The garden has been winding down – REALLY winding down – in the last week. Our days have been cool & our nights have been cooler – many in the mid-single digits (less than 50°F). As the weather channel put it – it's September but it feels like October. I guess that’s about right, considering we had September weather since early July. We have not had a frost yet, but I’m sure it is just around the corner even though our official last frost date isn’t until October 3rd.
Many of my beds are either done or almost done. I originally thought that I would be planting more fall crops, overwintering spinach, etc., but I have decided to let those ideas go for this year. I still have a ton of general maintenance work to do in the garden - things that I have been meaning to do all summer but never got around to - like moving the rest of the triple mix & mulch from our driveway onto the hill area (where I plan to place a few more raised beds next year).
So on to the garden tour. Firstly there is the small vegetable bed section with 4 raised beds – all new this year. This is where the onions, beans, cucumbers and most of the squash were placed.
The two onion beds are pretty much empty now that the storage onions have been pulled.
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Onion Bed
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All that green is bindweed – my weed nemesis - which requires a whole other discussion, including the reason why I haven't pulled it out yet.