- Lows: 34 - 52 F
- Highs: 50 - 71 F
Planted:
- annual rye (green manure)
- winter wheat (2.25 lbs over about 120 sq ft.)
- rutabagas, purple top
- parsnips, Harris Model
- tomatoes
- sweet peppers
- green beans (last of)
- Swiss chard
- popcorn (missed a few the 1st time)
- buckwheat
- turnips
Gathered:
- pecans
Preserved:
- dehydrated Swiss chard
- tilled lower half of garden
- tilled old cucumber patch
- pulled the rest of the bush beans
- pulled popcorn stalks
- pulled most of the pole beans
- applied compost to cabbages
- applied compost to old cuke patch
- started new compost pile
- planted annual rye for a green manure cover crop
- planted an experimental patch of hard winter wheat.
- Joined our area food co-op
- Fri. pm, covered toms & peppers in preparation for frost
Noted:
- mesclun coming up
- radishes coming up
- garlic coming up
- broccoli starting to head
- ate our last mess of fresh steamed green beans for the year
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