It was rumored that there would be a hard freeze the other night (it never actually happened) so I pulled all of my peppers and tomatoes, even the green ones. I even said a little farewell to my garden. "Goodbye garden, it was a great year. See you next spring." The funny thing is that I'll still be seeing a lot of my little garden this fall with the pulling of plants and laying of compost. There is still a lot to be done. By the way, tomato plants are sure a pain to pull out. One plant can fill one or more of those brown paper lawn bags! Should I throw it all in my compost instead? Instinctively I feel like I shouldn't. What do you think?
I also had to throw in a couple of gratuitous kitty photos. She's so cute!
Maybe it's too late, but I'm of the opinion that everything that comes out of the garden, barring diseased plants, should go into the compost.
ReplyDeleteOf course, I always used to pick up other people's compost bags of leaves and lawn clippings to put into my garden.