Since Thursday, the days have been pleasant, but this afternoon a front came in and the temperature plummeted, leaving a very cold night.  I’m glad I haven’t planted my tomatoes yet.  Tomatoes (and peppers and eggplants, basil and such) don’t like cold nights any more than I do. 

We had a customer call today and tell us that her tomatoes and cucumbers(!!??) had all turned yellow and were dying.  She had lost three weeks already, she was saying.  When we explained that tomatoes and cucumbers should not have even been planted yet in this kind of weather, let alone three weeks ago, she got a little huffy and said she certainly knew how to grow tomatoes.  Hmmm…

Written by Lynn on the slope of Teasel Hill where the temperatures have dropped.