In the middle of the growing season, our garden looked like this.
Yesterday, we put the garden to bed for the season. We pulled up all the old plants, saved the last of the fruits and vegetables, and plowed everything under. We had some fun making a garden salad. You take all the unripe plants and put them in the food processor, vines stalks and all and make this huge salad. I even made a pesto and cilantro relish with just a touch of rotten apples. Of course you have to have an eight horsepower food processor (chipper shredder) to make this work. Next year we will have lovely compost to help the rest of our garden grow.
All we have left is our little English garden with our Brussell Sprout trees and our red cabbage. I'll probably have to scare off Peter Rabbit to protect the last of this year's crop. This has been a productive year for our garden. We are just finishing off our last melon, and we have the squash and potatoes all stored in the fruit room. It looks like Janene will get one more batch of chili sauce out of the tomatoes and peppers that are ripening in the basement. We have really enjoyed growing our own food and having enough extra to share with our family and friends.
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Oh, how fun that chipper/shredder is. I just had to lay all my stuff out in the garden and hope it rots enough in time to till it in come Spring. Yes, you had a lovely garden. Now what will you do for exercise?
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