Sunday, October 14, 2012

October garden update part II - The Teardown

It was sort of sad at first to remove the tomato stands and see all the green ones still left on the vine, unsung heroes, their full potential not met due to lack of sun, water or the gardeners own foibles. I did plant a couple of them too close and I should have  used taller stands. I have ideas for next year, lessons learned!
Now that the veggie garden is cleared I have a couple pounds of mostly ripe indigo rose tomatoes, a decent # of cherry. Some assorted peppers, one rogue lemon cuke and a few baby zucchinis. I tossed the fennel, not a fan. Made some thrown together sauce with that which will be freezed. frozen? froze.

Per the pix below i have ripped the dickens out of the garden, laid down 4 bags of Steer Plus (TM)  and mixed that in good. I performed a tomato stomping dance on the refugee tomatoes and blended that in too. Then planted favas in the areas indicated. I'm going to plant garlic all around the rhubarb tomorrow-ish. Then, we'll see what takes place. Favas have proven to be easy to grow, great for the soil and interesting looking during the blah winter months.




Thursday, October 11, 2012

Mid-October Garden update

Mid October garden update link below. I'm planning to tear it up tomorrow...it's going to be rainy out (i hope) and I am really looking forward to digging in the dirt (cue my next blog update song!!). quick, raw and dirty here it is...the end of the season:

http://youtu.be/12XeBNOFd4o