Not A Killer

Does it make you a little sad when you pull tha the plants from the soil? I am not in an area that gets really cold winters. I am going to miss your garden reports during the winter. What will you be reporting on then?

No frost here as of yet. It's still too warm in the mornings to worry about that yet. Usually I don't have to worry about covering my plants as they are mostly roses. But I have some new roses and a couple of new bird of paradise that I will need to cover when it gets cold enough.

When I lived in an area that got cold and snow. I would harvest the garden til it produced no more. Than I let it sit all winter til spring. I plow everything up. Which helped as a natural fertilizer, than replanted in the spring time. Always made for bigger and juicy veggies and strawberries.

This is the third time this season there was a frost warnnig, but since we are on the lake, the first couple times we didn't get a frost, but I saw that there was going to be an area wide frost, I went ahead and picked all the tomatoes..I did it late enough that all I did was pull the plant and pick the tomatoes, I haven't composted them yet.. I know that yout tip for green tomatoes will probably work on red tomatoes, I am hoping it also will work on yellow pear..I have tried before, and for some reason, I don't think that yellow pear ripens well off the vine..

I tend to harvest my garden mid september (it gets cold here alot earlier than there) before i harvest them if im not ready to and it freezes i go out with some blankets or whatnot and cover them. I couldnt do that this year as stupid zeus kept stealing all the coverings if i left him untied.

Hi GRANDPA BOB, All my tomatoes have all gone and I just have evergreen herbs and plants in my gardent so I don't have to worry about it, it a very small garden with low maintanance. Tamara

I usually cover them and try to extend the growing season as long as I can, but I did like you did this year. I picked everything that was close enough to ripe and let the rest go. Some things were in such abundance that I was tired of dealing with them, but other things I was sorry to see finished.

we didn't experience snow here as the winter here is not that cold... the worst winter i had experienced here is 0 degrees and there is still no snow... only small small ice cubes on the street... that's what i can see... the only snow i had experienced is when i make a trip to beijing, china... it is really freezing cold over there as the temperature goes down until minus 15 degrees... and i didn't do gardening as well... so again i really don't know the answer to your questions... sorry grandpa bob... take care and have a nice day...

I was gone for one month. I don't think it was that cold in Chicago. I still have some blooming tomato plants. It is so hard to think they may be gone soon. This is my first year with tomato plants, so I don't know what to do. I have many green tomatoes. Should I pick it up soon?

I don;t know what frost or snow is. I envy you because I never experienced what a snow looks like in reality. Take care. © ronaldinu 2008

A couple of days ago we did get our first frost. My hubby went out and covered all our green pepper plants and the tomatoes. But today it is raining out and very windy all the way to 45 mph. and 45 outside right now. It is cold in the house today but I did not turn on the heat yet. We do need to go outside sometime today and pick all the green tomatoes and green peppers that are left on the plants.

We had a frost here too in Indiana. We already took all of our tomato plants out for the season and ripened the green ones in the window sill. We have taken out all of our garden and saved what we could.

as i live in another country....i dont know much....

Those green tomatoes would be good for either pickled tomatoes or fried green tomatoes! Yum Yum Yum! Sounds like good summer sunshine to me. I do not have a garden to cover :(. I have used anything and everything I could find to cover mine in the past. Tarps, sheets, towels. Good luck with yours!

I just pick everything.. this year it was a few tomatoes and some cherry tomatoes.. and my swiss chard, though I think it will stand up to some frost..

We have had a couple of frosts already but after the first one I did the same thing and brought in all the rest of our tomatoes. This was really our first year with a backyard garden and pretty much everything was kind of new to my wife and I but we learned a lot. The tomatoes were great and the first year I have grown them. Our second frost did kill but our garden was safe as we didn't have anything left to kill other than fruitless plants. Next spring we are going to plant about a month earlier and we will cover the plants until the threat of frost has past and then we will do the same thing in the fall so that we can garden a bit longer. I am lovin' this gardening stuff.

[i]Hi Grandpa B, I have few green tomatoes and pepper but I am not getting or harvesting yet, I also didn't cover....I am planning to get them on weekend and get rid of the plants![/i]

Here in sunny CA we have not had a frost yet. In fact we are in the high 80's still but down into the high 40's in the early AM. I cannot wait for the cold and rain we need so much rain. We have had two years of drought and are in dire need or the water. I still have bell peppers on the plants and my egg plants are loaded. I will let them mature as much as possible. We usually do not cover our veggie garden once we get frost it is time to let it go for the season. We will cover plants if the frost gets down below the 30's into the 20's at night which is rare or the Central San Joaquin Valley of CA. I hope you do not get to cold this winter. Have a great day.

We have not had a frost yet in fact it has been pretty mild here for the time of year and pretty decent weather. We have been told on the weather forecast though today that it is going to turn cold next week and we might have our first frost then. I do not have plants or anything to worry about at the moment so that is not a problem for me.

Hi Grandpa Bob we are having another blasted heat wave here, Southern ca, almost Nov. our weather is so weird this year. Back in my home state I am sure they have also had frost by now too. My mom used to bring in the tomatoes vines and all and keep them that way. I dont know why the vines but that was the way my folks always did it. Once the frost came there the snow storms were not far behind. We are moving upstate towards San francisco into the colder area of Northern ca.