Hotter To Colder

     For the past few months it's been hotter than normal here. Now the little gal on the weather says next weeks we're gonna be colder than normal. I do declare, the weather is crazy, not only here but it seems world wide.

     Halloween is a mere 8 nights away and I'm frying green tomatoes from one on my washtub gardens. Also still harvesting okra pods for seed for next year,. I've filled almost two 16 ounce cups already and still have many more to gather as long as the wet weather don't come in and mildew/mold them. Last spring I was hard pressed to find even 1 packet of okra seeds. This coming Spring I should have plenty to share.

     I also last Spring planted some pineapple crowns to see could I get them to grow as well as my Mom did with hers.  She even had 1 make a pineapple a few years back! I was still living in the trailer hood but her plant got so big she threw it into the ditch behind her yard to be shed of it! But back to my plants, I have a dozen or so pineapple plants now in my living room
     I also have 3 date palm tree seedlings that are doing fair to middling. Just buy a pack of dates (with seeds, not pitted)...eat the fruit and spit the seed into a cup of dirt, add water and wait. I got all my seedlings started from the first pack of dates I bought. The grocery had some organic dates on sale that I bought along with some later dates and so far, no seedlings from them. As I recall, it takes a few weeks to almost a month to see any germination.