Well, the weather heads hit it on the button this morning. Yesterday we picked the whole garden. Three buckets of green tomatoes, eggplant, etc. Just in case the temps might actually hit freezing. I got up to give the dawg her meds and grub at 0530 and, sure enough, the thermometer said it was 36F and still dropping.
We will put the tomatoes on the kitchen counter and let them ripen and then we will turn them into bacon and tomato sandwiches. We have a freezer full of eggplant so they will go to the church pantry along with what's left of the okra. The small sweet peppers will, as usual, be chopped, frozen and vacuum bagged for later use. We eat a lot of sweet peppers as you might notice.
My allergies are driving me crazy, runny nose, weeping eyes, sneezing, etc. Guess I will have to make an appointment with the allergist and see what can be done. My doctor has already told me that it is probably caused by the meds he and other doctors have prescribed for me, mostly the heart and stroke meds that I have to take to stay on earth instead of in it. You have to be very brave to get this old and still standing. It is a PITA but I guess I still have great grands to train.
Our lemon tree has leaf curl so will be pulling a lot of leafs off and burning them. It is not a true lemon but is a cross between a lemon and a grapefruit. The fruit is almost grapefruit size but is very sour. We brought the seeds when we moved here in 2012 and the tree is already over six feet tall. Probably going to pull the blueberry plants up and toss them, they aren't growing well at all and we don't have enough sunshine for them. May put in blackberries or dewberries, local garden store has domestic dewberries and those are our favorite. Dewberries will grow well in shade and produce fruit.
I think I will go watch the news and see how panicky the locals are getting. It has been over four years since we had a freeze here, probably going to be some wrecks too as the furriners who moved here to get away from the high dollar taxed states are always in a hurry. They work downtown Houston and live out here in what used to be the boonies. Since we moved here in 2012 more than seven thousand homes have been built in our immediate area. So much for peace and quiet. It's 0600 CT right now and I can hear the cars going by on the four lane east of here by three blocks. I am so happy I am retired and don't have to go anywhere in a hurry.
George