Monday, October 15, 2007

Wintering the Garden

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower. ~Albert Camus

The two sycamore trees in my neighbor yard are dropping leaves like crazy. I had a chance Sunday to run the Billy Goat. I love that thing it does a really nice job of chopping up the leaves which leaves them perfect for the compost pile. I will easily be able to fill my new raised bed Next Spring. I think I am going to plant a cover crop in the areas of the garden are not raised beds. My Mom agreed to take my three small Hibiscus plants. She has great windows in the living room and I hope the plants stay in good enough shape to flower next year.

I am gonna try and bring my hot pepper plants in again. I didn't have success last year but the first year it was so great to have hot peppers in the first week in June I can resist.



The plants look really good this year so I have hope. They also produced a ton of late season peppers that are gonna be awesome in chili for the Monday night football game.


I also planted 8 x 4" Pansies in the front yard. Picture to follow.

I broke my cheapo camera so I haven't blogged in a while. I am gonna try and keep up with it more now. I have a bunch of wintering and projects I have to do so I will try and keep up.