Sunflower Savannah: After the Fun

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Chinese Long Noodle Beans, Thai Soldier Beans, Kentucky Wonder Pole Beans, LOTS of Slicing Tomatoes, Cherry Tomatoes, Kohlrabi, Radishes, Spicy Green bunches, Swiss Chard, Foragers Salad Mix and maybe Green Onions depending on if I get everything done.

Non GMO Slow Food Cayuga Duck Eggs and Free Range(Really)Chicken Eggs,

It's a lot and maybe the last week for a few things like beans. We're expecting 3 days of pretty cold weather. The first few frosts usually miss us, my neighbor already had 2 small bouts, but Wednesday we're expecting 30 degrees, Thursday 29 degrees and Friday 32 degrees. That's a pretty good chance that we will get some. We will cover stuff with frost fabric and plastic but continuous hours of below freezing weather will hurt us anyway. we'll pick all the tomatoes smaller than a golf ball and that will usually survive all but the worst freezes. The tomatoes in the high tunnel will probably be okay but there aren't that many. Either way we'll have tomatoes for a few more weeks.

Many of you already know that we were on vacation last weekend. Above is the rare siting of a "Bill' at rest. One hardly ever sees this. While we were gone,(and more)all of these tomatoes were ripening. Unfortunately, even though the vines are loaded, most of the branches are falling off due to White Fly and Aphid damage. It doesn't matter so much right now since we are about to get a frost but still it's kinda depressing considering all of the things that I've done this season to get rid of these sap sucking pests. Just look at how different these tomato plants look just from 2 weeks ago. It's the same row that I previously photographed. Now you can see through all seven rows.

The field that we planted of Turnips and other cold weather plants is doing well. They should be big enough to withstand the freeze and be around for future harvests, some for sheep food. We have trays of spinach for planting in the high tunnel. So weird to be heading into the cold season. On days like this, it seems as if it will never be warm again but remember, The Sun also Rises and it will be.

We'll see you Saturday at Tower Grove Farmers Market with all this stuff and more.