What have you done today in the Garden?

It's been a busy week here, wrapping things up before winter.

The deer have rediscovered my strawberry patch. I'm having a lot of success with the cheap nylon pea netting - they don't like the feel of it and can't easily maneuver it. It saved my memory garden, beans and haskaps this year. Today I recycled some to keep the straw-babies safe until the snow arrives.

The last of the leaves were packed into a giant grain bag. The Haskaps were restaked and supported so that the netting can take some snow load. I mowed Angus' pen and around the squash before winterizing the mower and putting it away. And Nadine the scarecrow came out to winter in the garden stable.

 

I hauled a few loads of wood chips to the compost and a few containers yesterday, and 4 more loads this afternoon. I hope to move the rest of it ASAP, because there is a mimosa full of seeds near it. Those seeds are a pest. Guess I will work on that pile again tomorrow. If the winds die down, I will get back at the leaves. The oaks are always slow dropping them; but most trees are close to bare.

We have had very high winds yesterday and today, so it was no use trying to rake dry leaves.