Only a few tabasco peppers left on the plants, not sure if I’ll get any more or if the first good freeze will hit first.
I think I counted 9 garlic came up, and a small bunch from one I missed this year.
Time to start on a new layer of mulch. Leaves have been falling, I thnk I might have enough to go over them with the mower and chop up, then onto the garden.
If you haven’t tried it, definitely start using mulch. Only way to go. Get some earthworms underneath it, they do the tilling, the mulch helps insulate and keep the soil cooler in summer and warmer in winter, the lower layer turns into fertilizer, and I spend 20 minutes a week pulling weeds while everyone else spends 2 hours a day.
Only thing bad about it is...oh yeah nothing bad about it...
Just chop up leaves with the mower after they fall, rake it into a wagon and off to the garden, get it at least 4 inches thick and you’re good to go. Put a few earthworms underneath, you never have to till again, the worms take care of that. Just pull back the mulch where you want to plant in a circle about the size of a dinner plate. I use a little foot long garden trowel to plant, didn’t crank my tiller for 6 years or so except to do a neighbor’s garden, before I got rid of the old eyesore altogether.
I am a fan of mulch. I have raised beds so my weeding isn’t much any way usually. Hubby put all the leaves into a big round bunch circled by chicken wire in the fall. Uses it up come spring.