Thread: Freeze coming to the south

it was snowing just a bit here in central il yesterday, just a few flakes
but it has been belowin freezing for several nights, windchills even lower,
Lee
"George Shirley" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> We have a freeze warning for the next two days. Therefore we went out and
> picked all the green tomatoes, a ten-quart bucket full. I'm strongly
> thinking of making green tomato sweet pickles. Frost will finish off the
> green beans and crowder peas too so maybe we can salvage something with
> the green tomatoes.
>
> In addition the kumquats are ripening quickly, thinking about making a
> bunch of jars of kumquat marmalade, we only have one pint left and the
> marmalade is a favorite with all the descendants. Luckily we have several
> cases of empty jars now so it won't be a big problem. Most likely will buy
> a ten-pound bag of sugar tomorrow and get started. It will be nice to have
> sweet pickles again. We've been in drought conditions for so long we
> haven't made pickles in a long time.
>
> Stay warm.
>
> George