I follow the de-structions for pictures. They are uploaded to blogger. I click 'add selected' and a circle appears that changes colors for an extended period of time. At this point, I can't click cancel, I can't close the window. So nope, cant figure out how to embed pictures.
Next year is going to see some changes for the garden. I am adding 2 crops, and moving where I typically grow tomatoes. I have a roughly 6x2 foot bed in the front of the trailer with great SSW exposure. For the last 3 seasons our maters have thrived there, and as they are one of the things we eat the most they are critical to our food budget. This last season we still had a decent showing for such a small bed (about 20ish quarts of various tomato products) but they had blight and some sort of tomato specific worm found them. It's long past time I rotated crops anyway. So next season they are going to the back bed, which my father built for us out of an old bed frame. It's a deeper bed with more space so we shall see. In the front bed is where I will put my onions. I think they shall like all the sun. And where the onions were in the back (a shallow 4x4 bed with southern exposure but which ends up shaded by the neighbors trailer by around 4pm) I have planted garlic .
Garlic. We use a ton of it and I prefer it fresh. I have never attempted to grow it before. A quick google search and in Mid October I grabbed some sprouting bulbs from my Tupperware drawers and off to the yard I went. The sprouts are 3 inches tall now and despite several hard frosts and snow they are still green and seem to be slowly gaining height. Apparently it's not unheard of for garlic to grow throughout winter even as far north as Canada. I love garden experimenting. I hear that harvest time will be late summer. I plan to store them in braids the same way I keep onions.
The other new crop I am adding is.....rutabagas. My grandma loves them and I am hoping to be able to give her one that I grew.
The carrots I left in the bed for seeds next year, (another thing I've never done before) are huge. The greens still green and growing. I should probably mulch them before a big snow. Another experiment I know nothing about.
For now I am going to cuddle up with BOTSO and SOTSO who are watching 'Where the Wild Things Are.' Watching is used loosely. What they are actually doing is picking at each other and climbing, jumping and screaming. I think I know where the wild things are. They are on my couch. It's going to be a long day.
