I’ve very behind with posting – weekends have been full of the kind of life stuff I don’t tend to document here. But the garden has marched on. We had a killing frost overnight on the 17th – the results are above. We’d actually had a lighter frost a few days before that that everything except the basil survived.
That same week, after I’d already made a meal plan and done my grocery shopping, I walked out to find that the deer are back. And they really like Swiss chard. So that was nice while it lasted. Very bittersweet, considering how meh my last two years of Swiss chard had been – this had been doing so well!
The above is the current state of things – dahlias dug out, all of the tender plants snipped down and moved to the compost, and pretty much just the alyssum still holding on, and a few herb pots left until it’s actually going to snow and I won’t feel bad putting them in the shed.
Speaking of dahlias, here’s the tuber harvest. The creme de cognac I bought this year never did bloom, but the tubers grew in quite nicely, so I’m saving those, and we’ll see what happens next year before I decide if I need to give up on them. Here’s hoping I can nurse them all through another winter.