The Fall Garden

We will be leaving this garden, but we still can't resist taking care of it and planting things in anticipation of fall. Ben has always been sure that the best way to learn to garden and grow things well is to seize each and every opportunity that you have. Sometimes this may only involve the prepping, planting, germinating, and weeding portion of that learning and not the harvesting, eating and cooking. Still it is worth it. Digging up the compost, prepping a great piece of earth, drawing a line and hoping the kids can spread the seeds somewhat evenly, patting them in, covering them and giving them their first water. All worth it.

We have Shitake mushrooms popping up on our oak logs.

Ladybug larva prepping to eat all the aphids off our asparagus plants.

Garlic Chives flowering in anticipation of seed production.

And our heirloom green beans are drying on their vines waiting for us to harvest.