Week 38 - Overview

The garden is unusually empty for this time of year. The potatoes finished early, the beans are sparse, the squash plants have been removed, and we have had a number of failures, all of which has left a lot of empty soil. Bed 5 was planted with winter greens a few weeks ago and a green manure was broadcast over beds 6, 7 and 10. Last week the empty part of bed 11 was planted with a winter crop of carrots and beetroot, which will be covered with a polytunnel. This week we sowed clover as a undercrop in beds 1, 3, 8 + 9, which will hopefully establish under the current plants and will continue to grow after they are harvested. In the spring, all of the green manures will be dug into the soil to add fertility for the plants next year. If things go well, all of the beds will have either an edible or a composting crop growing in them over the winter, and in some cases both.