There’s always next year, right?
It hasn’t been a bad year. The biggest challenge has been the growth of all the other plants. We have 3 types of aggressive vining plant, a couple of invasive ground covers and lots of your regular garden-variety weeds. They are growing much better than the plants I want to have in place.
We have a number of gardens: the soft fruit, the back cottage, the greenhouse, the blackberry patch and the field garden. All of them are overgrown and will need a new strategy for next year. They all need to be tamed and a buffer created around them. I hate to think what they would have been without the hay. Having said that, I will need about 3 times as much hay or straw for next year.
One strategy I plan is to lay cardboard over the field garden for the winter. I still plan to plant corn, beans, squash and potatoes there. They can all go in through holes cut in the cardboard.
How do you tame your garden?
