Goodnight Garden

It amazes me, how quickly the leaves change from green to colorful to ground. The garden goes from productive to slimy leaves overnight. We had so much fun in our garden this year. We're still having fun prepping for winter and pulling the last bits of turnips and onions from the ground. It's November and work is still happening. We've been closing the garden down the past few weeks. We have lots more work to do, but are fine with stopping our work and moving onto winterizing the animals and playing inside.

 

While the grass was green and the leaves brown, we were able to pull sweet potatoes,

 

white potatoes, and

pumpkins from the garden.

There were beautiful bell peppers growing and enjoying the cool air.

We gathered leaves

and smelled the flowers, one last time.......

before, it was time to rake and put the garden to bed. We like to deep mulch our garden to help prevent weeds from growing and to keep the ground warm as spring rolls around again.

That was a few weeks ago. Today looks quite different. The peppers are wilted - the flowers soggy. We've picked the last of our veggies.

We will continue to cover the raised beds and ground beds with leaves, straw, haw, manure, and any other compost material we can find. The corn bed will be tilled and manure spread. The tools will be put away and the focus moved to the barnyard. We had a lovely garden season. I'm happy to put it away.....

and start focusing on organizing seeds and making our list for the next planting season. I'm excited to look over how much we planted and what we were able to store and freeze.

Goodnight garden, until next year.