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Re: First Frost

>My grandmother has lived 90 years in the mountains across the river in 
>PA from you.  The weather there is certainly interesting.  I was there 
>in mid-Sep and autumn was just beginning.  No leaf color yet but the 
>goldenrod was beautiful.
>
>Do you have a rock and red shale garden on your side of the river?  My 
>grandfather always got good yield from what looked to me to be the most 
>worthless soil imaginable.
>
>Steve  (Maritime Climate -- USDA Zone irrelevant)

Not sure what you mean by a "rock and red shale garden", but there certainly
was a lot of shale in the wooded hills behind the house I used to live in; I
now live at the bottom of a river valley and don't find shale in the soil;

as you referred to the leaf colors around here, let me say that we went for
a ride along Route 17 which goes west along New York's southern tier, and
the colors were breath-taking; there is more red than usual, possibly caused
by the lack of rain this summer.

Isabelle Hayes
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