I am in z5a and am starting to bring stuff inside this week. It was 39 yesterday morning. I dug up a bell pepper from the garden and brought it inside on sunday. I took cuttings from an early girl tomato also and am rooting them. I will start bringing the amaryllis inside this weekend. I planted some cukes on sunday also and saw today that one is already coming up. I brought the 3 citrus trees inside a couple of weeks ago. The mineola tangelo has new growth and a bloom. One of the mandarins (kishu) has new growth and quite a few blooms. Tender succulents came inside on monday. will be planting lettuce, radishes, carrots in a cold frame early next week.

You know what I will be doing. Orchids, Orchids, and more Orchids alone with palm trees and bananas. I start getting ready in Oct but wait until a few weeks before freezing to load it up. That takes all day to load. Then the fun begins, cause the cymbidiums start to bloom.

Rob