The weather is changing quickly here, with relatively heavy, early rains yesterday and today.  Spent the weekend harvesting the last of the summer crops, putting the garden to bed, and planting the last of the fall/winter vegetables.  Pulled the soaker hoses, piled up the bedraggled tomato, bean and peppers plants, and harvested the last of the peppers, which around here hang on longer than most (all?) other annual vegetables.  Pictured above are the last of the lovely purira peppers, hot and delicious.  Planted fava beans, garlic, shallots, and Egyptian walking onions – multiplier onions are ordered and in the mail.

I also finished up fencing for phase one of the food forest.  Long-term, I have this idea that I’ll create a hedgerow using jujube or some other sharp plants, but in the interim, I need to shield the young shrubs from herds of hungry deer. Fortunately, over the years I’ve accumulated enough t-posts and miscellaneous scraps of fencing to weave together a credible barrier, sufficient to protect the riot of mustards, legumes, alliums, sorrel, asparagus, carrots, radishes, epazote, shiso, and countless seeds I’ve scattered and forgotten that will hopefully emerge in the spring.