It is the beginning of September and my end of summer garden clean up is underway.
I happily pulled up all the Seminole pumpkin vines. I managed to haul in my huge harvest (not) of three little pumpkins. Two of them have holes from something trying to bore in.
I’m so over the vines that right now, I am planning to grow nothing next year that vines!
General Summer Grow Box Cleanup
In general my cleanup activities include cutting down old flowers (Zinnias) and cutting back any tropical milkweed. This year I have four native swamp milkweed plants for the butterflies. And the butterflies (Monarchs) are still here.
The grow boxes are being readied for planting. I will use them mostly for growing greens. I can’t wait for fresh greens!
A couple of boxes are holding plants that will remain. Sorrel is growing around this Big Jim (not really very big) pepper plant. I don’t have luck growing peppers, so I expect this one will die sometime soon.
Sorrel is a perennial here and I planted these last year some time. It is a great addition to a salad, but is a bit too tangy to eat alone.
Green beans have been planted and are growing like mad. It’s early for them, but I had a packet from last year, so I figured, why not? Even if they don’t give me beans, they will enrich the soil with nitrogen.
The compost has been cooking and I will have some to add to the new beds. After I pulled the sweet potatoes, I did mix in some of my compost containing earthworms.
Clean up for me means making space for new seeds to be sown. It is still very hot here, so I can’t spend a lot of time working in the yard. Mainly, I need my boxes ready for seeds. And I am planting some things earlier this year to see what happens.
Happy Fall everyone! Wish I was in New England where Fall is wonderful.
Photos from where I lived
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