SUGA 2018

CapeCoddess wrote:  How many plants made all those tomatoes???

Scorpio Rising wrote:Great season, wouldn’t you say?  Looks real to me! 

• Anyhow, mother nature is doing a better job than me, found these 50' away up on the hill.
  

• Looks good.
  

• Lets have a look at the crown, looks good.
  
  

• Tossed the little guys in my asparagus bed. I got three crown from this, hopefully they will take. It's actually a bit funny, last season I saw these sprouting all over the place and didn't give them much thought. These are Jersey Knights and supposed to be all male plants, not sure how they grew up on the hill.
  
  

• Great, these guys again, I think they know I planted some apple trees and have two peach trees on order. This is the only guy I saw and by the looks of him, he's not going to last very long.
  
  

• Ants, I'm really getting tired of these things!
  
  

• 1/2 cord dropped off.
  

• Cut back the Tabasco and re-potted to bring inside for overwintering.
  

• Built a pressurized clean out for the overflow on the rain barrel.
  

• Found a new home for my irrigation equipment.
  

• Installed another 4x4 post for some cable and ran another length of the vintage cafe lights.
  

• I finished winter prepping a few more beds, I wanted to wait for a winter kill of the cover crops but the yard is looking pretty messy and I need to get it cleaned up, that and the weather was so nice especially Sunday. The yard is so small that a few buckets and pallets and it looks trashed! Topped the beds with cardboard then compost.
  
  

• When the beds settle a bit they'll be topped with double ground mulch and get a good watering with some rain water and urea. During the winter, leaves, rabbit manure/bedding, bio-char and other things will be tossed on top as they become available.
  
  

• This bed I am doing a bit differently. Rabbit manure and bedding then cardboard, yard trimmings and compost. When this settles a bit I'll top with Ramial? Wood Chips. I plan on planting a peach tree in the right corner and may be trying mushrooms this year. I checked out the wood chips I picked up and they have a lot of small branches with buds on them, there's also a bit of green leaves in with them.
  
  

• Started another batch of bio-char.
  

• Re-potted all of the Mums in compost. Funny thing when were looking at Mums, Laura grabs the ones that are all opened up and look beautiful and I grab the ones that are just buds. Re-potted my daughters neglected succulents.
  

• Pulled some Leeks for dinner, one of our fall favorites.
  

• My Redhaven Peach Dwarf tees from Stark Bros. came in, so I planted both of them and also worked on my "mushroom garden" layered some more compost, rabbit bedding/manure and wood chips, just waiting for the Wine Cap Stropharia rugosa-annulata mushroom spawn from Field and Forest.
  

• Planted one in the Hugelkultur bed (right). This will be the mushroom bed also.
  
  

• and one in the corner with some blackberries, it's tight but I'll prune to fit.