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Monday, October 06, 2003
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It has been really cold here (some areas already had frosts), so I tried to start "closing up" the garden this past weekend. The willow fence I bought about a year and a half ago completely fell apart this season. It looked really cool, it just didn't last as long as I thought it would. Live and learn! So, I took the rest of the broken fence pieces out of the garden and also pulled up a ton of weeds. I still have a lot to do in that department. These weird prickly weeds took over about 1/4 of the garden plot this year. It was really annoying!
I also pullled everything out of the 2 raised beds in the back and had Jason dump all the grass clippings from the bottom of the yard on them. I'll add leaves later and that should really help improve the soil for next year. I still have some of my sorry tomatoes in the first 2 beds, but nothing is really happening there. Almost all of my tomatoes this year were ruined by disease, animals, or something else. It really sucked! I missed all the BLTs I could have had!
I pulled up all of my pepper plants and hung them upside down over the laundry room sink. I read that the peppers would continue to ripen this way. I did get a pretty good hot pepper crop this year (I have a lot in the freezer), but the bell peppers barely produced anything.
The good thing is, I learned a lot this year and I'm already thinking about next spring!
Posted by Yvette at 10/06/2003 09:50:00 PM
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