The Last Harvest Of The 2010 Garden

We're putting our Sleepyhouse garden to bed for the winter. Except for plans to plant garlic bulbs in a few weeks, we'll be covering up the square foot garden beds. Today we picked the last of the produce, pulled up stakes and rolled up rabbit fencing.

The potato pot experiment did not yield us too many spuds, but the ones we did end up with are creamy white. Next year either we'll try the fabric pots designed for this purpose rather than using plastic pots, or we'll till potato hills. We did notice an abundance of worms in the pots, so they were happy.

I'm sorry to say it, but I think after two years of trying to grow melons, next year we'll scrap those plans. We just don't get a hot and humid enough summer in our zone.

We'll grow carrots again, but we'll be better at spreading them out. These carrots were designed to be short, but we over crowded them.

Along with the garlic, I want to grow onions. We made and canned some great salsa with our tomatoes, but I had to buy garlic and onions to add to the recipe.

The sugar snap peas were like candy. These will always have a place in our garden, although they are a spring and early fall crop only.

Our butternut squash did not do as well as last year when we grew them vertically. Next year, perhaps we'll try that technique once again.

I'll have to make room for zucchini and scrap plans for broccoli. Our broccoli never made it to the stage where we could actually harvest it.

I want to grow more medicinal herbs too.

One of the square foot beds must have been hit by my neighbor's riding lawn mower. Its off center and too heavy to move back into place. I'll just have to get over my symmetry hang up and live with it this way. We do plan on mulching around the beds rather than trying to keep up with mowing next year. I have a neighbor who did this and it does make your garden look much better.

Although it leaves me a little sad to see the end of the growing season, planning for next  year is fun!