We have a big day ahead tomorrow...

Tomorrow night the low is predicted to dip down to freezing in Harrisburg. Since our thermometers usually read a few degrees colder than Harrisburg, we anticipate our first hard freeze. We spent today picking peppers that we had covered with a polyspun fabric designed to keep frost off of crops. We also pulled out all the celery to ensure that it didn't freeze. The eggplants were stripped and tomorrow we will strip the pea patch of anything edible. The peas that we have now are frost bitten but still a nice side dish. They were covered, but it blew off during the night on Friday and they got frosty. A hard freeze will make them all crack and get mushy. We will put the polyspun fiber on the baby lettuces, and the chard in an effort to stretch their usefulness one more week. The rest of our crops like chinese cabbage, turnips, and radishes should survive hard freezes. We will do all that we can to make the last week of our CSA the greatest last week we have ever had. We want to end with a bang...and then fiddle around with our greenhouse production through the winter...