I've been working on the asparagus beds, cutting down the stalks and piling them onto the compost bed.
The last week has been icy cold in the mornings and this morning was foggy and cold. Seems like we skipped over Autumn and went straight into Winter in May. I'm thinking it will bounce back and become a bit more mild, it just feels way too early to have frozen water pipes.
This bed grew potatoes over summer. I'll now build a compost pile, which will be left for six months.
Looking across the garden towards the large Eucalypts on the boundary you'll notice the misty, foggy view and the sense of hunkering down. Beds are being tidied up. Lots of gardeners choose to do very little over winter. I still have loads of tasks to go before I'm ready to hibernate for the winter mornings. I've got to finish weeding the asparagus beds, mulch them, dig over last summer's tomato and pumpkin and zuccini beds, plant out the green manure and do something about those pesky cabbage caterpillars. I've been trying to deal with the cabbage caterpillars by hand - but I'm loosing patience (and too many growing leaves) and so may resort to Dipel, which is allowed under Organic principles, though many like to use it as a last resort method.
