Success
As we move into fall, I have to start cleaning my garden up a bit. There are a lot of articles circulating right now that encourage you to not clean up your garden for winter but to leave the plants until spring to provide a habitat for pollinators. To me, this sounds like a really good excuse to ignore my garden for the next six months. But in all honesty, I can’t leave it alone. If I wait to clean it up in the spring, it will be my undoing. That’s just too overwhelming for me.
My yearly routine, come fall, is to pull out a few plants at a time over the span of several weeks to budget my garbage can space. I’m sorry, pollinators. You’re welcome to make my yard your winter home, but I’m not leaving any plant carcasses for you. Actually, that's not entirely true. The strawberry plants will still be there, and I usually have to leave the sunflower and cornstalk stumps through the winter because they are too hard to get out while they still have life in them. So there you go, pollinators; you can live in my sunflower stumps.
As we near the end of gardening season, here are some of the successes we celebrate:
We had plenty of zucchini and summer squash!
Here is the first cherry tomato of the year. We successfully grew cherry, roma, and celebrity tomatoes, and just yesterday I found some yellow pear tomatoes I planted from seed and didn't know they actually grew!
We babied this crenshaw melon for months and finally picked it and cut it up for game night. It was a little too ripe, but it was still edible. We're just excited something actually came off the vine!
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