Putting The Garden To Bed for the last two projects on my gardening list for this year was to plant the garlic in the kitchen garden and to get the daffodil bulbs planted out front somewhere.
It was such a nice day though, I ended up spending more time outside than I had planned. Which was a good thing… because I found a few more outdoor projects for the HH to handle before the place becomes a frozen tundra. 🙂
Lucy was outside with me and when I noticed her digging furiously in a corner, I went over to investigate.
More potatoes! Well done Lucy!
I love when that happens.
I also picked the last head of romaine.
And found a few more nubby carrots for Lucy as well.
The only thing left in the garden to harvest now is parsnips. And those won’t be ready to pull until closer to Thanksgiving.
Garden clean up {at least my chores anyway} are done for the season. And I couldn’t be happier about that.
And while I know it will be nice to take a few months off from gardening, I also know I’ll be itching to get started again right after the holidays.
But for now, I plan to spend my time hooking and baking my way through the next few months.
How about YOU? Have you tried Putting The Garden To Bed for the season?
~Mavis
Julie says
Yes, my garden has pretty much been put to rest for the season too. I just this week covered my strawberries with garden leaves. I do have fall carrots that are still in the ground as they were not ready to harvest at the expected time. I’m not sure what will be happening there. I’m working on a needlepoint project now. I’m forcing myself to finish old craft projects this winter or get rid if the projects.
Wendy C says
Our garden is done except for the turnip greens which will last for several more weeks at least here in Alabama.
Jennifer says
Pulling my tomatoes and planting garlic this weekend then I will be done too.
Diana says
Live near San Diego so I garden all year. Pulling up sweet potatoes today. Still harvesting pomegranates, mangoes, dragon fruit, lots of citrus, and tons of greens. The tomatoes and eggplants are still producing too. We eat fresh from the garden year round!
Margo says
Nope, my garden is just waking up. Here in So. California I cut back my garden except for the few plants that like a lot of heat, and if I can provide a bit of shade for them. I’m currently raising red chard, garlic, beets, onions, scallions, collards, peas, and carrots. Have lots more greens to start. Had to replant my radishes,though. They were popping up when I left for a week, and when I came back the tender sprouts had all been nibbled off. I do enjoy being able to garden most of the year, but love the “nesting” feeling of a cool rainy day. No rain yet this season, but I have been doing some canning and have a quilt to sew before Christmas. Loving the cooler temps right now, feels like fall, just not quite as beautiful as your New England fall.
Diana says
Here in GA, it’s still warm enough to do some gardening.
My broccoli and cabbage are up and going.
It’s time to harvest the sweet potatoes.
I have snap and shelling peas growing and flowering.
I still have one rogue cherry tomato plant (self seeded) that is lush and still producing. I go outside every couple of days and pick a couple of pockets full. Until we get a hard frost, I imagine it’ll keep going, lol.
I have green beans growing in my railing planters that still have beans growing on them.
I started my dwarf tomato plants indoors and they’re all up with 2nd sets of leaves already.
Most of my potato crop from earlier in the year was a bust, but the small potatoes I did harvest are already sprouting. I’ve brought in several 3gal nursery pots and intend to plant a bunch of them and see what I get.
Of my potted citrus trees, only the lemon and mandarin orange had fruit this year and they’re beginning to ripen.
I have a pot, indoors, that I’m going to try growing carrots in.
My sunroom is looking quite bright, lately, with all of the grow lights I have on, lol. I imagine at some point I won’t need to go outdoors to do work in the garden. Don’t know when, tho, as the weather forecast doesn’t have anything close to freezing weather coming until the end of November.
Susan H. says
Here in Ohio I am just about finished cleaning up my garden. I pulled up tomato vines and took my herbs from their pots and put them in the ground for the winter. A table in the basement is covered with green tomatoes. Pots emptied and turned over or stacked. The leaf lettuce is still going. Don’t you love going into the garden this time of year and finding little surprises?
Debi says
Here in northern NY our gardens are all settled in for winter except for the carrots. A couple of weeks before I pull them. Garlic is planted and everything is under a nice thick blanket of mulch.
Laura Brown says
I need to pick up our garden area. I let it lay fallow this year – the ground was compacted so hard the year before, I thought it might be a good idea to just leave it. I need to weed around the strawberry plants in spring, and maybe get a fence up for it and fix the yard fence this winter (we live in GA and usually have mild winters). I have a few other yard things too. I just wish I wasn’t allergic to so many outdoor things!
Melissa says
Here in SoCal my HH is planting 2 kinds of beets, 3 kinds of broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, lettuce, and onions from seedlings he planted weeks ago. I harvested yellow squash and Asian chives today for a Korean veggie pancake (jeon) and made beet kvass. Our latest crop of green beans is producing. We’re harvesting the last of the glass gem decorative corn and red popcorn. We’ll dig up sweet potatoes for Thanksgiving. My husband plants sweet peas for me every November for spring bouquets.
Sue D says
Garden is pretty much put to bed. I have some parsnips that will wait until late November to pull. Planted garlic a couple of weeks ago; may plant some more tomorrow. Almost all the pots are empty, folded, and put away until early spring. Need to bring the rosemary plant in soon. It usually does well in the solarium over winter.
Maria says
Middle of Wisconsin gardening season is over. Beds got cleaned out earlier this month and I miss having flowers to cut and bring inside. Everything else was prepped and frozen for winter eating! Already looking forward to next spring!
Jessica says
Washington here, getting tomatoes picked and roasted plus garden beds cleared and prepped for winter this weekend. The squash are goners as of a few chilly days ago.