Robin Edmonds

There was a major earthquake in Chile. So soon after the terrible devastation from a major earthquake in Haiti is very disconcerting. The loss of life was tremendous in Haiti – over 100,000 people died. But early reports from the 8.8 quake in Chile is more hopeful – less than 100 have died. Chile gets a lot of credit for having tough building codes and being better prepared to deal with earthquakes than Haiti.

The last couple of nights have gotten cold enough to finally freeze my pepper plants and tomato plants too. The tomato plants still had tomatoes on them and until the hard freeze they still had blooms on them, very strange that the plants even after the weather turned cold were still trying to put on tomatoes. The yield from my garden was so so, the peppers never put on many peppers or got very big we did get a few jalapenos and they were very good and the tomatoes were very plentiful and very tasty at the same time. So I would call my small garden a success. I can not wait for spring to start all over again.