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Kaleva

(38,542 posts)
Wed Oct 13, 2021, 05:27 AM Oct 2021

I'm still harvesting cucumbers from my garden here in Upper Michigan

Had two yesterday for lunch along with a bowl of San Marzano tomatoes.

We usually have frost here towards the end of September but nothing yet.

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I'm still harvesting cucumbers from my garden here in Upper Michigan (Original Post) Kaleva Oct 2021 OP
San Marzano are the best... MiHale Oct 2021 #1
In January, you'll miss these days. Enjoy! What a natural gift. jimfields33 Oct 2021 #2
We still haven't had a really cold day yet either (STLMO), usually we would have had at least one or SWBTATTReg Oct 2021 #3
I haven't had good cucumbers for several years. femmocrat Oct 2021 #4
Still taking tomatoes of the grow light system in the living room! We only have 2" of soil on ... marble falls Oct 2021 #5

MiHale

(10,894 posts)
1. San Marzano are the best...
Wed Oct 13, 2021, 06:23 AM
Oct 2021

Tomato for sauce, imho. Weather has been strange for a Michigan October usually scurrying about covering for frost, harvesting before the freeze. Not this year.
Another bumper year for black walnuts must’ve moved about a half ton yesterday and gotta clean up today before a “must” cut on the grass, more rain starting tomorrow.
All the rain, wind and yo-yo temperatures made us harvest the rest of our roma tomatoes yesterday. They were looking “bloated”, ready to split open.
All the peppers are still doing well.

This weather is so weird…my next door neighbor still has his cannabis plant outside and it’s doing very well!


SWBTATTReg

(24,337 posts)
3. We still haven't had a really cold day yet either (STLMO), usually we would have had at least one or
Wed Oct 13, 2021, 08:04 AM
Oct 2021

so days where I had to turn the heat on, but I still haven't yet as I told my SO, who did tell me that the colder weather is coming over the several days...we'll see. I haven't seen in quite a while how long the Summer heat has lasted into the Fall. As a friend of mine said, he wouldn't mind that the weather stays nice and warm (not too hot) until Xmas day, snow on that day, and then revert back to nice and warm weather afterwards (he's 78, and I kind of agree w/ him, it would be nice for a change to not worry about frost/ice/snow for a while in the mid-west, as we usually have).

femmocrat

(28,394 posts)
4. I haven't had good cucumbers for several years.
Wed Oct 13, 2021, 09:08 AM
Oct 2021

Not sure what I’m doing wrong, as we used to get so many we couldn’t give them all away! We had a lot of tomatoes and peppers this year though. Still getting green peppers and yellow Hungarian wax peppers. They freeze nicely.

marble falls

(62,523 posts)
5. Still taking tomatoes of the grow light system in the living room! We only have 2" of soil on ...
Wed Oct 13, 2021, 09:40 AM
Oct 2021

... solid granite. And the condo will nor allow raised beds.

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