We had our killing frost last night. It came a little early this year. So the garden is done for 2016. Not sure how low the temps were, but the cars and the ground and all vegetation was covered in a thick frost. Well, I still have a few things growing in the greenhouse, which had no problems with frost!
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| A heavy frost covers everything, including weeds! |
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| A row of dill and herbs encased in frost. |
Some things were still in the growing/developing stages, so we could at least cover those things. We put a large tarp over our watermelon patch in the hopes that the 5 huge melons out there would finish ripening.
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| About half the watermelon patch is covered. There are 5 or 6 melons still needing to grow a little. They are all about a foot in diameter, so we hope they make it! Behind the melon patch you can see the corn that was planted using that antique corn planter (I have an older post about this on my blog). Unfortunately, the deer ate just about all the corn in spite of an electric fence and a radio in the corn. | |
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| A close up of one of the big watermelons we hope ripen a little more! |
When the sun came up this morning, my cats found a way to keep warm:
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| Nine of my farm cats basking in the sun trying to keep warm while waiting for breakfast (or a foolhardy mouse to attempt to cross the yard in front of these 9 hunters!) |
The fall season officially starts in a little over a week. But up here in the north country, I guess fall is here already! Here in Minnesota we are now in the "winter is coming" mode.............
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