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Monday, October 31, 2011

Happy Halloween......

......from Erica's Haunted Zombie Vegetable Garden!

dead branches in yard from recent snowstorm

veggie graveyard

at least the kale and carrots are still alive!

those are the sheets I used to cover the plants, then I took them off and put them in a corner of the walkway and they got all wet/frozen. Now I'm drying them out so I can shake them off and wash them and put them away for the year.

still have brussel sprouts and beets! Remember when that back wall was all filled with tomatoes?!?! I also had peppers in the front, lots of viney stuff (gourds, squashes, etc.) in and out of everything.

aaaaaaaaaaand here's the carnage!  piles and piles of vegetable plant corpses! 

I piled the plant material on the sides because next on my list is to scrap everything off the top of the compost pile to dig out a harvest of COMPOST!! Then I can pile everything and leave it for the winter.

veggie label carnage and gnomes gathering together for the winter.

I did get a harvest despite pulling out so many plants! Here are some carrots, onions, and broccoli.   I'll have more harvests of all of these (except maybe broccoli) and the plants i mentioned above (b.sprouts, beets, kale). Also I still have mint and thyme, which should last somewhat into the winter.

How are all of your vegetable gardens? Is anyone else still harvesting?  Does anyone else have zombie vegetable gardens in their back yards?

3 comments:

Mary and Justin said...

hahaha vegetable carnage! Reminds me of attack of the killer tomatoes. Good job still having veggies to pick!

Amy said...

Yes, our veggie garden is now full of zombies. Only the carrots and brussels sprouts are still green/alive. Our first hard frost was this past weekend...very late for us! Tomorrow I will clean up the carnage!

Kelly said...

Bye bye garden! Looking forward to seeing what you grow next year! We still had peppers through Halloween weekend but that's it. Jim put them in a chili and he won at our friend's chili cook off!