Backyard Garden Plot Pictures – Week 40 of 52
Yesterday I spent about 8 hours in the garden trimming hedges, pulling up spent tomato plants and basically cleaning up the garden beds. It looks pretty bare out there now, but hopefully I’ll be able to get a few more fall vegetables planted before it’s too late.
All that’s left along the fenceline is Swiss chard.
5 of the 6 pallet gardens have strawberries planted in them. I went ahead and pulled up the beans {they were suppose to be dried beans} and try planting them a little earlier next year.
The bean tepees were taken down. 🙁 The poles themselves were pretty brittle so I tossed them in the back woods and will make some new ones next year for my pole beans.
There’s Lucy the photo bomb dog. The tomatoes are still sputtering along in the greenhouse and the cabbage growing nearby is doing well.
Believe it our not I cleaned out the chicken coop/run last week. Now all I need to do is get the chicken wire over the top of the run and get some garden boxes made. The Swiss chard and kale plants are hanging in there.
The Girl had some peeps over on Saturday night and they picked a few pumpkins. Lucy and I will pick the rest of them this week.
And last but not least, the raspberry patch. I’m hoping to weed between the rows this week and trim the canes back as well.
It’s been busy around here lately, but I’m still having fun. And in the end, no matter how much I grow, I think enjoying what I do is the most important thing.
Peace Out Girl Scouts,
Mavis
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Dawn says
I did raspberries and blackberries this weekend. They look so much better now. It was looking like a jungle on the side of my house. Now it looks like a much more respectable jungle!
Betty AD says
MAVIS and others….love getting the emails of garden and what ever you decide to work with as Im learning as you go…brings back memories when growing up…. well wanted to show you someone else thats working with potatoe’s…she lives in Fl….and also has a recipe book out…and does asian type cooking. She has some good videos and recipe that might come in handy with those vegetable. Thought you and others might want to check her out…also….she trying growing the potatoe’s in barrels……and will give the results……got a nice video today with Smoked Duck with Chinese Steamed Buns….amazing how she did them….I got the curling green onions from her site….and now want to do the onion oil………..MAVIS….here is the link to her site……..
http://www.steamykitchen.com/28644-our-aquaponic-potatoes-in-a-barrel-experiment.html