A Few More Garden Notes

One more look at the garden from the picket fence gate.  This photo emphasizes one of the nicest things about the Back to Eden Gardening Method - weeds are minimal.  Thick layers of wood chip mulch crowds most all the weeds out, leaving clean walk paths between the rows of vegetables.  This has been a real plus.  

The next photo shows the remains of the purple hull peas that the freeze last week knocked out.  It melted them to the ground!  It's okay.  We have numerous quarts of shelled purple hull peas in the deep freeze.

I did try to cover our green beans up with a tarp the night before the freeze.  The green beans were lush, beautiful, healthy and full of blooms.  I put the tarp over them and weighted down either side with t-posts.  Once it warmed up the next day, Tricia unrolled the tarp.

You can see that the leaves touching the tarp experienced some damage, but the leaves underneath are healthy and will continue to grow.

There are small green beans under the canopy of leaves, so hopefully, we will get a nice harvest of fresh green beans prior to the next freeze.

One thing that wasn't affected by the freeze at all was the mustard greens.  They are healthy and ready to be harvested again.

And that's what's going on in the garden right now.