Today and yesterday, I spent my time catching up, cleaning up, and finishing. After a week of brutal heat, I really enjoyed the chance to get outside and get some real work done in my garden.
I cleaned out the pea beds, saving the remainder of the peas for seed, broke up the pea vines, and mulched the beds with them. Once they have a couple of days rest, I'll plant beans and my crop rotation for those beds will be complete. Beans follow peas. One restores the soil for the other. This fall, I'll mulch the same beds with bean plants for the peas to be planted next spring.
I reset the same bamboo stakes I had used to build teepees for the peas. Once planted, I plan to put chicken wire around this bean crop to protect it from the rabbits that have been sneaking out to snack on the peas. While clearing the overgrowth from around the fence, I found the hole in the fence where the rabbits have been coming to eat through everything I plant. I'll attend to that when I put in my bean defense system.
My husband lent a hand while I set and leveled the trellises I built for the cucumbers and patty pan squash. I tied those up so that they could finally take full advantage of the morning sun.
I was finally able to weed the walkway and I added two more buckets of green stuff to my compost bin. I put down a couple more bins of wood chips on the other walkways.
It's amazing what a person can accomplish in cooler weather. Finishing always feels good. A neat garden was my reward. No more things to build, weeds to pull, beetles to pluck... for now. Tomorrow, a new week begins with a new list of chores to start and chores to complete. For now, I can sit back and enjoy. Everything looks great.
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