When I got up around a quarter of seven this morning, first thing I did after letting the dog out, was to run to the computer to check the temperature. Last night there were "patchy frost" warnings, yet this morning it looked fairly white out there. To my dismay, the temperature just a couple of miles from here was only 26 degrees. The history for that site showed that the temperature had been steadily falling all night.
So, the gardening season has officially ended - at least for the vegetable garden. Yesterday I picked everything I could, tomatoes, peppers, cut some swiss chard, found a couple of handfuls of green beans, a last yellow squash and a last zucchini. Actually, there are some winter squash to bring in, potatoes to dig, brussels sprouts to pick, so it's not quite done. Then there is the clean up to do. So, enough work yet, but, for the most part, this garden season is over.
A strange year it was, too. Slow starting, very chilly and dry for parts of the summer, then very wet and still not as warm as usual, followed by more than 30 days of no rain. We had some warm days then, but few of the 90+ degree days that have typified summers in this part of Wisconsin. It's amazing the garden did as well as it did, given the weather, and the people's neglect.
Well, another year is coming, another garden season will begin in March when I plant more little seeds and begin the cycle again.
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