Gardening on Phinney Ridge, Seattle area. Very small yard with raised beds and good south and west light.
Friday, December 2, 2011
December gardening...Still!
December 2nd and a very mild 44 degrees outside with a tiny bit of sunshine. It was a great day to get some more garlic planted, 2 rows of the unknown soft necked Chinese garlic that I like and has been keeping so well. I still want to plant an artichoke variety which I have from last years unknown planting.
Pulled up the remaining bean stalks, layered paper and leaves in one bed, that bed also has carrots and parsnips that are tiny, maybe they will grow a bit or maybe they will make it through to spring and grow then...we shall see. No covering on them yet.
Covered the garlic and shallot beds with leaves from my friend Liz'z trees, which she nicely bagged and delivered. Those beds should be warm and drier and protect the bulbs should we have a hard freeze. I think the leaves will all decompose and add to the compost in those beds by spring. Easy gardening.
I still have beets, lacinato kale, collards, chinese cabbage, turnip greens and parsley. There is a bit of tarragon left cut and ready to dry. The chives, garlic chives and tarragon got a little covering of leaves today.
There wasn't much gardening this last month of November, ate the last of the tomatoes which was amazing to me that in November without a hot summer we still had tomatoes to eat, the best of them were the Sun Golds.
And there are December Roses!
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