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Re: first frost

At 05:09 PM 10/13/97 -0400, you wrote:
>Dear Lisa,
>        Re. waiting for the first frost , so am I ! A ground frost has been
>forcast generally in the U.K. tonight. I'm in Derbyshire and though it has
>felt cold today, despite the sun, I'm not convinced the're right. I've just
>stuck my nose out through the the window at circa 22.00hrs and it seems
>cold here (opposite Kinder Scout) but not freezing.
>        I want a good frost to tell me that winter is really on the way and
>then I can truly wrap up the garden for winter and stop the "With a few
>more days of sun they will ripen" mode.
>
>        Good Luck Next Year,
>
>                        Paul Pickford.

Hello Paul and fellow gardeners. Your comment about wrapping up the garden
for winter caught my attention.   I am a new subscribee who signed up last
Mon. evening at an internet class at the comm. college.  Our homework
assign. was to subscribe to a mailing list which interested us, read the
postings for a week, then write about it.  I browsed through the gardening
categories, couldn't find one on the West Coast, so I decided to try
veggie-list, although I noticed it was geared for New England and colder
climates other than mine. I have enjoyed reading the postings. I live in
Bakersfield, California.  It is located near the southern tip of the great
San Joaquin valley.  We average 5.5" rainfall per year and it is very hot
(dry heat).  We probably won't see any frost until December (if we're
lucky).  It is supposed to be 80 tomorrow.  I'm waiting for the temps to
cool down, so I can start a nice winter garden.  I am still growing
okra-it's 5ft tall. Okra doesn't like cool weather, so when it does start to
cool later this month, I'll tear it out and plant either bush beans or snow
peas.  Tomatoes and peppers do great here.  In fact, I am still picking
beautiful bells and pimentos.  I had 7 nice Roma tomato plants, which
produced all summer as well as some cherry and Better Boys.  Our county fair
was 2 weeks ago, and I won 5 ribbons on my garden produce.  1st place on raw
pack carrots, 2nd place on a rich tomato sauce cooked with a bouquet garni,
2nd on picked baby beets w/raspberry vinegar, 2nd on blackberry jam, 3rd on
pickled baby carrots w/pearl onions & lemon thyme.  We have a bad white fly
problem out here.  They showed up about 2-3 summers ago and thrive in the
heat.  They have decimated the rest of the tomatoes, so they will need to be
pulled up right away.  As soon as the weather cools, the white flys will
disappear over the winter and then return again about late June-July.  
>
Jan Oldham, Office Assistant
Academic Senate Office
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