No frost   down on the river yet, but can it be very far away? Our last planting of corn actually ripend up a lot the last 4 days with the  murky  damp tropical depression. The tomatoes have held up well to this point but I suspect that the warm damp nights have  unleashed a Pandora’s box of disease and they will start to go down quickly. Nontheless, the stand looks nice with colorful ripe peppers and tomatoes,corn, different colored potatoes, flowers and  fall apples,squash and  pumpkins. As Yogi said: ” It aint over til its over” so we muddle on, with  no frost yet and the stand closing dates set at Columbus Day weekend.

The field crew has been busy with wholesale: potatoes,tomatoes,peppers to the  coops,  sweet corn to a few farmstands and pumpkins,raspberries,(when weather permits) and mums to area stores and farmstands. I have been  getting some of the fields  cleaned up  and seeded down to various winter cover crops.The irrigation pipe is all picked up and out of the fields.  Soon I will be putting up  deer fence around the small fruit crops so they don’t chew the leaves and branches. All with an eye towards winter, but we are not worried yet. There is lots of nice fall weather to be enjoyed yet…