Clean Up

Today was the beginning of my fall garden clean up.  I know that fall isn’t here quite yet, but the weather has been changing in the last couple weeks.  Today I pulled out the peas in the middle garden.  These were the plants that that had left peas on so that I could save them for seed.  This is a picture of the plants before I removed them.

 The peas that I picked off are all at various stages of drying.  Some pods are completely dry and black looking, and others are still green.  I am going to leave them in a flat all spread out to continue drying.  I have read that you can leave them in the pods until you need to plant them in the spring, so at lease I don’t have to worry about them being in the pod too long. 

After removing the peas I dismantled the trellis, and used my new garden tool to work up the ground.  Im not entirly certain what the name of the tool is, but it is amazing for breaking up the soil. This is where the garlic is going to be planted in about 6 weeks.  I will be adding more manure to the soil and am debating on planting some buckwheat as well.