The last couple of weekends have been about putting the garden to bed for the season. The rain barrels are down, and the trellis has been stowed behind the shed. The shed itself is looking neater inside than it has in months.
On Thanksgiving morning, after a walk at Two Lights, my mother and I stopped at Kettle Cove to fill up on seaweed. Before dinner that day, I joined up the two beds in the backyard from last year, and covered those with straw. We also leaf mulched the front bed, and tacked that down.
We also started blocking out the area behind the back yard beds against the house with cardboard. The idea there is to not have to mow back there – it was a real pain over this summer. We finished that today after getting some more straw to lay over everything.
If you squint, you can see the first snowfall of the season in the grass. It was nothing major – it’s only sticking in the backyard because the sun no longer clears the treeline.