It's Funny Hoe Wrong I Can Be

I just recovered from a cold, the first one I've had in a long time, and now I'm ready to bring the fields back under control and ready them for winter. The temperature dropped for a few days a week back and this led to a whole ground covering of fresh greens in my first eight rows. My uncle says these creepers will overwinter, so I'm back in the field hoeing them down.

Surprisingly, my strawberries haven't slowed down at all and now they are my number one weed. They are just thick, covering the rows and aisles, not even leaving space to walk in some areas.

I've made apple juice once already, but want to make more before all the fruit falls from the trees. I've been storing apple sauce for the winter. It is delicious. Also being stored for the winter: carrots, green/wax/purple beans, tomatoes, peppers, strawberries. I might be storing some of these in my grandmother's freezer, as mine are already running out of room.

My other large project for the fall has to do with poles and posts. I've only put about 2/5ths of the posts in for the bramble trellis, and I don't like how my tomato trellis turned out, so I'm going to salvage those posts and the string, and rebuild it next year. I might not pull all of the posts out, but some of the rows need rebuilding for sure.

After the first few days of frost, I'll be covering the strawberries with straw &/or corn stalks for winter protection, and that'll be the end of the season.