Some hours in the garden with a number of tasks completed:
Planted all the rest of the garlic cloves in few rows.
Planted a row of lupines in the garden bed from seeds collected this week. In a row to be stratified over winter. The row is marked and labelled, one of a few, propagating perennial seeds over the winter months.
Collected nasturtiums for the compost and at the same time collected nasturtium seeds for next spring’s planting.
Harvested small onions for the kitchen.
Harvested the beets. To be processed this week.
Cleaned up pine needles.
Cleaned up all of the daylilies in preparation for winter.
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