1 November

Hello November. Your gray skies,bare trees and warm thoughts of the holiday season ahead. So much to look forward to and we welcome you.

Notes from another season of growing:

The last of the harvest has been brought inside.  Lettuce and celery this week.  Winter Rye was planted and raked into all the beds (they say it helps the soil and controls weeds for the next year.) This Year the tomatoes didn't do great (maybe buy plants next year instead of trying to start seeds indoors....as fun as it was).  We got no peppers and pumpkins or watermelons again (even though the plants were huge).  We got lots of cucumbers even though we planted late (fine to plant from seeds). Potatoes were fun, but not really worth it (since we got tons from the farm).  Next year I'll do beets, celery root (It's so yummy!) We have to start over on our strawberry patch and we're hoping to get a little fruit from our newly planted apple, peach and pear trees.  the CSA definitely helped my gardening vision to see what grows when (and we just signed up for the winter share---YAY!), so yes another year of learning and growing, failing, starting over and succeeding  is on the books and such goes life.