Wow, that went fast!
The season's turned and we're now having some chilly mornings. Yesterday it supposedly went over 100 degrees (the town marquis said 103) but the mornings and evenings are wonderfully cool.
Tim Morgan and his boys were here mowing Saturday. We asked them to mow down most of the garden beds since the weeds were really getting out of control and we didn't want them to reseed. The yard looks sooo much better now!
I just ordered some Green Manure Cover Crop (1 lb) off of Amazon, which is a mix of different cover crops that can be used as green manure. As soon as it comes, I'm going to sow it into the mowed-down garden beds to smother the weed stumps that are there. I think this is a better approach than tilling, which only turns up more weeds.
This morning I cut down/ weeded the strawberry bed which was also going gangbusters with weeds. Then I sowed 1/4-lb of Austrian Winter Pea (S22197) from Seeds of Change and I have the sprinkler on it now. I'd like to buy some mulch and manure and such from Missouri Organic before winter.
http://www.missouriorganic.com/
The carrots are getting close to ripe, I think, and the leeks are hanging in there, but I'm not sure they'll be ready before winter actually hits us. It's been a slow season for them since it was so hot; I think that stunted them a bit.
It's time and actually past time to plant fall cool-weather crops, such as brussels sprouts, lettuce, spinach, etc. I still may before too long. Mom and Dad leave Wednesday to go to Europe for 3 weeks and hopefully I can work out in the yard, although it'll be busy for me too with Shakespeare Under the Stars and work.
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