xan's Wagon Wheel garden

More fall clean up today, not so much because of stuff that really needed to get done, as because it is 70 degrees and sunny outside. Incredible. This extended nice weather is going to result in the cleanest, most prepped winter garden in years. Swept off the porch and put away most of the rema...

Despite gloomy forecasts, it was sunny and 60 today, so I was able to get out into the garden and some of that end-of-year work that’s been nagging. Emptied out the rain gauge, which had 3" in it— that’s about the last 8 or 10 days of rain. Yikes. Glad we’re not clo...

Prepped the Wagon Wheel for winter, including mapping out the paths for next spring; and planted the garlic. We should now have room for three wheelbarrows full of expanded pond (I hope). Legume/pod crops will go in the outer ring, toms/eggs/peppers in the middle companion planted with onions a...

Went to pull the larger of the two “ripe” cabbages, and eeewwww, infested with slugs and earwigs. Took a picture, but you don’t want to see it. So I pulled the second smaller one as well, it’s lovely, as you can see. A meals worth and then some of Blue Lakes; the first p...