I have root crops, lettuce, and kale in the autumn garden. I harvested two heads of leaf lettuce today, speckled and Black seeded Simpson. Because of how unseasonable cold this month has begun, I will have to cover the remaining plants with plastic most of the next week to help them make it.
I've been raking/vacuuming leaves a lot and have 1.5 trash cans full of chopped leaves plus a full leaf mold bin. Next year, once plants are in the ground, I'll mulch them with this. Worms will eat it and turn it into soil. Until they do, it'll hold moisture and suppress weeds.
And I've put a similar cage around my artichokes and loaded it with leaves, hoping this makes them survive the winter. The crowns are well down in that leaf mulch. The plants are 3 feet tall and wide.
Though 6 of the next 8 days, it'll be too cold to do anything outside (except maybe jog from the car to a store's doorway), so other outdoor projects are on hold. Still, I have most things done out there.
I've even covered the windows inside to save on my heating bill, which is more than I can really afford this winter with income getting pretty iffy. (My own fault. I haven't launched a new "product" in 8 months, and in this environment, that's glacially slow.) Can't wait to turn 65 when I'll collect Social Security and can quit worrying about income from writing. At that point, any writing income will be extra, and I won't care how little it is. Anyway, I've shut down three of the six rooms of my house entirely, and will only live in three and heat three this year. Sorry to complain about money, but it's part of the story. And making the land I own work for me and provide me most of my food is the other part of the story, a happier side.
If we get a warm spell, I'll post again when I accomplish something. Otherwise, I'll post about ordering spring fruit bushes and seeds, and about seed-starting again on February 1. Ciao!
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