Winterizing the garden

We are still trying to finish putting our garden to bed for the winter.  We layered two more rows with a thin layer of vermicompost and a thick layer of our compost.  We have a nice pile of compost that was too wet to use as a feedstock for the worms, so we are using it as a top dressing in the garden.  It was nice to see an abundance of worms in the compost as we transferred it to the rows.  I never thought that I would be excited to see multitudes of worms, but it confirms that the life in the soil is thriving. 

I still have some immature lettuce under a row cover.  I am going to wait to see what happens over the next week.  The ground is still able to maintain some heat but the lettuce hasn't grown in the last two weeks.  It looks healthy and I might steal some outside leaves this week.

I planted snap peas this past summer for a fall crop.  It was a real treat to be able to eat fresh garden snap peas in October.  That is something that I will definately do again.  I still have some leeks in the garden that need to be pulled.  Even in December, I like to harvest something fresh from the garden.

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