14 August 2018

An Early Autumn?

Do our tomatoes know something? Not only ours but those of our friends all seem to think it's autumn and time to die back. Not only the tomatoes, but the other garden plants seem to have completed their life cycle. They have reproduced and are done.

Normally, at this point in August we would still be harvesting and processing tomatoes and looking at another six weeks of production, even without covering them against frost in early October. Not this year, tho'!

And today almost makes me believe that they do know. After an inch of rain overnight, for the first time this summer, it's warmer in the house than outside.

Well, it is Nebraska, so who knows? But here's hoping!

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