Time To Shut Her Down

It's that time again.  Time to clean out the summer garden and shut her down for the winter. Usually, after cleaning out the spent spring and summer plants, I turn around and plant fall veggies, but this year I am building a new fall and winter garden on the other side of the house that will get more sun during the winter months.

So after cleaning out the beds,  I tilled in cow manure and ammonium sulfate (I'm trying to lower my pH) and then covered everything up with a good layer of pine straw for the winter.  It took two mornings of hard work to go from this....

to this....

and I won't be back in this garden until next spring!!!

Love ya'll,

Shelli

Gardening requires lots of water — most of it in the form of perspiration. 

~Lou Erickson