Well Winter is here, yes, its meant to be cold and wet and crappy outside, but winter brings a time to rest when you can, clean up your garden, prune fruit trees and sit back and reflect on the Garden. Dining on Pumpkin soup, you can be happy for your efforts during the warmer months. Everytime I open a jar of passata, not only do I think about growing the tomato’s but making the passata with my Sister and kids. Family is how we judge whether you have had a good life, its not the STUFF that you slave to posses or the new Bling that you think makes you fit in, its family and friends that you wished you could have spent more time with.
So what to do in the Garden now.
Pruned fruit trees
Your brasscias should already be in the ground, but its not too late to plant some broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower and other winter veg.
My main winter planting is onions & garlic, this year I have planted some 700 hundred cloves this year as I hope to start selling it. GlenGarlic
Cabbages, Cauliflower & Broccoli
These are some pumpkins that I got this year, i have already given 10 or so away, some to the local primary school for their kitchen garden program. Given more time I would try to make more products with them, scones, fruit cake etc.
Pumpkins
I like to put some photos of the yard in here to show the change from jungle to not much, let it rest, put in fertilizer and dont give away all your nutrients.
Backyard
Turning the composting plant material into topsoil
I dont like turning over the soil, all the reading that I have done points to not digging up the soil too much, i do this once per year, before winter sowing, the soil is wet, clods break down easier and digging holes to put the rotting materials back into the system
Planted onions
My other ventures are to do some deer hunting, hopefully I might get one soon, not that I need the meat, but I will share it with family and friends. Giving food to another human is the most important thing you can do.
