The last few days I’ve been working on getting the garden area cleaned up. There were some things that were hard for me to do so Vince helped out a bit.
The bed on the left with all the green flopping stalks is asparagus. Once it all turns brown, I’ll cut it back. Vince is going to build me a “fence” of sorts. Basically put posts in the four corners and probably in the middle of the two 8′ sides, then put up a few boards to keep those stalks contained. They flop when they get old and then I can’t walk between that bed and the greenhouse on the left or the other bed on the right, which means I can’t weed whack those areas and they grow up to be a jungle so I’m hoping my fence idea helps a lot.
The sad looking plants in the middle of the back row are horseradish. They look bad this time of year pretty much no matter what I do. The roots are fine. I’ll leave those til we have a hard frost, then I’ll dig up whatever horseradish I want to use over the next year, put heavy mulch over whatever I leave in the ground and it all starts over again in the spring.
I dumped all the empty grow bags, added compost and composted cow manure and used that soil to top off the raised beds.
Today I planted four 4′ rows of cabbage in one of the raised beds. I planted a fast growing cabbage and I can cover the rows if we’re going to have a hard frost before the cabbage isn’t ready to be harvested. I planted 6 grow bags with a slower growing cabbage. I can bring those into the greenhouse on the coldest nights.
In one of the long beds, I planted lettuce, kale and collards.
I’m so ready for fall and winter!
Paula Nordt says
We were so excited today because the temperature only reached a high of 98! Still no rain, and we have cracks 3-4”wide and over 36” deep, but oh my, that 98 felt so good!
Joyce says
My father had a wire fence around his asparagus. It was metal fence posts on the corners and then a couple rows of heavy wire (almost like clothesline wire) just to keep it all from falling over into the yard. You could still easily get to all the asparagus in the spring since the first line of wire was a couple of feet off the ground.
Susan Nixon says
It does look like you are emotionally ready, and physically, too, judging by that picture. What fun garden produce still to come!
judy.blog@gmail.com says
I am ready for cooler temps and a break from the canner/freeze dryer. I’m thankful that I love to can and that I have the freeze dryer. Today I canned pears from a neighbor’s tree and loaded the freeze dryer with okra and basil. I would never stop freeze drying it as long as it’s still producing but . . I’m ready to get up, cook breakfast, sit and knit or cross stitch til time to start the next meal.