A hardy crew of widely diverse ages has been out getting the garden ready for winter, should it ever come. This past weekend we mowed the front (again, having sharpened the other end of the rotor), raked, fertilized and seeded. (Yes, seeded, sounds crazy but with this warm wet weather continuing, I don't doubt we could get a head start on spring.) A few weeks ago, we packed up two large bags of leaves and set by the compost tumbler: we can use them over the winter to cover food scraps we put in there. (It was getting pretty nasty in there, but we threw a few handfuls of leaves in and tumbled it around; hopefully it's achieved a better balance between carbon and nitrogen.)
Yet to Do: Rake the back courtyard again; mulch the lawn strips along East 18th Street with mower (it does a nice job and will be good to help enrich the soil and prepare it for next spring's replanting); til that lawn strip; set the pavers that we removed from the tree pits along the Avenue H lawn strip.
Wish List for Christmas or When We Get Money: Rake, edge clippers (manual kind, not electric or gas).
