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<\/a>Overnight the tomato plants died down to half their original height. Sigh. And some of the Romas were just starting to turn color, too.<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>But on the good side it was a bright clear sunny day, perfect for picking things.<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>The squash plants were particularly upset by the low overnight temperatures.<\/p><\/div>\n
Amazingly enough some plants that we thought would be very upset didn’t seem to notice.\u00a0 There must have been a pocket of warmish air swirling around the corn plants, for instance.\u00a0 Those didn’t care at all, and it is beginning to look like we are going to see ripe corn out of the garden.\u00a0 Even some of the smallest plants are setting ears of corn.\u00a0 Wow.\u00a0 The melon plants lost over half of their leaves but enough stayed good that we left the plants in the ground and we’ll see what they do.\u00a0 Those were an experiment anyway, we didn’t expect to get anything out of them.<\/p>\n
The pepper plants which never looked good at all, the whole time, looked even worse after the frost.<\/p>\n
<\/a>The largest pepper is called a Gourmet, and we have no idea if it is hot, or mild. Three Anaheim peppers joined the queue, and a little pile of baby Bell peppers are in a row behind them. And then there are the hotter peppers. We don't know which was which, but they add a nice kick to anything I've put them in. And that's it for peppers out of 16 plants. Next year will be better.<\/p><\/div>\n
Learning about growing peppers we have been enlightened that they don’t like it too hot, they don’t like it too cold, they like it just right.\u00a0 Goldilocks plants!<\/p>\n