Putting the Garden to bed for the Winter

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Besides leaves - we do the same thing as well. I looked into adding sawdust since our woodshop central vacuum system is just about ready to need to be dumped. However, looking online I found doing so we'd need to then add about a high amount of a high nitrogen fertilizer - such as ammonia sulfate - 21-0-0 to the soil as it will rob soil of nitrogen as it breaks down, kind of defeating the concept of using it.  Of course, any worms would be happy, but the plants will not. 

 This week with all this 'warmer' weather we've been having, we're going to check the greenhouse for carrots still in it to see if they will still be edible.

What I have found from past tries at carrots, is that if it's warm enough, the bugs will get to them and chew them up around the tops but the bottoms are still good. How is that new snow thrower working out for you two this Winter?

Snow blower working well. I was making a video of it in operation, but it just didn't work out. First, we run our walk behind snowblower to do the perimeter edges plus it'll get into tighter areas the tractor can, which is super nice - it even throws the slushy wet snow. Plowing from inside the cab you get quite warm, never need gloves and then if the snow blow back happens having the wiper and windshield its WAY nicer than getting face full. Also, it handles those deeper amounts of snow way better than walk behind does. 

Hopefully they won't have too many bugs - guess we'll see. We didn't get to it yesterday, so maybe this afternoon. We've been in heavy fog clouds all morning even after sunup.

Hopefully who won't have too many bugs? Not sure what that last paragraph means

Still haven't made it out there to check yet, our project and some appointments just keep interfering with the plan - maybe today. if we're lucky.

LOL, now I know what you mean by too many bugs, in the carrots. I was having a hard time figuring that out.