glitch

Frost seems imminent. Tomorrow morning, Thursday morning. It’ll probably happen. I think that would be the earliest frost that I’ve had since moving up here, which is a surprise for this location. We are consistently 5 degrees colder that the Twin Cities. Despite that, it still is tremor in the system. After weeks of hot muggy weather, to be having this sneak peak at the season to come is a comfort and a shock, all at the same time. But tip the scales just a little, and tonight will be a freeze, a little further than I’d like for technically still summer.

It’s still summer right?

We will be taking some measures here to prep. This weekends salad is getting a remay cover, a thin line between being a nice salad, and being frozen mush. We’ll pull all the winter squash into the greenhouse to avoid freeze damage. And tonight we’ll put overhead irrigation out on the winter beets. The irrigation will prevent a frost from settling on the leaves. The beets have yet to put on nice roots, so it would be a shame if they lost their tops. Can’t rightly get one without the other.

Towards the end of August, I hemmed and hawed about whether to keep planting. Now it appears that we planted more than will even come to fruition. The further down the cold road you go in September, the less likely you will get that last boost of warmth that pushes the carrots from nothing to worth something. I hope for winters sake that there is a warm road after this into October, that this is just a brief glitch, and that we can just thank Mamma Nature for the sneak peak in the meanwhile.