The Garden - Putting Some Boxes to Bed

Putting Some Boxes to Bed, Watering and Winterizing Others

Some of the beds are done for this year so we have pulled up the dead plants, turned the soil lightly and put a layer of straw mulch over the top.  Hopefully, this will keep the weeds down and keep the moisture in for the worms and other organisms that condition the soil. 

Other boxes have vegetables that we will try to over-winter with covers, and for the first time this year, incandescent light bulbs.  The box above contains kale and leeks.

The box above has mustard greens and we transplanted two little rosmary plants into the far end of the box.  They don't show in the photo, but this is the first year I have gotten rosemary to grow in the summertime here  and I am hoping to hold it over through the winter so that it can get big enough to harvest next year. 

The box above contains swiss chard, beets and spinach.  We will harvest the beets and try to over-winter the chard and spinach.

Above are little cabbages that we hope to have through the winter.  Below are onions that we will dig before the next killing frost. 

Below are our carrots and parsnips which will also be dug up before the next killing frost.  I knock the dirt off the parsnips and freeze them in the freezer though, because freezing is said to make them sweeter.  I tried leaving them in the ground to freeze one year, but the problem was we couldn't dig them up when we wanted them because the ground was frozen.