Fall Clean Up

The few weeks of nice weather (a couple of weeks ago, now) were a good time to clean up the garden and gasp! get ready for spring. In "the bottom" as we call it, an new acre was plowed, tilled, and planted with a cover crop to keep the weeds at bay, the soil healthy and ready to plant in the spring.  The gardens were cleared of plant debris and tilled with the exception, of course, of the things still in the ground: corn, carrots, parsnips, beets and leeks.  The chickens were let loose in the strawberries to clean up the rows and the fence lines were cleared of blackberries and tall grasses. The hoop house was cleaned out to make room for the tractors to be out of the winter weather, (Oh, the dreams of a barn...) and the checklist continues.