California - What are you doing this month?

It's been several days since I have written in this topic.  The great American adventure was fun, a good change from the garden and before the holidays start.  The plants I put in the beds are doing fine, sort of.  When we got back I found a young grasshopper and a green worm in the emergency planting box.  Not too much damage.  Cabbage Patch when we left:
Cabbage patch today:

Chard and kale when we left:
Today:
I'm trying to get winterized but there's so much cleanup and stuff to store.  I've worked a couple days removing the rest of the trellises and the star jasmines.  Ken removed the root balls.  Only 1 of the 31 we planted for privacy is left.  I've got City compost, horse manure and coffee grounds to fill the holes from the star jasmines, then re-cover with the ramial chips from last fall.  Removing all of the SJ will save labor and time on our general yard work.  We will cut the posts to just below the height of the public view fence and install new redwood trellises for the section in the back yard.  The ones down the side yard will be left uncovered for now so I can experiment with tall sunflowers where the SJ were planted and hanging pots like Jimmycee has.  Mine won't look as good as his (everything he touches turns to gold) but I just want something totally different from what we had.  I'm only going to invest my efforts in produce and flowers.  At the end of the side yard is another 1' x 3' box that nothing would grow in.  I think it was just an unusual hotspot.  Well, the morning glories I started survived the summer (and Ken accidentally spraying them with bleach water).  
You can see one of the 1' x 3' beds with snow peas, about a foot tall.  The second box on the other side of the rose bush was planted when we got back and nothing has sprouted yet.
I moved a couple of worm tubes to new positions or boxes.  Harvested a half gallon of castings from the free-range Hilton for the wormless beds.

I cut off the tomatoes in the buckets, leaving just enough stem as a handle.  Of course, they all regrew and look twice as healthy as they did during the summer.  I planted the onion starts, lettuce, garlic cloves and more snow peas in 3 boxes.  The onions look like they are dying.     Three beds are going to sleep this winter.  Three 1' x 3' didn't have anything but weeds this summer.  The okra didn't spout in them.  ?? I think that's all for right now.

Thanks all. YS, I heard that they are hard to get rid of once established, so the 1' x 3' box with trellis leaning against the fence seemed the perfect spot for them.

It's cloudy and cool outside so I can get in some good work today.

You have quite a garden there! All the work you have done on the slope not only expanded the size of your garden but should pay off handsomely this winter if we really get the El Nino that is predicted. Some weather guy predicted 15". I'll believe it when I see it. Your green house and hoop covers are inspiring me to set up my little 4' x 4' greenhouse and see if I get any tomatoes from the regenerated tomatoes in buckets. Does the basil overwinter well under cover? Well done, woman.

I haven't been on the Forum very much recently.  I worked in the garden for 5 days getting ready for the rain we have had all day.  Nothing stormy, just constant light and medium rain.  I'm glad for all the work I did even though I still have a little more to do.  My back has a different opinion.

The East side yard last week 10-26-15 with the star jasmines removed.  The snow peas in the first box are now 2' tall.

The East side yard today during a little break in the rain.  All the holes were filled with horse manure, City compost and coffee grounds, then covered with wood chips and leaves.  The gutter between the fences cleaned of organic debris.  All of the pots were emptied, de-rooted, MM replaced, and covered with fabric and chips to keep out debris and seeds.  After I did all of those pots, I realized that I won't be using all of them next summer.   Oh, well the MM in the ones I don't use will go into the 13 hanging baskets I recently bought.

This is an ornamental Pineapple Sage.  I have had them before but never noticed their beautiful red flowers.  The hummingbirds are visiting them:

Here are two of the 2' x 4' boxes with snow peas, onions, garlic, carrots, bok choy and parsnips.  The West fence line box where winter squash grow in the summer:
The West box where cantaloupe grow during the summer.  The NZ spinach in the adjacent 2' x 3' box.  The free-range worm box in the background under the orange tree.  

I still have a handful of pots to clean, plastic sheeting to cut and measure for heavy rain and frost protection and the patio area to clean up.  Some tools to clean, dry and store.  Oh, and laying commercial weed fabric around the TTs so I can access them in the muddy times. Feeling like some of the pressure has lifted since last week.  Soon it will be seed catalog time!  Maybe some seed sales locally.

Yes, Ibu is a wonderful thing. Back is feeling better after a day off due to rain. It's now sunny so I will have to get some more work done today, maybe just a couple hours worth. $7 a pound?

Marc, with your winter temps, have you tried growing them?

Marc, I plant the snow peas in the late fall. They stop producing/growing at Christmas, then start to pick up again. I pull them out when the beds are warm enough to plant the beans, say April. By then they have PM, anyway. I would try planting them right now in a sunny place and see how many sprout. A bucket or big pot against the fence or a pole in the middle.

42*F predicted for tonight. I ordered unusual PVC fittings yesterday from SnapClamp and received them today. I need to erect my little green house for the tomatoes real soon.

I wrestled with the green house today. I raised it another foot high for comfort and of course the plastic cover doesn't fit so I wrestled making a new one. I thought I was going to be so clever making a door but really had to wrestle with that. Back to the drawing board. I have to go to Sac for family this weekend but at least the nights will only be down in the low 50s. Slight chance of rain on Monday.