We've had a couple of light frosts here and have cut down most of the Brugs. We like to cut them prior to a frost or freeze so we can get as many rooted cuttings as possible. Ken has over 1,100 cuttings started in the little greenhouse.

Ken went out and dug up all his Bananas and Plumerias and put them in storage for the winter. He's storing them in the Brooder House this year, it's small, well insulated and dry. He's leaving a light on for some heat. The plants have all the soil knocked off the roots and are in paper feed sacks. Oh, he also dug and stored some Alocasias, he likes to do that so he can get bigger plants the following year. We leave a few in the ground but they never seem to get as big as the stored ones do.

We had lots of seed pods on the Brugs this year, all Mother Nature's crosses, so we cut the stalks and put those with pods in buckets of water which I have to change out every few days. I'll get a couple of aquarium air pumps to...

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