Gardening

Embracing Change: Parting with My Seasonal Garden

The end of a season

Fall is well underway and has been warmer and dryer than usual, but my garden has been slowly fading away. It has finally started to rain in earnest today and we will be getting more rain over the next few weeks. Soon the snow will fall.

Yesterday I finished putting away my vegetable garden to get ready for winter. We had a few nights of below-freezing temperatures, though they didn’t bother my tomato plants.

Fading tomato plants (photo by author)

I did strip off all the green tomatoes and bring them in to ripen in the house. I also put a sheet over my green pepper plants to give them a few more days in their bin.

Last of the tomatoes (photo by author)

I need to change the soil in my containers next spring for new compost, so I decided to empty them now into my new garden beds. I chopped up all the tomato plants and tossed them into compost in place.