Walter Byrd

Sweet potatoes I honestly wouldn't worry about, the soil does enough to protect the tubers. Butternut too. I'd just throw something over the tomatoes and call it a night.

I suspect the tubers and squash will be alright. But, I would like to keep the leaves from dying off. After the one freezing night, the nights will be in 40s and the days in 60s and 70. I would like to let things grow and/or ripen a little more, if I could.

I suspect it will only go below 32 for an hour or two. At worst it will hit 31. Some forecasts are saying 34. I also suspect the freeze will in the early morning 5AM to 6AM.

Denver in October. Usually, nights are in the 40s F. But just tonight (actually early tomorrow morning) the temperature dips below freezing, then goes right back to 40s at night. Also, there may be some rain off and on tonight and maybe tomorrow morning.

I have stuff that I would like to leave a little longer: sweet potatoes, butternut squash. I would like to leave tomatoes a little longer, I doubt that can happen.

If it wasn't for the rain, I would throw my old towels and t-shirts over the plants. But having them wet from rain might make it worse.

Any ideas?

Update: after checking weather again, I don't think there will be rain. I guess I will try covering with the old t-shirts and towels. Unless I shouldn't.

I think big corporations try to placate the public with simplistic, self serving "solutions" i.e.:

Don't worry about plastics, just recycle your water bottles, and everything will be fine.

All we need are electric cars and solar panels, and global warming will go away.

Those sorts of thing.
Don't get me wrong, recycling, electric cars, solar panels, wind turbines, and the like, all have their place. But if we are going to fix global environmental issues, we need more than that.

Is there a difference in the ebook sold here, and the ebook sold on Amazon?

I can't fix the world, but I can fix my little corner of it.

From what little I have read from Bill Mollison, the permaculture movement is, ultimately, beyond that.
His vision seemed to be a global network of homesteads and ecovillages.
I would not expect anything like that overnight. But, at least it's a direction.

It's great that environmental videos and documentaries raise awareness about issues like: global warming, plastics in the ocean, vanishing coral reefs, destruction of the Amazon, and so on.

But it often seems that something is missing: what can we do about it? Practically nobody even addresses that. So you watch these documentaries and you just feel angry, and helpless, and frustrated.

Permaculture actually gives you a place to start. A plan where people can live differently, and thereby mitigate the environmental destruction. A way to find a network of people with similar interests.

Anyway, just thought I'd mention it - meaningless drivel.

'and to make it your ambition to live quietly and peacefully, and to mind your own affairs and work with your hands, just as we directed you, so that you will behave properly toward outsiders, and be dependent on no one and in need of nothing.' – 1 Thessalonians 4:11-12

“Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.” ― Edward Abbey, The Journey Home: Some Words in Defense of the American West

My wife had just bought a brand new Vista desktop. She's blind in one eye and has slightly distorted vision in the other. Her desktop settings are critical for her comfort, preventing eye strain and headaches.

I do not have the best vision either. One thing I especially like about the MATE desktop, I can make it look just like I want it to look. I can make the icons, the sidebars, and the fonts, as big as I like. I can make the background and the fonts in the terminal whatever color and size I want. I have found this to be difficult to impossible with Windows or MacOS.

“Anyone who believes that exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist” – Economist Kenneth Boulding