Much like a cabin or RV, the garden needs to be winterized. There are bins to hose out, equipment to be sorted and cleaned, hoses to be rolled up, and mounds of compost to be turned. Here we see Emily and our buddies Sleep and Allyson working over this year’s pile. It smells nice and earthy, which is a good sign that things are progressing as they should. Once it’s turned, there’s a tarp to throw on top to keep most of the rain out, and then it’s ready for a long winter’s nap.
We also brought in the remaining pumpkins and squashes from the field. We did pretty well this year, though we forgot to weigh everything in all the confusion of the farm buying/ remodeling. But the “leftovers” alone look like a pretty big pile. And those green pumpkins are supposed to be like that, they are a variety called “triamble” that is weird, lobated, green, and has good keeping qualities. The butternut squash in the back is supposed to keep well too, and we’re happy to get some this year, because the last two years were a bust and we were going to give up planting it.
