We never used to get our first light frosts until around Halloween, & certainly no hard "killing" frosts until into November. That changed last year when we started getting fairly regular light frosts early in October, with the first hard frost (with a 29-degree morning temp) on Oct. 20th.

Current weather reports are showing night temps for the rest of next week in the low 40's, so I won't be surprised if we get earlier-than-usual frosts again this year.

Our average frost is Oct. 17, and the garden is usually done after that. Our last spring frost is April 17.

I'm still holding out. No visible frost yet but tomorrow's low is forecast at 33.

We have a freeze and snow forecasted for the weekend. So that will be the end of my peppers and tomatoes!

I think we are going to freeze before we frost this year. Weird.

This year was weird it was like 85 and shorts weather. Then the next week was parka weather. That is why I haven't put in my paver path -it was too hot and then too rainy and windy and cold.

Consider yourselves lucky. We had our first hard frost/freeze several weeks ago. It has been down to 20 degrees several times since then--including this morning. It is currently 37 degrees and raining! Wonderful for the critters outside!!!

Minnie, how is your weather now? It looks like the summer/fall is over for a lot of you folks in the upper midwest.

Yeah sure it was 60 and sunny on the day I had to work.
I got to do a few things after work.
For some reason it seems to me that it is dark way earlier at night and later in morning than it normally is this time of year!

Yup! Weird weather most places, from what everyone is saying here!

Me too. We had a couple "heavy frosts" last week and the temps were low enough to kill some tomatoes, the basil, and other tender plants, but the tomatoes against the east side of my house were fine until we got the "hard" freeze with alot of wind the other night...Wed. or Thurs.

If the wind had been low, I think they might not have frozen, but time's up here! Gotta go pull the stuff out today and this week.

Actually, it's sunny and 51 here today and the weather people mentioned the term "possible Indian Summer" weather this coming week!

Looks like the low here tonight will be 30, but the lows through Friday show 42-49, and the highs are 56-60!

I'll take it! There's still so much to do!

I hope ya'll warm-up a bit!

My back is sore from tearing out 85 dead tomato plants along with all the twine attached to the poles. Due to the twine it all went on a burn pit. Those bamboo poles are very hard to pull out.

Anyway after many freezes and some good snow I still have root veggies, brassicas, perennial herbs, pac choi, leeks, scallions and lettuce alive. I will experiment and see how it will survive with heavy straw. Leeks, scallions and carrots overwinter here but I have never figured out what the brassicas can live through.

I am composting where the garlic will go tomorrow after work and we'll see how much garlic I can get planted! It was t-shirt weather (when working hard) today and all the asian lady beetles are going crazy!

First frost here this morning. And temps must have dropped down pretty good during the night since the barn hose was frozen. Time to start draining it at night I guess. It's TOO EARLY for this - lol!!

Our first frost was forecast for last night. I left the orchids out anyway because... well because I'm lazy for one, but they usually survive the first few frosts – microclimate is protected and keeps them safe, and the chilly weather encourages flowering.

This year got colder earlier, but our normal first frost date is Halloween (at least, that's how I've come to memorize it – I may be off by a few days).

Over here on the other side of the mountain, Matt--that's about what I figure our first frost too. "They" say it's about the middle of the month (20th or so) but Halloween is about right most years. We've had some frosts here this weekend, but supposed to be in mid 70's and lows in mid 50's by mid week.

Talk about freaky. Had a hard frost this morning with a temp of 29 degrees. Exactly the same day as last year. Humming The Twilight Zone theme here - lol!