What did you do in the garden today?

[jerryse]

I have lost interest in gardening due to this cold snap. I want to hibernate until spring.

 

[WthrLady]

Yeah, I can understand that. The winters seem to get colder and longer each passing year. Might come a time to retire down south and not fight the cold of winter here in northern Minnesota.

FYI, we have our house inside thermometer set at 63F, which will be about 100F warmer than outside temps tonight! Expect to see wind chills at about -40F tonight.

Yep, here too.

 

[Eagle343]

just more researching in ground green housing and aquaponics while we get more snow and the temp drops down below 5Deg F before wind chill.

 

[fuzzi]

I picked some of these Friday. Got them washed and cooked yesterday. Some to eat and some to freeze.
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Also pulled a few baby carrots.
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Got just a few broccoli florets.
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The mustards are still growing.
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Weather is fairly nice today but it's going to be really cold this week. Cold for us but not as cold as some of you.

Your carrots look like my carrots.

 

[fuzzi]

There are 4 pairs of boots drying/warming by the wood stove. And 4 pairs of gloves. Coats are hanging off the backs of chairs, ditto with scarves and a pair of pants.

When I was growing up in Connecticut our house had oil heat with radiators. We laid our mittens on top of the radiators, those things got hot!

 

[AMM10]

-8' F right now, says tonight will "feel" like -42'F tonight. WTHeck! We live in southern IA not the North Pole. Hopefully this means an early spring...

 

[Acre4Me]

Pretty cold here. Sunny but -2F at nearly 9am. Looks like it stays pretty cold, particularly at night, through next Sunday. The best thing though is the fact that a longer cold spell kills more overwintering bugs!

 

[littledog]

I have lost interest in gardening due to this cold snap. I want to hibernate until spring.

Same here! I've barely read and haven't responded to my favorite discussion here, since late October, early November. Winterized most but not all, of my beds, mostly been hibernating.

 

[Sueby]

Hope y'all (and your animals) stay safe - it's so cold! We're expecting some snow tmrw. I went out to check for eggs a few mins ago & everyone is all puffed up, they look like giant chickens. & it's not even that cold here, like 15 degrees!

Doing some baking today & will probably only go outside to check for eggs during the day so they don't freeze.

 

[fuzzi]

I picked a couple carrots so I could feed the greens to the flock