No Frost

[lsanderson]

I dragged the fig tree across the deck and up the stairs. It's not gotten any lighter over the summer.

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[dd-b.livejournal.com]

I picked most of the mint yesterday (and used about half of it; one small plant, so half the mint was two drinks).

It's got mint blight on the leaves already (new batch planted this year in a different location, after the mint blight cleared out the old batch). (I have no idea what the official name is; but the leaves get brown/black areas.)

When I was growing up, and even in the previous house, mint was an invasive species. The old mint bed in Northfield died, and the first mint bed at this house died.

Something kills mint?

[lsanderson.livejournal.com]

Who knew!

Re: Something kills mint?

[dd-b.livejournal.com]

It certainly startled me. The bed at my parents' place was on the north side of the house, right where the outside faucet was. It was there all the time I lived in that house, and was viewed as eternal. And my mother had to protect the other things on that side of the house from it pretty regularly.

But it died off somewhere around the time my mother moved out and my sister took the place over.

[pameladean]

I covered the enthusiastically-blooming tomatoes and the basil. I doubt there's time for the tomatoes to fruit, but I couldn't stand to let them just freeze.

I'm not sure it DID freeze last night; after I'd covered the tomatoes, I looked at the forecast again and they had removed the patchy frost from it.

P.