Winters A Coming

[Dekster]

Noticeable temp drop this weekend here. Few weeks to frost. Get your plants in that need to be in. My winter garden is slowly coming up. Will be a few months before it is bountiful.

 

[EvilCat Breath]

But global warming!

 

[dblack]

Can't wait!!!

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

Noticeable temp drop this weekend here. Few weeks to frost. Get your plants in that need to be in. My winter garden is slowly coming up. Will be a few months before it is bountiful.

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We had a light freeze last night. Did not expect it to get so cold. Hope my winter squash is okay.

 

[petro]

90 last Monday and ran the AC. Dropped fifty degrees and last night fired up the furnace.

Seems like a good fall type day to burn some brush with a few bumps of Fireball.

Fall colors in Central MN at about 50%.

Last year heavy snow hit in late October and didn't leave until April, we got 7 feet for season and Duluth got over 10ft. It was a long winter. Hope we have more fall this year.

 

[westwall]

Noticeable temp drop this weekend here. Few weeks to frost. Get your plants in that need to be in. My winter garden is slowly coming up. Will be a few months before it is bountiful.

We had our first snow a week ago.

 

[Natural Citizen]

I already broke out the flannels and the jeans.

 

[petro]

The bugs are gone.

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

90s to high 40s in two days

love this time of the year

 

[sparky]

~S~

 

[petro]

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Fuzzy wuzzies.
That's what we called them.

 

[petro]

Got my drunken bonfire started, about 55F out.
Perfect fall night for a couple bumps.

 

[Dekster]

Got my drunken bonfire started, about 55F out.
Perfect fall night for a couple bumps.

Way too windy for outside burning here today.

 

[petro]

Way too windy for outside burning here today.

Perfect calm fall night here.
A few drinks into it now.

 

[JohnDB]

Then there's those of us who got a really late start on tomatoes...

So we made a frost tunnel....
Well it's just a greenhouse.

I have 5, 5gallon buckets I keep my tomatoes in.
As a retired electrician I had an idea.

4 pieces of ½" conduit, one stick of ¾" conduit, two 8' deck boards and some one hole straps.

That ought to keep the frost off.
The ½ EMT fits tightly inside of the ¾" EMT. The two straps hold the ¾" conduit (cut in 12" pieces) straight.

Kinda surprised myself with the formula working out evenly for the 10' sticks of ½EMT.

I put 12 15⁰ degree bends in the conduit starting at 29¾" in and every 5½" afterwards to make the half circle. 29¾" is at the center of the bend and each one following is done exactly the same way. On the center.

This gives you a 4 foot tall by 3½ feet wide greenhouse. Perfect sized for tomato plants. No waste or trim of the ½" EMT conduit either...and at $7/stick these days you can afford to waste anything. I remember easily when it was $1.90 to $2.50/stick. (wasn't but a couple of years ago)

 

[dblack]

Noticeable temp drop this weekend here. Few weeks to frost. Get your plants in that need to be in. My winter garden is slowly coming up. Will be a few months before it is bountiful.

Can't wait. It's been a long "not winter” season.

 

[JohnDB]

Lookit at what I found....guess I gotta rake them all up.

If you have lived up north all your life...
These are pecans...as in pecans pie

 

[Dekster]

Looks like Monday morning will be the first frost in this area. I generally assume it will be the 19th when planning my plantings so pretty close.

 

[Dekster]

Then there's those of us who got a really late start on tomatoes...

So we made a frost tunnel....
Well it's just a greenhouse.

I have 5, 5gallon buckets I keep my tomatoes in.
As a retired electrician I had an idea.

4 pieces of ½" conduit, one stick of ¾" conduit, two 8' deck boards and some one hole straps.

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That ought to keep the frost off.
The ½ EMT fits tightly inside of the ¾" EMT. The two straps hold the ¾" conduit (cut in 12" pieces) straight.

Kinda surprised myself with the formula working out evenly for the 10' sticks of ½EMT.

I put 12 15⁰ degree bends in the conduit starting at 29¾" in and every 5½" afterwards to make the half circle. 29¾" is at the center of the bend and each one following is done exactly the same way. On the center.

This gives you a 4 foot tall by 3½ feet wide greenhouse. Perfect sized for tomato plants. No waste or trim of the ½" EMT conduit either...and at $7/stick these days you can afford to waste anything. I remember easily when it was $1.90 to $2.50/stick. (wasn't but a couple of years ago)

Once you button it down, if you put a few jugs of hot water under the plastic with them, you might be able to buy yourself even more time. If you really want to go all out, paint the jugs black and sit them in the sun all day to heat them back up for the next night.

 

[expat500]

Noticeable temp drop this weekend here

Just happened from one day to the next. After a summer of sitting outside.