Backyard Garden Plot Pictures – Week 47 of 52
The strawberry plants we have growing in the wood pallets are still alive and kicking. 🙂 As you can wee, the ones we grew last year in the pallets are nice and green while the ones we transplanted still look like little twigs and are hard to see.
For the most part the backyard garden is coming along nicely. I plan on harvesting beets, carrots and maybe some turnips today for my family as well as a few of my neighbors. I think it will be fun to get outside and get a little gardening done. Even if it is only pulling up vegetables. 🙂
The lasagna garden I started a while back is gaining height. My goal is to have a 12″ raised lasagna bed by spring. In the last few weeks I’ve added leaves and soil from the potato mounds in the side yard. I think if I keep at it I’ll have enough soil to work with.
Every morning I look out the window and the glass on the greenhouse is covered with frost. Luckily the glass clears up around 10 am so the light can shine in and warm up the plants a wee bit. Surprisingly the herbs we have planted along side the greenhouse are still hanging in there.
A view from the back deck.
Last week I was able to dig up a few more potato mounds. I think Lucy and I might dig up a few more today. 
And last but not least, a view of the raspberry canes and blueberry bushes. Some of the leaves on the blueberry bushes are still green but the raspberries? Forget about it. There’s nothing but naked canes left. I keep going back and forth on whether or not I want to transplant the canes to another area in the garden.
I’ve thought about moving them alongside the greenhouse, but I’m not sure.
Any ideas? I know we have a lot of options, but still, it’s hard to figure out where the best spot would be.
How is your garden doing these days? Is it put to bed for the winter? Or are you still harvesting?
Mavis wants to know.
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Jezibels says
We have been having very cold temps here in Chicago (20 as the highs) so mostly everything is not growing and in a state of frozen. I need to go out and put up the row covers over the lettuce and a few other things. Im pretty sure the kale is still ok but its too cold to go out there and check it, dangerously abnormally cold.
Cynthia Skelton says
Most of the garden is done for the year. I still have carrots, beets and radishes growing outdoors, albeit very slowly. I don’t know if I’ll get much more before a hard freeze comes along. I figure, worst case scenario I dig the dead plants into the bed and call it fertilizer.
I also have lettuce and spinach growing indoors. I’ve had one nice salad from it so far. Planning on planting some more pots soon. I also dug up a couple of pepper plants and am overwintering them indoors. Hopefully they survive and give me a bumper crop next year.
Knitting with Olof says
Have a question for you. How old were your ameraucanas when they started laying. I have a 7 month old that still hasn’t given me an egg.
Laura says
What’s wrong with where the raspberries are now? They look like they’re in a great place, out of the way. Visualize how leggy they get. Do you really want that mess near the greenhouse! Do you really want the extra work of moving them? They probably have a lot of new canes you could start a new bed with. Or, give them away for Christmas presents! I got my canes free. They still have leaves, but red ones. My blueberries are nearly bare though.