GA: First frost hit within the last few days (not in yard yet)

Saw today that first frost hit at GA, whereas it hadn't hit when I was last there a few days ago.  

The yard hasn't had its first frost yet.

SO MUCH RAIN over the past week -- multiple days of lots of rain

The peppers are not looking great.  Nothing else seems to be suffering too much, but still waiting the garden to look like everything has taken off.  Broc/caul/kale/chard doing great, and potatoes also look fabulous.

First frost in yard (GA had first frost quite a while ago)

Last night went down to -5 and now the tuberous begonia is a begoner, so this was the first true frost in the yard.

No frost in yard yet

So far the cherry tomato plant and a couple of zukes are still going, not hit by frost in the yard yet.

GA: First frost!! Many tenders perished! (no frost in yard)

The first frost happened the night of either Friday Sep 19th or Saturday Sep 20th, as noticed when I went to the garden on Sunday Sep 21st.  Most little buckwheat seedlings kaput, as well as most zukes, peppers, etc.

The yard is fine -- no frost there yet.

GA: Using frost cover with clothespins worked well to give some shade to recent transplants

This actually worked quite well and everything stayed on despite crazy wind today.

For some of the groupings of peppers and tomatoes, I wrapped a piece of frost cover (the opaque stuff) around the groupings, using clothespins to anchor them to the tomato cages or support sticks.  Didn't cover the top, just aimed to give most protection to the south side and west side.

Removed them today since the two days of blazing sun are over.  Then used those frost covers as some of the temporary zuke/squash covers.

GA: Tomato "victim" for experiment! (cool nights coming up, and not yet sun-hardened)

Decided to throw caution to the wind and do an experiment by planting one tomato at GA now rather than waiting until the end of cool nights and before finishing the sun-hardening.

So, at the south-most edge, planted a Damsel.  Dug as deep as I could with the spade because the tomatoes are so dang tall.  Then sprinkled the usual (mrp, kelp, az, alfalfa) along with a few leaves.  Watered it, covered it more, added a few more of the amendments, then covered it the rest of the way.  The only babying I did was to tie it to the pole to help with wind support.

Several cool nights are coming up, the coldest being 8 degrees based on the forecast today.  Tomorrow will be full sun -- whereas the only sun hardening it's had so far is basically today with ~1 hour of morning sun!

So -- this will be a fun experiment to see what happens!

I'll probably try planting a pepper plant too for the same experimental purpose.

GA: Cold crops all planted! Took 2.5 days. Now to wait for warmer weather to start the warmer crops.

Bad weather -- delayed in starting to harden off -- no room left under lights!!

Argh, the three main shelves are completely full so I desperately want to start hardening things off so that there will be space next week when the next batch of seed-starting is due.

I'm hopeful that the weather will cooperate this week, to get started.  But first, I want to finish placing the chicken wire, to hopefully be sure that the local rabbit(s) can't come in and have a feast!

First hard/killing frost in the yard last night

The massive volunteer cherry tomato by the hydro meter is mostly kaput now, along with any other remaining tenders.

Yard hasn't been hit by frost yet, though car windows frosty this morning

^^^

GA: Hard frost hit this week; removed everything except the hardies

As of now, the only things left at GA:

- beets

- carrots

- lettuce

- leeks

- chard

I think that's it.

GA: Big planting-out day -- part 1 (to be continued tomorrow)

The cool nights (<~12) seem to be over now, so planted out a bunch of things today.  Ran out of time, so will do the rest tomorrow.

Tonight these went in:

- Tomatoes (Damsel, Mortgate Lifter, Beefsteak, Big Beef Plus) (~10 plants)

- Ground cherries (~11 plants)

- Peppers (The ones I started at home, and the ones I bought at the store)

- Summer squash part one (more to be done tomorrow)

- Basil

Last carrots and beets harvested (have been several heavy frosts)

There have been several heavy frosts in recent weeks, so I harvested the rest of the carrots and beets.

I tried a carrot and can't say it seems any sweeter than the ones harvested through the summer.  Haven't had one of these beets yet.

But anyway, a very decent harvest of carrots and beets, though ~15% of the carrots seem to have had some kind of insect damage, so I'll have those carrots first.

Stevia is still going strong despite several frosts!!!

Wow!  I thought it was a really tender plant, but apparently not!  They look perfectly fine, whereas the basil, tomatoes, beans, and begonia are all clearly kaput given the frosts.

First frost was last night

It has been a mild fall until now -- got some cooler nights at the 0 +1 range, but no frost in the yard until last night when it went down to -4.  The tenders are now done.  --> Edited to add that actually the stevias are still looking fine even after several cold nights!!

Basil transplanted; nights hovering around 11 to 13, so will cover basil when sub-12

I just felt like it was time to get them out of the little pots and into the ground.

Going down to +7 tonight (covering peppers only); this week will be +10 to +11 at night, so not transplanting basil yet

Put pots over the yard peppers (not the allotment peppers) but not doing anything else.

Big planting day!! Only remaining are the zukes, cukes, zinnias, and basil

The 14 day weather forecast looks good, with nights no colder than 10 (fingers crossed) and days in the 20s.  So, planted a bunch of stuff that was finished hardening:  tomatoes (several Mortgage Lifter (which were my best-looking seedlings, nice and sturdy), Big Tofu Plus (leggy seedlings), and one Jasper (leggy seedling)), stevia (in-ground and in pots), store-bought peppers (jalapeno in a pot; hot banana pepper in-ground; and several sweet banana peppers in-ground and in pots) callaloo, and coreopsis.

And, sowed pre-soaked pole bean seeds:  Scarlet Emperor (beautiful big beans) northmost (south of the peas); Kentucky Wonder Wax (brown seeds) southmost.  Covered with clear plastic after watering.

Now I have to finish hardening the zukes and cukes; and wait for more zinnias to flower so I know which colours they are; and I need to start hardening the basil, no rush there since nights are still too cool for them.

Up-potted tomatoes bec were looking sickly in small pots

Yikes, I really should have uppotted them sooner, but was lazy and hoped they could hold off... Then the forecast showed some really cool nights in early June so I thought I may need to delay transplanting until then -- though now the forecast is changed back to ok, so I'll likely go ahead and transplant everything this weekend.  But anyway transplanted, with a boost of kelp, azomite, and mrp (and scant alfafa).