I did not notice frost on my lawn this morning, but I did notice that as I drove through the middle of American Fork on my way to work that the houses had frost on their roofs. That’s the first sign of frost that I’ve seen yet this season. But we are heading into another warm spell this week, starting today. So, my green beans should continue developing. I think they need another week or two to produce a crop.

This reminds me of something amazing I learned on the GardenWeb Rocky Mountain Gardening forum recently. When it gets cold and the tomato plants start to die off, you can cut them off at the ground, hang them upside down in the garage or basement (out of sunlight) and the green tomatoes will slowly continue to ripen. Skybird on the forum says she was picking tomatoes from a vine hung in her garage all the way into January! Wow! I’ll be definitely doing that next month. She recommended using a thick rubber band looped around the base of the stalk, because as it dries out, the stalk will shrink, and it might come loose from a string and fall on the floor.