Harvest, Planted Carrots & Daikon & Radishes, Lots-o-Work

It's hard to believe, but I made THREE trips out to the plot today.   It was great weather and Wifey humored me in my attempts to make some progress preparing for winter and planting Fall crops.

Today's accomplishments included:

• Screened a good chunk (approx 1.5' depth) of the compost bin to remove residual vegetation that hadn't broken down this year.  This was done so I could replenish nutrients in the soil and avoid needing to buy more topsoil and/or leafgro.
• Removed the three ground cherries from the larger of the two boxes, replenished some of the soil in the box from the compost bin, planted Daikon radish seeds I purchased last year in their place, and fertilized all that.  It'll be interesting to see if there'll be anything to harvest before things get overly cool.  Might also give me reason to look into trying row covers.
• Filled in the areas I where I removed marigolds for Wifey last week with soil from the compost bin.  I then planted carrots in those locations.
• Added some radish seeds in the new radish box (formerly a cucumber box where the cucumbers didn't grow) then fertilized.
• Added some bone meal to a few volunteer tomato plants where the tomatoes weren't ripening.  Also added bone meal to the cucumber plants.  Nothing got beyond flowering in the one box this year.  I figure I might as well experiment and see if a lack of phosphorous was the problem.
• Watered everything.
• Picked all the green beans off the pole bean trellises.  Shelled most of them for drying and attempts to grow with next year.
• Cut down the pole beans in the box next to the runner beans then broke down the trellis.  I threw out the bamboo since it was dried out and brittle.  The fence material was saved for next year, though.  What a great find and free, too!
• Did a bit of weeding here and there.  Low on my list of priorities for today, but still necessary.
• Removed a marigold from the box next to the compost bin for Wifey's landscaping at the house then transplanted it in a pot on the porch.
• Installed two pieces of the 1/8" thick plastic along the fence I share with the Korean gentleman next door.  He has mint that keeps coming into the plot.  Hopefully, this will deter it somewhat.  I still need to add more, but this is a start.

It was a good day  Lots of progress made.  I feel accomplished.  Also, during one of the trips, Wifey took the kids and dog for a walk out at the plot site.  She said that our plot is roughly the 4th best looking one out there with the other three belonging to people who have a lot more time and experience than I/we do.  I take that as quite the compliment.  It's also nice to know that our plot is attractive and is pretty successful and I have a lot more to learn.

Lastly, I really didn't want to pick anything given we picked a lot of items Friday and a bit yesterday, however, The Boy can't help himself and wants to be helpful by harvesting items.  It's nice that he wants to be involved.  The bounty for today:

• 3.3 oz tomatoes
• 0.9 oz beans (this will be the last pole bean crop for the year)
• 0.4 oz cayenne peppers
• One 2" long green pepper
• Four 1.5"  long carrots
• Roughly 40 ground cherries (donated to a food kitchen during the 2nd trip to the plot)