures
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| Not a lot fall colour this 12 months, however the forsythia bushes by no means disappoint. |
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| Noticed this little man on a leaf of certainly one of my potted chestnuts. |
