It’s looking pretty sad from the south side of the Moby again. All the big raised beds are barren and it just looks empty and forgotten. I miss the big plants and veggies and just going out there every morning to look around at by my homestead gardens. There is a season for all things and I’m determined not to pine too long for the growing season and enjoy the crafting and creating season. This is the time for me to work on business and crafts and new products and music and all for the fun season. In fact I was trying to change my mind set a bit and start to consider working very hard over the fall and winter so that I could take it easy over the spring and summer and just do homesteading fun things! Yeah! I believe that I can make that happen.

My broccoli is still hanging in there. This is the last of the second planting. It’s really getting close to being ready to harvest, so it might meet it’s end in a day or two.

I let the last of the pole beans just dry up on the vines and I’m going to save the beans. There are not enough to really eat or anything, but I think they will look lovely in a little glass jar. My first beans from the Moby homestead farms! How cool.

My last couple tomatoes and pepper plants finally gave up the ghost a day or two ago. It’s been pretty consistantly frosting at night, so they just couldn’t stand it any longer. I took the last of their bounty and hope that some might ripen in the window sills. We’ll see.

It’s official. With the projected broccoli harvest of about 1 pound… we have finished the season with a whopping total of 90.5 pounds of produce!!! Yeah!!! I had hoped to hit the 100 pound mark, but we just fell a little short of it. It’s all wonderful though, and 90 pounds of food from just a little mobile home lot is pretty cool. All total I spent about $800 in the improvement… building beds, dirt, plants, trees and all that. Kinda pricey, but next year, I won’t have to spend nearly anything close to that. All my yearly plants and trees are in the ground, beds done, etc. I have a couple more beds I want to build in the spring, but nothing like this first year of construction.

I’ve got a lot more land that I can use for beds… tucked here and there. I’d like to avoid mowing on the south side of the Moby all together and I think that is going to be easy. Just weed wacking around the beds now and then. And I’d like to use up a little more of my “gray” area land on the north side… I call it gray because there is no mobile home on the lot between me and my neighbors on either side and most likely won’t every be. Management is fine with me growing on that area, since then they don’t have to mow it and all, but at the same time, SHOULD they wish to put a Moby in there, it all goes down.

Now, since they have a very high percentage of open lots and much easier to get to from the street, etc., I think the odds of them putting one there is pretty slim. But still, I definately don’t want to invest a lot in boards and beds and all… I think in those areas, next year, I’ll probably just put in raised lumps of dirts, neatly arranged of course. And plant like squash and zukes and such other there. We’ll see how the master plan turns out over the winter!!!

Luna and I spend as much time in the hammock as possible because I know soon… it’s going to have to go into the shed and I will be sad. It’s been a little chilly, but I still have managed to get a little hang time in. I’m noticing that the trees to the north of me are still green… not sure what gives with that. A lot of the other trees are already changing and all.

This one up front is already dropping most of it’s little golden fall jewels!

I think the north trees will be changing soon, in fact, this morning they are looking a little paler. They are a really pretty yellowy color and I’m looking forward to my washing dishes window to have a new view real soon.

That’s the wrap up of the fall garden… not too much going on anymore. I’m going to get a handful of the cheapo perennials at the hardware store soon, and plant a few more hundred bulbs for the spring, but that’s about it. Sad time but it’s a necessary part of the whole process of life! Time to relax a bit, sip hot cocoa and do some crafting and reading and all that!

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