Wow...October is here! Fall in the PNW can be a wet muddy affair on our little farm. This first week of the month has been decent. The last couple of days have been warm though, so that's okay.
This week I pulled up tomato plants in the garden and removed the tomato hooks and set aside the veggie clips. Afterwards I got my Little Buddy Zeke into the garden first, without the rest of the swine, so he could do clean up on his own. Sorry no photos...He got the weird corn that grew and first pick of the leftovers before the younger swine joined him as well as little momma. After she showed up he decided he was done. They did a pretty good job with clearing the veg and some of the plants. All I have to do is gather up the stuff they didn't eat and dump it on the compost pile. Then try to clean up the weeds that I let go out of control. The plan is to get some raised garden beds for the 2024 growing season. More on that later.
This week the last thing from my Territorial Seeds order arrived! Garlic!!!
After a poor harvest of this year's garlic I decided to order a different variety of garlic. After a checking out all that Territorial has available I landed on this variety. It's a hardneck variety and seems to grow well in different climates. The next thing I needed to decide on is where to poke these into the ground. My plan is to put a cover crop in the garden before tarping it for the winter. My current garden boxes are not big enough so I decided that I would plant as much as I can into the hoop house and if I have leftover, those could go into one of the 4x4 garden boxes. I'm excited to try out a new variety, just because I had been growing the previous garlic from cloves that I kept from a sampler that I purchased and grew a few years ago.
The other thing that happened this week is this....
