I’m sad that all our flowers and most everything else died overnight due to the cold snap and sudden hard freeze.
Deciding to try to ‘make lemonade’ from the carnage, I just finished cleaning out the tomato plants in the two brick planters close to the house that we converted into ‘square foot garden’ planters, taking out all the soil and replacing it with Mel’s Mix. (combo of peat moss, vermiculite, and three kinds of compost: mushroom, barnyard, and cotton seed).
As you can see, we had several tomatoes that hadn’t had a chance to ripen.
I’m going to wrap them in newspaper and put them in the pantry, hoping that they might still ripen. I was successful with this one year, and a dismal failure another year, but I love to try. :0)
The sun is shining brightly, but it’s cold out there, with a good breeze, so I’m doing short sessions outside and then coming in to warm up in-between. I don’t know how much I can get cleaned out today, but hopefully I can get two or three sessions in.
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