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First Frost: Good and Bad
Oct 3, 2009 | 8:31 AM PST

I experienced my first frost with my first garden this year.  I heard the weatherman warning about it yesterday morning, so I knew I had to get out there and strip my plants of veggies.

Good: 10 lbs of Jalapenios

Bad: 50 mph winds pelting rain.

Good: finding the hidey-holes that the cucumbers were using

Bad: Wind Chill of 30 degrees

Good: Hot cocoa after each bone-chilling trip outside

Bad: Throwing out my back on my last trip to the garden.

Good: enough green tomatoes to fill a paper grocery bag

Bad: Waiting for the green tomatoes to ripen in a paper grocery bag

Good: Waking up this morning to find we didn't get a frost.

Bad: Hands that are burning from picking peppers in the rain without gloves.

Good: Learned a lot about harvesting my garden.

I picked all the vegetables off all my cucumber, zucchini, tomato, bell pepper, and jalopenio pepper plants, whether they were ripe or not.  It took 5 trips with a laundry basket.  Thankfully, it didn't frost, so I'll still have more coming from my garden if we have an indian summer!