Ending and Beginning

The Saturday night frost was pretty light, and most of the tomatoes survived. Sunday (last) night’s frost killed them all. Our thermometer said 29 when I looked at it this morning. It also got all the squash and peppers. The kale, collards, swiss chard, and beets are of course fine.

The most satisfying, exciting thing in the world for me to do is build topsoil. I have no idea why. I dug 5 gallons of kitchen scraps  and about 16 gallons of coffee grounds into the trenches in the west bed today.

UPS delivered another 100 lbs of hard red winter wheat today. I’m happy that we found a good way to use that (pancakes), and grateful that we’re well-off enough to be able to buy good food for storage.

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