Rain, glorious rain! #grownostr
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Rain would definitely be appreciated. We actually got our first freeze last night. Luckily I keep all my tomatoes and peppers in pots and brought them inside yesterday. The weather forecast didn't predict a freeze, but we are in a river valley and sometimes the cold sinks into the valley and we get colder temperatures than in town. It's a good thing I trusted my intuition.
I just picked the rest of my green beans and cucumbers that were in decent condition today before they got totally wiped out by night freezes.
Freeze!!?? We are still very hot and muggy. The rain just quit, so it wasnt much😒
The only state with a shorter time between last freeze and first freeze is Alaska. The high was >80 F, but it went down to 29.9 F in the early hours this morning. Being dry, we can get huge swings between high and low.
This is why I always grow my tomatoes and peppers in pots. I can't get tomatoes (or at least any significant amount) before the first freeze. If I have them in pots, I can bring them in, produce for a couple months, then they get all leggy and produce little to no tomatoes, but when the days start lengthening, I get spring tomatoes. I start seeds and then replace the old tomatoes after a big flush.
I actually have twice had years when things went crazy and I've had tomatoes produce inside for 3 years even though they are supposed to be annuals. They will continue producing, but not as well as the first year.
Beautiful
Yeah!!!!
Nice!
