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| I collected three bags of seaweed-- mostly eel grass-- on the beach in Truro this morning. Kind of like this. |
The local coffee roaster, the Beanstock, gives away these great burlap bags. It's mid-October on Cape Cod. We have not yet had our first frost. I will be planting garlic in a new bed in a few days.
This is a pretty new garden, planted in an area that had been shaded by locust trees and overgrown with blackberry bushes. There is a small amount of topsoil (from the locusts) but it is pure sand a few inches down.
So far, I have had luck with swiss chard, arugula and lettuce, all of which are happy with the dappled light.
I add a lot of compost and composted horse manure as well as seaweed to the soil.
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| October: Large garlic cloves from a few varieties-- some saved from the summer crop. |
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| A layer of compost, organic fertilizer and seaweed. Then the cloves go in, followed by more of the same. |
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| Garlic bed ready for the winter! |
