Lime, Favas, and Season's Bounty

Final Butternut squash take for the season

It's already November, and even though the growing is almost done for the season, there's still much to do including the final harvest of the season--just in time for our Thanksgiving butternut squash pie Brent is planning on making for our big family meal together at the end of the month...

There's bags of lime to put down (Most has been completed.); even though everything grew very nicely this season, a pH of only 5 seems a bit low for optimum production...

There's a sizable bag of fava beans that have been carefully planted in all the areas we "degrassed" at the end of the season that will serve as this year's cover crop to add nitrogen to our soil.  I've planted them in various ways to see what technique will prove most .

And there's a lot of landscaping in our efforts to beautify the entire planting area and to add some interest to our homestead (See the round river stones in the picture that follows.); many plants that the deer found tasty in the arboretum have been moved near to the cabin to help make them less desirable...

the 'limed' garden down from the partially landscaped swath
of ornamental plants and river rock


Watch for future developments!!!