
Changes are happening in the garden again. The first tray of winter garden seedlings was planted out into this bed (with some overflow into two other beds) yesterday morning. We're looking at many kinds of lettuce, some Georgia Collards, Red Russian Kale, and arugula here. The mixed mustards and the cabbages are in other beds. We're watering overhead, by hand, until they are established and then we'll use the t-tape that you can see installed.

So it was beyond time to remove the last of the summer crops. Here are the two beds of mixed winter squash. They still had blooms and growing squashes on them, but, truly, we don't need any more at this point, and we will need the bed space before long.

So, after yanking them out, we were left with this pile of vegetation! After it dries out, we'll run it through our shredding machine and have mulch for the new beds.

And this! The harvest from those remaining plants: a few more squash and some volunteer cherry tomatoes! They had to come from last year's plantings because we didn't even plant cherries this year. I thought I would save the green ones and see if they will ripen. The green heirloom tomatoes we harvested are gradually ripening, at a pace that we can use them.

Now the squash beds (on the right side of the photo are empty. It looks like the beds in the background are, too, but they have all been planted with cover crop and it is beginning to come up. The beds are full of little green things. One (or two?) beds are planted in fava beans.

Here are a few more of the winter squash that were harvested a week or so ago: Burgess Buttercup (dark green), Butternut, and the giant Guatemalan Blues, with a hint of one small Japanese Red Kuri peeking through!

And here is the next tray of newbies! Another round of lettuce, kale, and cabbage just poking their heads up. When they are big enough, these will go where the just-removed squash plants were.
I confess that I am still a gardener when the thought occurs to me to go and do something in the garden. I think with the number of beds we have I will need to become the kind of gardener who thinks of doing something in the garden every day!
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