Well if the weather guesser is right (garden)

old · Oct 25, 2012

Well NOAA is calling for temps to be down at 33 tonight which means good chance of frost. So I went out in the light rain and picked most of what I had left which where peppers and a few tomato's. Picked around 7-8 lbs of Jalapeno peppers and will be doing sweet jalapeno slices in the next few days. I also picked around 5-6 lbs of sweet banana peppers which some will go in the sweet jalapeno slices and what is left will be frozen. Still have a lot of real small jalapeno peppers on the plants but will eave them till I know the frost has got them for sure and then can them whole

glennster · Oct 25, 2012

rich, we had a couple frosts already up here, lost a lot of tomatoes that hadnt ripened yet. i did get quite a load of hot peppers that were in the secret hot pepper garden by the timber. dont think the frost was as hard there.sunday got half a 5 gallon pail of habaneros, scotch bonnets, tai hots, cayenne, poblano, and carribean reds. i cant eat em, but i like growing em. give them to lots of friends that like em. next year i was thinking about growing those ghost peppers woo-hoo super hot!!!

Kenneth R Ohnstad · Oct 25, 2012

What area? It's supposed to get to 28F around here in NW WI
good luck
k

glennster · Oct 25, 2012

rich is in missouri near the ozarks, i'm i north central illinois

old · Oct 25, 2012

I live in Missouri the Lake of the Ozarks area. We have had a couple of frost but I saved part of the garden then by running a sprinkler all night but could not save it all. Figure it is late enough to just give up on the warm weather stuff. Still have th8ings like radish etc growing and will for a good long time yet since most are in cold frames

old · Oct 25, 2012

I can lot of jalapeno jelly and jalapeno sweet slices which are very good. The jelly has the taste of the jalapeno but not the hot and the sweet slices have a bit of a bite but not as hot as the pepper alone. Have some cayenne peppers also and I dry them for cooking. Did grow some habanero's this year for the son and the earlier frost got them so I picked what was left and dried them for him

Dick2 · Oct 25, 2012

It got down to 52 in the desert last night; I had to dress up with winter jacket to take a walk. Nobody else was out walking in those temps.

Mike (WA) · Oct 25, 2012

At some point, you just kind of give up on the garden, even if it hasn't frozen out. I covered the tomatoes for a couple of light frosts, but now the daytime temps are not high enough to help them ripen much, so they're sour, not sweet. Think I'm going to do one last picking and throw in the towel for the year.

About all we've got left is tomatoes and Swiss chard (like spinach, but actually tastes good). Its great saute-ed. SWMBO whippped up a stir fry with chard, Italian sausage, tomatoes and riggatoni the other night- good eatin'. She has a knack for knowing what to put in stuff to make it good. I think its called "being a good cook".

fixerupper · Oct 25, 2012

Our lettuce froze off quite awhile ago and then it came back up but we plowed the garden before it had much of a chance. Jim

Fergienewbee · Oct 25, 2012

Try rainbow chard. Adds lots of color to the garden and to the stuff mixed with.

Larry

ASEguy · Oct 25, 2012

I find the fall vegetables are usually better with the exception of tomatoes.

JayinNY · Oct 25, 2012

52??? We still were t shirts when it's 52! Lol, what do u do when it's 2?? Or don't it get that cold there?? I thought some desert areas get pretty cold!

MSD · Oct 25, 2012

We woke up to a couple inches of snow this morning here in SE SD.

chevytaHOE5674 · Oct 26, 2012

Had a killing frost around the first week of September UP here and had snow in the middle of September. All that's left of our garden is dried corn stalks that need to be chopped up and then it needs to be plowed under.

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