Frost

It called for cold weather last night, so we harvested all the lemons and tangelos. We had so many lemons this year that three large branches broke and fell off the tree even though we had pruned back 200-300 lemons in late summer. We picked over 1500 lemons yesterday! These would all have frozen in the cold. Our outdoor thermometer read 21 degrees this morning.

It's a new season

So the fall tomato experiment was a total failure. We had lots of rain that splashed mud all over the plants, and after that, even though we washed them off and sprayed with an anti-fungal agent, the plants just seemed to hibernate. They lived until the frost came, but never thrived and we harvested only a few tomatoes. Today we ripped them up and put them in the garbage. New seedlings are planted in the growing shed and we are hoping for a better season in 2015!