What Did You Do In The Garden?

[digitS']

Do you make beer, @Shades-of-Oregon ? Dad and I used to make beer. "Cascade hops."

The 5 foot wide bed is put to its Winter rest. Double dug, it was loaded with frost-killed tomato plants, cucumber, squash and melon vines, etc.

I continue to be pleased with how the spading has been going. Heavy work but tree roots are no longer a problem. The efforts to remove them in the Spring has paid off.

Steve

 

[flowerbug]

finished up one garden and did not get the front or shed doors painted, but the counter tops and some other things did get varnished by Mom so she'll be happy to have that done.

my own digging was also good today, that back SE corner garden has been amended, had garden debris and turned enough times that it is pretty nice garden soil and it was very easy to get the shovel down in there. i didn't have to dig such a big trench but it was a good 25ft long at least so i took my time and probably had it done in 45 minutes. then packed all the bean plants in it and stepped on them a bit to pre-compact them before shoving the dirt back in there. piled it up on top a bit too, knocked it flat so that any rain it catches will not run off too fast and the raked with the cultivator around it to make it all look tidy enough to pass Mom's inspection.

when i get a chance i can use three or six buckets of wood ashes on that garden, but that may be a week or two yet before i get around to that sort of garden task. i like to get the ashes put down on top and then dig them in the top layer of garden soil to keep them from getting blown away - there's often a fair amount of breeze out there. i don't usually water them in (the hoses get put up about this time of the year) but that would help if i could get it done earlier before i put the hoses away.

 

[Dahlia]

Do you make beer, @Shades-of-Oregon ? Dad and I used to make beer. "Cascade hops."

The 5 foot wide bed is put to its Winter rest. Double dug, it was loaded with frost-killed tomato plants, cucumber, squash and melon vines, etc.

I continue to be pleased with how the spading has been going. Heavy work but tree roots are no longer a problem. The efforts to remove them in the Spring has paid off.

Steve

I never tried making beer, but I have made mead, hard cider, and multiple types of wine. It was fun, but quite time consuming. Especially the part where you have to carefully sanitize all of the bottles at the end. My favorite part of wine making was when the wine is in the glass carboy and bubbling gas out the airlock!

 

[Shades-of-Oregon]

Do you make beer, @Shades-of-Oregon ? Dad and I used to make beer. "Cascade hops."

Steve

No don’t make beer from the hops grown in my garden. Grow them over arches for tall interest effect.

 

[SPedigrees]

I'm too lazy to make mead, but I buy it!

I've been busy the past two days. First I moved an orange solar light from up the steep hill behind the house to down below in the more civilized picnic area. The path to reach it is getting overgrown with brambles that I don't feel like doing battle with, and also a little mini forest of oak trees has sprung up around the shepherd's hook holding the light and I plan to let it grow. The leaves on those young oaks were especially pretty so I picked a few.

This photo from some years ago shows some of our solar lights, and the one that needed moving is the one in the middle, to the right of the others.

Light in its new home.

Oak leaves from the light's former home.

Then I mowed some areas with the string trimmer, and took apart the dead tomato and squash foliage from the raised vegetable bed and retired the tomato cages for winter.

Still have to bring in the windchimes and a few containers from the front porch, and bring in all the solar lights, but the bulk of the autumn tasks are finally done.