Putting the Garden to bed for the Winter

[jjannie]

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

Finally made it out today as Jeff didn't need me in the shop. No bugs at all just brown tops for the most part. some of the under-developed carrots were pretty soft though. Still, I got about 1/2 a 5gal bucket of them. We don't eat very many at a time anyway.

Sounds like a good haul.

It was, Jeff was very surprised and happy about them. It sure beats wasting them.  It's been such a weird winter, kind of makes you want to get out and garden in the greenhouse. It's certainly not looking to too nice for doing much safe ice fishing this year. We're glad we've got our wood project to work on. We're almost to the stage of staining the wood and then adding the hardware.

I know what you mean, I've been thinking about working in my garden too, just not sure if the ground is still frozen or not, guess I should check it. Sounds like you and Jeff have been working on a big wood project.

 Yes, we are finally finishing our wall unit's side sections. I'll post a few pics of it once we get it all completed. I'm just happy we have this to do while we are NOT ice fishing, LOL The only hold up on them right now is we need some 1 1/4-inch screws that we'll pick up tomorrow when in town along with some super fine sandpaper. Today and tomorrow are sanding days, then we can assemble, stain and seal it.  

I didn't dig down into the outer raised beds to know if they were frozen or not.

I've been growing and propagating terrarium plants this winter, so I've had something to 'garden' with for now. These terrariums are for raising dart frogs and small geckos in them - they are fascinating to watch and listen to. (I made a video of the frog calling but not sure how to post a link here to it just yet, I'm still learning)