The big thing was to make a begin on the greenhouse. We need to remove all of the soil in there and replace it with a mixture of garden soil, our compost and well-rotted stall manure. It is a heavy and back-breaking work. We left the peppers standing for a time yet. In this next foto you can see the opposite side. It reflects how the left side looked before we cleaned it up. Then the last of the outside trial toms. I just cut he stems off in a “Y” form so that I could just hang them over the crossbar there. I did not hang the entire plant up because there were too few toms to ripen. We piled more plant stems on another bed as mulch. Then finally the sprouts. The first Brussels sprout harvest. These sprouts look yellowish, but that is the overhead lighting. Some will be for freezing-in and the rest we shall eat for supper tonight along with spuds and and bratwurst. Have you guys begun with your winterising?
You are amazing, all the heavy work you do and all the veggies you grow. Goes to show hard work pays off. Now I'm hungry! Nope, I haven't even gotten past summerising. I'm approximately four months behind on everything.
Nope !! Not me ! If it grows fine and if iit doesn`t I will plant something else ! No sense stressing about it !
We are keeping an eye on the leaves falling. There will be some leaf mould to make again this year. At the moment there are more leaves staying on the trees than laying on the ground, so it will keep for another week or two - then it'll be all systems go with the sweeper.
Yes leaf mould. That’s an important part of my soil amendment task each year. Over here leaves on trees and garden flowering plants are still green because of the weather. We get our leaves from the apartment building in which we live. We here, have all sorts of little groups that maintain this or that during the course of the year. We get the leaves from the work group that sweeps them up. They were happy that they did not have to find a way to get rid of them, and we could use them to make leaf mould. Everyone happy.
Our fall tasks so far have been mowing grass, planting garlic, watering the tomatoes, peppers, and lettuce. Our leaves are still clinging to the trees, and the leaves are so small they are impossible to rake. We just mow over them and let them improve the grass. Actually, ours are not "tasks" at all since we rather enjoy doing them!
I’m with you Jane— it is pleasurable, just heavy graft. Actually, I do not know exactly what the bet word is which doesn’t imply unpleasant work. Over here we indicate that by giving a word a diminutive form (je or tje). So for instance, as a kid, you go from door to door, ring the bell and when the old lady appears you say, “een heitje voor een karweitje?”. This means a little job for a quarter? So, maybe the word, “job” would have been better.
well, so far I have harvested everything outside... except for the last stand of beans. they just really went to waste. too much to do with the passing of my dear MIL. it just didn't happen. I have all the tomato cages stacked from one row. another needs pulled and stacked the peppers need pulled the tomatoes in the high tunnel.... I haven't even started on as they are still producing tomatoes but there are plenty that aren't. just too much work to work around the live ones. all the plastic still isn't pulled and recycled, but we got the little pond dipped and cleaned out so it doesn't overflow anytime soon. that is disastrous when that happens as it also goes through the garden. picked up all the black walnuts one day. cripes! we shoveled and raked TWO skid steer buckets full and dumped them in the wood. I have never seen so many in my entire life as what there is this year.
Got some Bridgwater beans to dry out, maybe get one more courgette and a few peppers. A few tomatoes still ripening but the blight is getting some of them. Some of the garlic bulbils I sowed earlier have come up
