Monday, October 11, 2010

Fall Garden Prep

Well, the beautiful weekend is now behind us here in New England and what a beauty it was! Perfect get outside weather.

I was lucky enough to spend the entire day on Saturday cutting grass - three lawns. Sunday, well Sunday was spent in my garden. Just about have it put to bed for the winter. All that's left to do is to plant the winter rye, wahoo! Yup, picked all the tomatoes and have them stored in the garage. Pulled all the plants and chopped them up nice and small then added them to the compost pile. Four barrels of good rich bedding from the animal pen spread on the garden and turned into the soil! Too much work would be an understatement! Hopefully I'll be able to stand up straight again soon... Can't believe it's that time of year already. Seems like I just did all this, alas.

Also planted (3) 8' rows of California Softneck garlic, mmm mmm good!


I still have the three raised veggie beds to get winterized and will tackle that once the kale has all been feed to the bunnies. Compared to the big garden, these guys will be a piece of cake to take care of. Also, there are ALL the flower beds that need to be tackled too. Always something.

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