The late summer planting of buckwheat did its duty and just last week we mowed it over. The growth was incredibly vigirous and reached almost three feet in places. But the rains knocked much of it over. We'll leave it just like this as a good winter cover until the first spring work up.
The raspberry bed's first winter off is serving as our kale and collard patch with some Asian mustard greens on one end to get us into late fall. Once the hard freezes arrive we'll put a spun fiber cover on the kale and collards to minimize winter deep freeze damage.
There's really nothing like running out to the garden and grabbing a Nappa cabbage and some Asian and mustard greens and doing a quick stir fry. The precise reason why everyone should have a kitchen garden!
