Fall/ Winter planting

 Now that my dear husband and I feel like we have a garden season under our belts and have learned A TON, we felt like we should go ahead and plant a fall/ winter garden. It only made sense. The fall weather in our town is warmer and able to have a bit of a longer growing season before the first freeze.

The first thing we did was till and fertilize the soil. Followed by another tilling and preparing the rows for seed planting.

After the ground was totally ready to receive seeds, I headed to a little nursery out in the middle of the fields. To get service you need to honk, but instead of immediately honking, I wandered around for a little bit.

The older gentleman who owns and runs it was very helpful in helping me to chose what to plant. It is my first fall garden in our new/old town, and I wanted to make sure that I was planting things that were going to survive and be hearty.

He suggested the following things: Brussel sprouts, leaf lettuce, radishes, spinach, turnips, and cauliflower.

In addition to the sweet meat winter squash that we already have growing...quite nicely if I do say. (There are a few others growing, but this was the largest as of a few days ago.)

So after we got our seeds planted; we sprinkled a thin layer of professional grade potting/ flowering soil on the top.

Then, before I could forget what the rows were, I needed to label the rows. At the time, I made signs out of cardboard, fully knowing that in 24 hours they would be destroyed because of our above ground watering system. But that gave me enough time to put together some sort of plan (in between being a toddler mom and ceo of running our family!).

Instead of spending money and loads of time making adorable little stick signs with cute graphics and colors, I found rocks from around our property. Time efficient and more ecological.

And then, because this is exactly who I am, I wrote on them with a sharpie.

 

 

I will update soon about how the rows are already producing!! (They started after 4 days. No kidding)