Less than 2 weeks till Halloween

The gardening season is almost over. Most mornings we wake up to frost -though we're also seeing glorious, sunny fall afternoons - and there's not much more we can do in the yard.

The hoses are drained, the nursery is covered with hay, the temporary fence is in place and electrified in the open areas, the cover crops have germinated, and the sheet compost is rotting. We even cleaned up the garage and garden shed.

To do:
1) Look for an ignition switch for that darn tractor - hoping we'll do better searching online than at the local parts stores.
2) Take some cuttings from our existing red-osier dogwood and salmonberry and plunk them in the nursery.
3) Pack up the van, man (don't forget seed catalogs).

Here's the tucked-in nursery (I added 16 pots of mint to it yesterday, and started a mint bed over by the cistern):


The Hugelkultur area has expanded quite a bit, and we are waiting for one last load of compost:


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