Today was one of those rare days in fall/winter where it's sunny and cool, but nice enough that you can go work in the garden. Since I still had all that bare ground (and knowing nature abhors a vacuum), I decided to stop off at the first house I passed on the way to the garden that had bags of leaves on the curb, and see if I could snag some. The highly confused man who opened the door accepted my bizarre explanation of needing mulch for a garden with good grace, and I shoved three bags into my trunk before heading off again. Apparently, I have no self-consciousness when dealing with people I will likely never see again.
Armed with my leaf bags, cardboard from work, and the prospect of having to weed everything in the spring if I didn't get cracking, I managed to get most of the upper bed filled in with either leaves or mulch. Good thing, too, because something was sending little sproutlings up all over the area. We'll see if I caught them in time. Here's what it looks like now:
Unfortunately, the bottom board fell off of the middle bed there, so I wasn't able to get it completely dug in and leafed/mulched, but that should help immensely! The carrots that you see in the foreground are doing wonderfully, I harvested one row of them today and planted garlic for the spring. Sadly, there was a frost last night, and the tomatoes and peppers are finally dead. I weeded a little bit, and got the boards on the bottom bed kind of in place. "All" that's left now is fixing the top bed, finishing it off, making, mulching and leafing the bottom bed(s), and putting a new layer of mulch/leaves on the rest of the garden. Oh, and transplanting the raspberries. And weeding everything. Before the snow flies. We'll see how that works. Cheers!
Armed with my leaf bags, cardboard from work, and the prospect of having to weed everything in the spring if I didn't get cracking, I managed to get most of the upper bed filled in with either leaves or mulch. Good thing, too, because something was sending little sproutlings up all over the area. We'll see if I caught them in time. Here's what it looks like now:
Unfortunately, the bottom board fell off of the middle bed there, so I wasn't able to get it completely dug in and leafed/mulched, but that should help immensely! The carrots that you see in the foreground are doing wonderfully, I harvested one row of them today and planted garlic for the spring. Sadly, there was a frost last night, and the tomatoes and peppers are finally dead. I weeded a little bit, and got the boards on the bottom bed kind of in place. "All" that's left now is fixing the top bed, finishing it off, making, mulching and leafing the bottom bed(s), and putting a new layer of mulch/leaves on the rest of the garden. Oh, and transplanting the raspberries. And weeding everything. Before the snow flies. We'll see how that works. Cheers!
