Oh, Boy, looks like frost...

[dw]

if the weather folks are right, Tues night...time to get out the plastic. The buckwheat needs a little more grow time and the tomatoes are not red. Busy weekend...picking those peppers!

[Woodpecker]

Well no frost here, that’s mighty early for frost! I’m going to start bringing in my house plants that were out for the summer...I think it’s going to get cooler real fast. I usually wait until 9/15 every year to bring them in. This year just feels “different”. Gee, I wonder why🧐

[ketoriverfarm]

Thankfully we do not have any frost in the forecast. Our first frost is normally about October 15.

[susannah]

Yikes. Is it normal for you to get frost in early September? It would be pretty early for us, even up here. Of course, our last frost was in mid-June this year. I'm hoping we'll have at least a few more weeks until it frosts.

[dw]

This is extremely early, usually more towards the end of the month. I will always remember when my son was in Kindergarten (grown man now), it snowed in Sept and he says, Christmas must be pretty soon!

[mogal]

Frost isn't in our forecast yet but it could get into the 40's as lows next week. DH has a remodeling project near the window where I keep a lot of my houseplants and I've put him on notice that he needs to get it done while they are still outside for their summer "vacation." We're talking about my ginger, turmeric, cardamom plants, a banyan tree a friend started from seed over 20 years ago, lemons, aloe vera, not to mention a couple of ferns, spider plants.

Average first frost for us is October 10 but I've seen it come as early as mid Sept and as late as Thanksgiving. Ah, Missouri. If you don't like the weather, wait five minutes.

[dw]

I'm happy...I got ALL the peppers picked and sorted. Roasted & froze the anaheims now on to the hot babies! It is now 100 degrees...can't believe it will freeze.

[solargeek]

susannah, we have had nightly 40s 4x/week snd all next week along with forecasted torrential rains!

[farmerjack]

See the forecast for parts of MT., WY. , and CO. to get snow next week. Denver to be near 100 on Sunday, low 90's on Monday and high of 37 with snow on Tuesday. With all the fires in the west , we could stand some further west.

[susannah]

Sept 6, 2020 3:22:54 GMT solargeek said:

susannah , we have had nightly 40s 4x/week snd all next week along with forecasted torrential rains!

And surprisingly (or not) since we're north of you, we haven't gone below 50 overnight. YET. It's coming. In fact, I see 39* for the projected low one night this upcoming week. And while I see that we're supposed to get showers a few of the days, I haven't seen much about torrential rains for us. I hope we don't get them -  we've had a couple of big dumps of rain over the last month or so, and the lake looks like it wants to come a little further up on shore. Times like this make me glad our house is 200 feet back from the lake - and a number of feet higher.

[Woodpecker]

When we have a nor’easter here, especially if it’s at high tide & a full moon, then it floods at the last house closest to the creek. In 1990 a nor’easter came through and that house had 6’ of water in the basement. I hear you about the lake rising. Sounds exciting though, in a way! You can look from 200’ away, good planning Sue. My house is up a hill and is the first house on my street. No creek water problems.

I do love living near the water.🌊

[dw]

Snowing and 33 degrees this morning. Says it's supposed to be back to 90 by the end of the week. This weather is crazy!

[Woodpecker]

dw, I heard that this morning...in Denver it was 95 yesterday during the day and 32 by nightfall. Now those are some drastic changes!!! How do you handle that heat change? Yikes!!!

[susannah]

Woodpecker , I love living on water, but wouldn't want to be living IN water. I've seen some houses (on other lakes) that are so close to shore the lake is right up to their doors during high water time. No thank you. It looks like the lake level has dropped a couple of inches on our lake. Guess the dam is open again, which helps the lake levels on this part of the chain to drop. While the rest of the state has been having rain the past several days, we have been dry. Oh wait, I think we got 6 raindrops this morning. We could get a little rain today, but not much. Maybe Saturday, too. At least it isn't snow...

We have a frost advisory tonight. Not sure if we'll actually get frost, but it could happen. So much for my hopes that we had a few weeks left before the first frost!

[mogal]

Susannah, does it help much/any that most of your garden is in containers on your deck? I know we have microclimates around the house and yard but when the temperatures are really low, all bets are off.

[susannah]

Sept 9, 2020 19:20:00 GMT mogal said:

Susannah, does it help much/any that most of your garden is in containers on your deck? I know we have microclimates around the house and yard but when the temperatures are really low, all bets are off.

I actually have...make that HAD...a larger amount in the raised bed than in the containers. But you're so right; because the containers were on wheeled contraptions, I'd push them up against the house - next to where the fireplace is. And they'd stay safe in below freezing temps. The raised bed has a hoop-house like design over it, and when it got cold we'd drape plastic tarps over the whole thing. 

I live in an area of microclimates. It can be raining/storming on one lake, and the next lake over has brilliant sunshine. It's the most extreme example of microclimates I've ever seen.

That being said, I did pick any tomatoes from the containers that looked like they'd have a chance to ripen, and I have them in brown bags indoors. And tore up everything else. The deck is getting very limited sunsine, and the evening temperatures don't support ripening very well. I ripped up the raised bed a few days ago and planted the fall ground cover. As much as I love it here, I do hate the limited growing season. Our next home will be nowhere near Lake Superior - we both agree on that point.