It was a beautiful warm day today, and we decided to get one of the 3 garden areas ready for winter. That is always a big job! We spent an hour taking away tomato cages, untying things, removing marker stakes, and wires and anything else that didn't belong there. Then Harold got out the Lo-Boy tractor and just mowed the whole thing. Another day we will remove the brush hog mowing attachment, and put on the tiller attachment and just turn everything under. No need to remove old cabbages or tomatoes or squash - it will all get composted over the winter easily by getting chopped up now. We have two other garden areas to do yet, but the weather is supposed to hold for the remainder of the week. We won't have many warm days like these! I have already planted my garlic in the greenhouse like I did last year, and it is covered with straw for the winter. Next spring it will come up and grow through the straw, and that's when I remove the straw covering.
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| Harold starts to mow everything down. You can see split cabbages and tall plants in the background. No problem for the powerful brush hog attachment! |
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| What a difference! Almost done. |
Here in northern Minnesota our trees have shed their leaves over a month ago. Everything is brown and dry and dead. When we were in Indiana last weekend, the trees were in peak colors. It was nice to enjoy the fall colors there, because we sure have short-lived fall colors up here!!
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| This is the view from my living room window. I will be looking at these dry plants and trees until the snows start - which will probably be very soon! |
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