My Garden: Putting The Gardens To Bed

As winter fast approaches and the mornings are frosty and cold it’s time to tidy up the gardens and make sure they are ready for the winter.

garden, frost — A Frosty Vegetable Garden

I’ve been busy cutting back the garden beds around the house. Some are completely done and ready for the winter.

Others still need a bit of work.

garden, fall — Other garden beds still need some work!

Luckily I have little helpers’ every time I am out working in the garden.

We allow our chickens to free range this time of year and they love scratching about in the gardens. This morning it was so cold they were a little reluctant to venture outside of their warm coop.

chickens, coop — Venturing out of the coop.

I still have some work left to do in the vegetable garden; hopefully I will get to finish it before the snow flies. I try to pull any weeds and cut most everything back so I’ll have a little less work in the spring.The Johnny Jump-Ups are still blooming away. Nice to see their cheery faces in the garden.

flowers, blooms — Flowers still in bloom

Overall it’s been a good gardening year and I look forward to starting again next season.

In the meantime, I’ll enjoy the beauty around me The trees on the hills are bare now and the only green you see is from the evergreens.

Note: Little did I know just how fast winter was approaching, the above pictures were taken yesterday. Here’s what it looks like this morning. It’s snowing!