Under the Snow...

....there's some spinach!


I planted the fall harvest on September 13. It was December 17 when I decided to dig the spinach out from under the snow and use most of the basil left on the basil bush to make a spinach/basil pasta salad. I like knowing that my lunches this week come from the garden!

I also picked a radish . The last time I tried to pick a radish plant there were just roots and no radish bulb. I will check the radishes again in January.

Winter in the Garden

The first big snow in the valley. The fall crop is buried.

Fall Planting Update

On September 13 I planted some radishes, beets and spinach. Before I left on my trip six weeks later, here is what my box and plants looked like:


Things were not quite growing like the first round in May and June. I returned after nine days to see my radishes were bigger and the oats started sprouting.


I pulled a radish plant that looked quite large, but no red radish was attached. I will look again in a few days to see if there is more growth.

Snow!

I am glad I took the green tomatoes off the vine on Friday! We had our first snow in the garden yesterday morning. Clint took the picture----I was busy at meetings in the morning. The west side received the snow---no snow on my grass yet!

Empty Garden

Frost may be coming this weekend, especially on Monday. I decided to remove the pepper and tomato plants yesterday during my lunch break. The garden looks like the picture I took on May 7 (24 weeks ago!).


It is a sad time....I enjoyed my daily breaks from the computer. A fellow gardener told me it is just the cycle of life. We were blessed with a long warmer autumn. I look forward to the spring after a winter of reading and knitting!

One thing that amazed me is how many tomatoes one plant can give me! Here are all the green tomatoes that were hidden in the tomato bush as I slowly took it apart for the compost area.


The plant gave me a bushel of tomatoes!


I will continue to blog. There is still an autumn crop in the box....and I have a friend who is trying a cold frame this winter. I can always dream about the spring!

The Garden is Smaller

The basil bush is in the house, and the cucumber and zucchini plants are in the compost pile. There is only the tomato bush, pepper plants and the fall harvest. I planted some oats two days ago.

Harvest Party

Scarecrows visited the garden this beautiful fall morning.


Students stopped by to paint pumpkins and see the garden.



I thanked my zucchini plant for all it produced and pulled it out to join the other composting plants. I "sowed some oats" to bring nutrients back to the soil.