Putting the garden to bed for the winter

October 2, 2012

Putting the garden to bed for the winter.

 

It is that time of the year...

Frost is on the horizon and we know that

the rest of the garden will fall.

Actually mine already fell a few weeks back when

we had an overnight frost.. just one night but it

did it's job. We harvest what we had left.

 

I had two tomato plants I babied, trying to get the

tomatoes to redden up.. Finally gave up on it. And

I picked them all, put them in boxes to ripen if they will.

 

Next year we are going to try a new way of gardening. We

will keep our raised beds. But I shoved out last week,

about 4 inches of the old dirt. I laid down newspaper and

laid compost about 3 inches thick on top of that. Next will

be wood chips. But need to find the right kind of wood.

Cedar and Alder are a no no...

 

Looking forward to this new type.. as it is suppose to

be less watering.. and also plants (vegetables) are

suppose to come out cleaner. And they say..no weeds,

but that remains to be seen.  So have it almost set

up and then let the winter have the garden…and see

what results we have next year.

 

These tomatoes look more like Halloween candy...