What are you doing to put your garden to bed for the winter time?

Maybe you are luck and your growing season is still in swing. We are nearing the first frost date. It has been too hot and dry for my Fall greens to germinate so I will need to start them in the greenhouse, where they can grow until Jan or Feb.

How do you clean up your garden beds?

For Milpa beds, I chop and drop the beans and other plants for mulch, cover with a little compost, and then some woodchips.

In the main garden:

• I loosen the soil with a broadfork. Not too much.
• I add amendments like lime, rock phosphate, and liquid kelp.
• Then a thick layer of compost.
• I add a thick layer of leaves that I collect from the curbside in town once the leaves drop.
• Then I cover it with a layer of woodchips.

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