10-28-2025, 05:44 PM
(10-22-2025, 07:09 PM)wiperhunter2 Wrote: It's that time of the year for outside gardens to come to an end. We were not suppose to get a killing frost, Monday night but we got enough that it took out the last of our squash, our zucchini. Still got green beans, kale and brussel sprouts but I doubt we have much over a week for them, based of weather reports. Good to hear your stucco removal project is just about done.
Last night it was 22 degrees here. Rhubarb is handing it so far. Had to start a new one as our last one had been dug up by the deer and it died. So, picking any this year, but the new one seems happy and has been growing well. We're looking forward to making some sugar free strawberry rhubarb freezer jam next summer.
Greenhouse is still hanging in there, and plant Jeff keeps rolling in out from the garage. We hand water everything since we winterized the sprinkling system. (we still have a stock of collected rainwater we can use up. )
How did your brussel sprouts do? We have been thinking of trying some in the GH next summer. Did you start them from seeds or did you find started plants?
Had the final inspection on the stucco reno with the program manager this morning. We're very happy the results. Hopefully it won't require constant repairing like our stucco did. It is guaranteed for 50 years - well long enough for us, LOL.
Jeff got our tractor switched over from its bucket to the snowblower attachment and we staked out the driveway markers ahead of the ground getting frozen.
Today is switching over the patios from summer into winter readiness day. We'll pull all the flowerpots and put out the wintertime (slightly heated) cat boxes for our 5 'community cats'. They do such a good job of keeping the voles and mice under control after the voles ate our whole back lawn away one year.