Ending and Beginning

Looks like we’ll have our first days of the season with the high temp below freezing this week.

M and I got half of the garage cleaned out so we could get one of our cars in there. That’s a sure sign that winter weather is here.

I put a ring of straw bales around the kale and collards this afternoon, then draped a sheet of clear plastic over the whole thing. I weighed it down with some big, heavy logs on the west side, and more logs on the other sides. I think it’s almost impossible to fight off that wind when it’s whipping out of the west northwest, but we’ll do our best. I hope to get a few more weeks out of it.

I cut quite a bit of kale, cooked some of it, and put the rest in a bag in the fridge. I don’t pick or cook ahead in the summer, but seems like the right way to deal with it this time of year.

Also, the compost was at 137°F this afternoon.

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