MaryG
September 17th, 2005, 08:42 PM
It's a sad/happy time of the year. Putting the vegetable bed down for the year. Today we pulled up all the pole bean plants (got a small bag of beans), pulled up some tomato plants (got a binful of green ones for relish/sandwich spread), cut down the other tomatoes to let the big ones ripen, picked about 15 cucumbers, picked all the Gravenstein apples and boxed them, pulled up all the squash vines (got about 8 squash for winter use), pulled up enough carrots and turnips for supper.
Now we're turning the soil over and putting on a good layer of compost and will just let it sit for a couple of weeks. It's a good idea to do that so the birds can fly down and eat the insects and grubs and weed seeds. The worms should be OK as they will immediately burrow down deep inside the soil.
Next and last will probably be in early October when we plant next year's garlic.
All in all a good day's work.
Now we're turning the soil over and putting on a good layer of compost and will just let it sit for a couple of weeks. It's a good idea to do that so the birds can fly down and eat the insects and grubs and weed seeds. The worms should be OK as they will immediately burrow down deep inside the soil.
Next and last will probably be in early October when we plant next year's garlic.
All in all a good day's work.