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| Pretty, but not very large kale |
First frost was right on time, in the last week of November. It wasn't hard enough to actually touch most of the garden, only slightly affecting the lawn and front. We have had cold enough temps to frost for several nights in a row now, but I haven't really seen it--not even at the allotment which is much more open than our sheltered garden at home.
I did a little bit of tidying up here at home anyhow, pulling out some spent plants and weeds, laying them down on the soil to break down in place. There are a lot of brassicas still standing such as the somewhat measly kale pictured above and a couple of good looking cauliflowers (a strong candidate for Thanksgiving but ultimately passed over in favor of cabbage and Brussels sprouts).
It's really about time to let our three ducks in to do a bit of work flattening what I've missed, and to do some slug hunting. They were confined to the Perennials section for most of the autumn so that we humans could enjoy a poo-free lawn; however, they are free ranging again and I need to move the chicken wire surrounding the veg patch so they can access it but not the patio or gate.
I'm still working on digging out grass at the allotment; the husband has dug out a little and also sheet mulched a corner of it with cardboard and horse manure/straw. The son and I have had a few more fires up there in the evening--enough to scorch some small circles of grass. It's a more fun method than digging, but not making a very big dent! I wish our fencing situation there was robust enough to let the chickens have at at, as I know a winter of ten busy hens would go a long way towards grass eradication.
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