Out with the Old, in with the New: Winter Garden

Despite what the weather is doing right now (acting as if it is summer) my calendar confirms that Autumn is in full swing…  Since that is the case and my garden hasn’t produced much in the last few weeks I spent half an hour last week tearing everything out…  It looked something like this:

The evicted plants looked like this:

Once the old garden was out the soil had to be turned over and new nutrients put into it.  We have a composter and after about a year of use it’s actually produced some compost and that went into the garden:

Once the bed was prepared we had to get the plants put in.  This is our first time with a winter garden so we didn’t have any experience to build on, so we looked at the winter crops we enjoyed eating and bought a little of everything:  cabbage, cauliflower, carrots, spinach, chard, lettuce, celery, onions, arugula, and bok choy.

When everything was put in (including the slug traps and the cages over the seeds (arugula and carrots) it looked like this:

If the winter garden is a productive as the summer one I’ll consider this year of gardening a smashing success!

Author: Jonathon

Would rather be out swimming, running, or camping. Works in state government. Spent a youth reading genre-fiction; today, he is making up for it by reading large quantities of non-fiction literature. The fact that truth, in every way, is more fascinating than fiction still tickles him. View all posts by Jonathon