Getting the Garden Ready for Fall

We have officially made it through our first growing season at Zenith Avenue.  We have learned a ton on what and what didn't work.  We also accomplished some huge projects and started some things we wanted to finished.  In our opinion, fall really is the best time to start your garden.  We start a new batch of compost, plant cover crops, garlic, and spring bulbs.  It is also our favorite time to start dreaming up what we are going to do the next year.  We can't wait for many more years in the house. 

Spring beds are clean.  We planted about 800 bulbs in our front beds.  Also, vote for Ben!

We decided to plant our garlic in one bed this year.  About 80 plants in this 80 foot section.  Just in time for Halloween!  Vampires beware!

Two buckets of green tomatoes.  Most of them will most likely go to the chickens.  Any ideas on how to use them?  Clean beds have cover crops, peas, lettuce, spinach, and carrots.

We need more next year.

This will be the home of the new cutting garden.  We removed some shrubs on the side of the house this weekend.  Imagine peonies, lilies, tulips, dahlias, irises, and other flowers.

We decided a boxwood border around the air conditioner unit would be a pretty landscape idea.