It's that time again! After a summer marked by erradict heat and changes in the weather the fall and early winter have been a quiet, quiet season in our garden. It is now time to start pulling up anything and everything that's been left over from the fall, and plow the garden to prepare for spring & summer planting.
Today, Papa went out to the garden to find that there were still some herbs trying to make a come back in the midst of it all:)
Our corn also needed to be pulled up.
(Now, usually, we will have a fall garden, and when we do, these areas are already plowed
over and cleared out but since we didn't there are some of the summer plants still remaining).
As well as many of the stakes:
These were the stakes that we used as supports for pepper plants and garden borders on the second half of the garden.
Now one might think, "why not re-use the stakes from the previous season?" If you look closing in the picture on the right, you will see were part of the stake began to rot. And that can happen. Now you can use metal stakes but they're going to be a little more pricey. So stick to the wooden stakes. If you need something for support for a plant (like peppers or tomatoes with cages) that are going to be growing tall, they're the way to go!
