Well after 3 weeks of no gardening (1 weekend due to snow, and two weekends due to being sick) I finally got back into the garden to do some cleaning up. This is what I started with.
A bunch of bolted lettuce (the tall stuff on the left side of the picture), a lot of dead bean vines, dead squash vines, and dead tomato vines.
The first stop was cleaning up the purple hull cowpeas (think black-eyed peas if you are wondering what these are). That didn’t take long but the ground turned out to be a little soggier than expected. At one point the mud sucked my shoe right off my foot. Next up were the green, burgundy and wax beans. I got every thing cleaned out and was inspecting my work when I found this guy:
Not sure what kind of snake he is, but he’s not a very happy snake at this point. After this, I cleaned off the fence where I had my pole beans.
Then it was off to clean out the bolted lettuce. Bolted lettuce can be kind of pretty.
Both the Red Romaine and bright green oakleaf lettuces have bolted.
The best part of the day happened when I went to get the glove hanging on the fence post so I wouldn’t get a blister while I was moving the dead stuff over to the compost bin. A green anole (they can change like chameleons which is why he’s brown) came out of glove to visit with me.
When I tried to stick Mr. Lizard on a tree so I could go back to work he ended up checking out my hand and arm.
I think he needed a bit of a nap, but I wanted to go back to work.
I finished up with pulling the tomato vines.
The only thing I did after pulling the tomato vines was some weeding and breaking up the dirt. Hopefully by Christmas Eve Day it will dry out and I can start planting again!
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I just picked the last of my lettuce a week or so ago and am rationing it out as long as it will last in the fridge. Come on. spring!
Love the lizard but you can keep the snake.
Trust me… I didn’t go anywhere near the snake other than to photograph it.
And I’m waiting for the ground to dry out a bit before I plant any more. They say that on tuesday and wednesday we have a 30 and 40% chance of rain. Hopefully it will remain just a chance.