The summer plants are coming to the end of their days on the Homestead, but we grew some monster plants including this humongous sunflower!
Though we do still have some tomatoes on the vine and we are holding out some hope for at least one stack of potatoes, we went ahead and took the fence down around the garden so it would be easier to clean up for the next growing season... Our fence was working okay at keeping some of the birds out of the garden, but it even so they all joined us as soon as it came down... lol
We got two of the beds weeded and cleared out some extra tomato/plant cages that weren't being used anymore. Since this is a first year garden and a lot of compost, manure and hay were used to fill the beds, we need more dirt now. I was actually surprised by how much it all settled over the summer. Our garden did grow some awesome vegetables and if we can fill up the beds again it will be even easier to tend next season! Then we just need to put a better fence around it to keep the birds out and install a gate so it's easier for Mom to get in!
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