Good morning, and it really is fall. Welcome to Saturday Morning Garden Blogging.
We got a whiff of frost on October 3 — enough to freeze burn the very top of the tomato vines, but not enough to kill the warm weather crops. Then, after a few days in the 70s the highs went down to the 60s, with about a ½" of rain.
Yay rain!
And it smells like fall in the morning. Only a couple more weeks of daylight savings time — and as I walk to work in the morning I'll be glad to have the earlier sunrise.
The box of bulbs from Old House Gardens arrived on Thursday — but I'm not sure the ground is cold enough yet. Think I'll hold back another week or two before planting them. There's plenty of other clean up to do before the bulbs go into the ground.
However, the hyacinth bulbs in the refrigerators are good to go; they've been chilling since early September. I've set the first batch of bulbs to rooting so in January I can smell the hyacinth and have hope of the spring to come.
That's what's happening here. What's going on in your gardens?