• gardening

    Putting my garden to bed

    It’s been raining like crazy (even for Seattle), so I hadn’t gotten out in the yard in awhile. The dead pole beans, wilted eggplants and red, cracked jalapeños had been haunting me every time I pulled into the driveway, so I finally got out there last weekend. It was a super foggy morning, but it wasn’t raining and the forecast was for sun, so I bundled up and went for it. I like to “put my garden to bed” in the fall, before the first frost if possible. Some aspects of what that means change every year and some stay the same. It mostly consists of putting stuff in the shed…