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Message: [QUOTE="ClifSpliffy, post: 4092682, member: 9260"] i checked the peppers around 11/6 or so, the morning after the second night of 'too cold to grow.' apparently, bucky deer trashed that plot again, and et all the jalapenos that he could reach, yet left the kaliwondergreens untouched. it was over anyway for both of them as the 2 nites cold turned their leaves purple/brown. harvesting a couple dozen of the sweetest and crispiest mostly green, some red, a few orangish, peppers, im making the official call as to the end of my summer growing season at early november. a-ma-zing. the good thing with that annual sun/temp switch for the veggies, is that it usually triggers the bark on some split firewoods, like oak, to now fall off easier. seemingly yesterday, that switch used to happen in september. a big deal on a lot of levels. north winds have been warm, like todays north wind. ground is still warm, and under the leaf litter piles, the earthworms are casting like it's still labor day. and speaking of making dirt, it's high season for making it out of leaves, with the mowers. and then celebrate with a cocktail - castings and leaves. free dirt, free fert. and, there are almost zero ticks so far this year in my local forests or grasslands, even at those times when the 'growing' seasons for them were at their height. [/QUOTE]