Mulching! - October 17, 2019 @goldenoakfarm by goldenoakfarm

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Mulching! - October 17, 2019 @goldenoakfarm
I got out to the butchershop just after 6AM and started cleaning. My helper friend showed up around 8AM and between the 2 of us, we were done by 10:30. It was nowhere near as bad as I had expected. I guess I’d forgotten we’d done it about 10 days before they put grass seed down, so the dust didn’t get bad. We had a couple hours left and I wasn’t wiped out, so I decided we’d get the part of the garden I’d weeded mulched, as far as the mulch went.

![Big garden - mulching half done crop October 2019.jpg](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmUoyVw473r9UkDtYzfUjnjHiJJUKUEamTd9Vfs9fE3Lzt/Big%20garden%20-%20mulching%20half%20done%20crop%20October%202019.jpg)

We moved the mulch by the azalea and dug up the mound of dirt under it. Then we moved it over by the bulbs to fill a hole I’d dug for soil to fill bulb pots. Then we mulched that whole area. I discovered that many of the transplants hadn’t been properly mulched when moved so we did that. With the last of that load of mulch we started working west, into the cleaned out dill/hollyhock area.

![Big garden - over half mulched crop October 2019.jpg](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmZas8v9u6dpLfryxKSvP9EZEx5n4TCFYUTEdQEbnHMLBP/Big%20garden%20-%20over%20half%20mulched%20crop%20October%202019.jpg)

With that mulch down, it means the best part of ⅔ of this garden is weeded and mulched.  My husband will bring me in another load of mulch over the weekend and hopefully I can finish the weeded area.

![Calendula for dehydrator crop October 2019.jpg](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmP31wpVYnzRFA9pFbT1mn5JPrQ3c6fEhXKHVBmFQyT5LH/Calendula%20for%20dehydrator%20crop%20October%202019.jpg)

When we were working over by the azalea, I noticed the calendula had a lot of flowers on it. So I harvested them for the dehydrator.

![Small garden - left to clean out crop October 2019.jpg](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmdesJVVUc11DyT39UJDkEM2tks2PjcnY1TVzEkHBDorPY/Small%20garden%20-%20left%20to%20clean%20out%20crop%20October%202019.jpg)

Next week the push will be to finish cleaning out this small part of the Small garden, prep the area, plant the garlic, and mulch it.

When that’s done, we can return to the Big garden and work on cleaning the rest of that out. If it hasn’t gotten too cold, I might get the fence area dug and the fence up. This is my last big project in the gardens this year.

There’s tons more gardens needing done, but they will have to wait until next spring.
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@fitinfun ·
If that is the small part of the small garden, wow! What do you do with the dried calendula flowers? Tea?

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@tipu ·
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@goldenoakfarm ·
The Small garden measures 30' x 36' and the Big garden measures 42' x 60'.

The calendula goes into skin salve and to feed to the layers in winter when they have no growing things.
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@goldenoakfarm ·
Thank you!
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