Pulling up the garden

Yesterday we decided to say goodbye to the garden for this year. The temperatures are dropping and we wanted to save as much fruit as we could before it got too cold. It was kind of sad and fun to go out and pull everything up and pick the fruits and vegis. We got several green peppers, anaheims, and fooled you peppers. We got some squash and a few onions. But we picked over 200 green tomatoes. We were told that if you pick all of your green tomatoes and put them in paper bags in a single layer and fold the top down, they will ripen. So we picked all that we could find. I would still like to bottle tomatoes if they all get ripe around the same time. It was a blast having a garden and I can't wait to do it again next year.

We don't use this shower and so Wendy Sudar gave us the great idea of storing the tomatoes in there and checking on them every few days.

Here is the huge pile we pulled up. Now we just need to haul it off and till up the dirt in the boxes and we will be good to go next year. The garden box, weed trap and gravel idea worked wonderfully, we didn't weed our garden once and everything except the watermelon grew beautifully.