summer time and the watermelon is sweet!

after a fruitful summer of tomatoes, cucumbers, greens, beans, and lots and lots of berries. we are finally singing our garden goodnight. but first we have more of our home grown watermelon to eat! yum!

                                         

as october blows the oak leaves in our hair and the cold brings us indoors, we are getting ready to do our annual sheet mulch and clover cover crop. we also will be planting two new fruit trees to accompany our lonely little apple tree!

it sure is fun to play in the garden! see you next time!

november: squash o-lanterns, squash stamps and a whole lotta painting!

After our large and very climactic squash harvest, we celebrated by making our very own squash-o-lanterns which we had a blast carving, stamping and painting. Benny our beloved butternut has yet to be cooked... it is emotional to cook up such a loved friend... in time, in time.

Now, as the air grows colder and our first snows falling, we have been quickly mulching the beds, planting garlic, and doing our annual winter time sheet mulch : a layer of cardboard followed by layers of newspaper, leaf mulch, food scraps, more leaf mulch, and composted soil. Once the beds are tucked in asleep for the winter, we can look forward to some rich healthy soil and a nice crop of garlic come spring!