Greetings fellow gardeners, well all good things must come to an end. Wednesday morning Mother nature teased us with a slight frost. Thursday morning, she hit hard with a killer. All the summer plants were hit by the frost. I was able to glean as many peppers as I could, but the remaining string beans and lima beans are done for the year. Eggplant also was killed back. Cabbage is still good. Cabbage can withstand even a heavy freeze. From here on in until Thanksgiving we clean up the garden and put it to sleep for the winter. Plants need to be pulled, tomato cages stacked and cleaned and last the plastic and drip lines pulled up. When that is all done. I will start my compost chopping. Chopping up all the pulled plants into compost. Then I will chop up the leaves from the church grove to be used all next summer for more composting. Still a lot of work to do until closing.
Thank you to all of our volunteers who show up each Saturday to help make this mission as successful as it is.
Thank you to all of our volunteers who show up each Saturday to help make this mission as successful as it is.
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