Putting the Beds to Bed

All Tucked in for a Long Winter's Nap

Okay, so I didn't exactly get everyone tucked in today. I did complete the rose bed as you see here. It took a lot of work just to clean it out from both tomato plants and weeds. Then I planted two bulbs of garlic around the front border of both beds. I have no idea what variety it is, but it was free so I'll take it. It is a softneck variety, and it seems to be mild with decent sized cloves. I can't wait to see the little shoots poke up in spring. After planting the garlic, I covered the bed with leaves to build up the soil over winter.

A garlic clove snuggles into its winter bed.

I was able to build up the compost pile quite a bit as well. It's twice as big as it was before. I still have a lot of raking to go as well as porch containers to put away and garden beds to clean up. I'm only planning on putting leaves on the bed that had the brassicas and sweet potatoes this year. That bed will be home to my root vegies next spring. The old bed I'm just going to dig out completely and buy landscape mix to restart it. The newest bed should have had a cover crop this fall, but it will at least get a good dose of compost in the spring.