it's been two weeks since i got to the garden on my appointed day...i worked last sunday and then went home and stained my deck...i know...excuses excuses...well...the asparagus isn't ready to cut back yet and the rest of the garden is pretty dormant...so that left my bed...
the alfalfa is perennial and it stays...however there was shattered maize...a dead tomato...a finished pepper...some spuds..and some robustly blooming native plant to take care of...
which i did...
gathering a handful of elmer's blue fingerling spuds...
i know it is a bit late to be sowing cover crops...however the weather forecast seems favorable to all the cool weather germinating sweet clover...
legumes ( hairy vetch and yellow peas with a shot of rye grass )...
and winter wheat i put in and thoroughly watered using a gallon jug since the hose was disconnected...
the clover and winter wheat i had sown in a couple of weeks ago is filling in so we will see how the cover crops do...i can always add compost in spring...this is the end of a mediocre season...with the exception of mature seed from the zea mays mexicana it was nothing much to write home ( or blog ) about...i foresee another mediocre season next year as well..there will be no spuds so it will be standard garden stuff ( with, perhaps, the exception of some spring wheat...ancient emmer or einkorn seem like good candidates )...the maize hill will be pure compost however...i will not tolerate stunted corn again next season...this, of course, dependent on climate and its offspring weather...bumper crop or disaster we will see what happens...next up, putting the asparagus to bed fro winter...sometime early next month.
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