It was 29F here this morning. Yesterday I planted some garlic (after attending a garlic workshop at the botanical garden) from Hood River. I put it in one end of a raised bed then covered it with a combo of fine mulch and dirt by about 4 inches. That is what the 'garlic expert' up here suggested. Left the paper on them; will eat those that the paper peeled off of. I have chives growing out in the other garden. Don't know if that stuff will return or not. I could cut the tops and freeze it I suppose so as not to lose it all if they don't return.
I also read that I should heavily mulch my asparagus. Need to get some garden stuff cut down, rake leaves and such and fire up the grinder to get more mulch. I use bales of weed free straw for more brown also. I used the last of my fine wood chips and cardboard on one of my beds; almost finished with that one. Sort of at a standstill as to where I will just rake/pull weeds and mulch heavily and where I will put down cardboard. I have a bunch of pots that will go around the yard next year with Squash, broccoli and such leaving the raised beds for other stuff like lettuce, peas, beans. Never tried egg plant and have given up on tomatoes. Well, maybe I could try a 4 gallon bucket or two with them. I built one of those with a collander in the bottom, drain hole, and such but it didn't work terribly well. I really followed the directions. Maybe it still needs poly around it to keep it warmer although it looked really healthy at the first of the summer then peetered off.
