So I just realized that I haven’t posted here in over two months. Whoopsies. Time just got away from me.
My last post was about changes I’ve made in the kitchen garden. The yard and garden have consumed a lot of my time this fall. A lot of people think of gardening as a spring and summer thing, but I’m out in the yard working on some project or the other nine months of the year. And we definitely got three seasons of veggies out of our kitchen garden.
All that’s left in the kitchen garden at this point is herbs and fall vegetables. I planted lettuce, which we’ve been eating in salads for weeks. I also planted cauliflower and expect to start harvesting that in a week or two. The broccoli is probably going to be a bust, as some insect has nibbled it nearly to death.
Looking back at our summer veggies, I’m incredibly disappointed in how our tomatoes did. I attribute it to our piss-poor garden soil, because those plants were watered, weeded, watered, mulch, and practically mollycoddled from planting to first frost. I had hauled in bags and bags of good dirt and mulch, but apparently that wasn’t good enough. We have two compost bins in the yard and I’ve been adding as much organic material to those as I can scrounge up With any luck, we’ll have lots of compost in the spring that I can use to amend the kitchen garden.
I’ve also been laying down landscaping paper and thick layers of mulch in those places that I want to turn into flower beds next spring. By doing it now, I’m giving Mother Nature a chance to kill the grass under the landscaping paper and for the mulch to break down and mix in with the dirt underneath. It will definitely make my job a lot easier next spring!
I’ve also been making slow but steady progress in the front yard. I’ve mulched all the way up to the front porch, under the porch, and along the foundation in the front and along the side. I also planted a ground cover around the porch and hope that it will spread and fill in quickly.
I still haven’t posted photos of the new shed, have I? I’ll try to get to that soon.
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