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It’s all put to bed. Short days and 20F+/- every night is not conducive to gardening.
We had some snow yesterday, but my strawberries are still blooming! They just don’t want to quit.
My cherry bush died during the summer, but there was a mulberry sapling growing up through it, so we took care to cut the cherry away from it without hurting it. Mulberries are good.
I’m getting cabin fever a little early this year. Normally I don’t do my seed inventory until around January, but that’s done already. Now I’m anxiously waiting for seed catalogs to come in. Got the Gurneys one, but they don’t carry enough heirloom varieties for me, and their live plants are always DOA when I’ve ordered from them. Still, the pictures help.
I’m trying to get the final details worked out on my house designs. I need to set up a meeting with the county zoning board and I want to be ready. Had to put off building for 4 years due to health issues, it’s past time to get this done!
We bag our leaves in the ginormous outdoor hefty bags and stash them under a shed. We use those over the newspaper in the garden the next spring. Running over them with a lawnmower helps break them down faster, too.
just hate to see good organic matter ‘given’ away.
The Thursday night freeze zapped the eggplant, most of the beans, a pumpkin plant, and part of the watermelon, and nipped the peppers, even though they were all covered. The plants in the greenhouse are still good to go unless we get a heavy freeze.
Cabbage, broccoli, and collards looked bad yesterday, but the leaves have sprung back up today and they look healthy.