I finally found a bit of time to get the Ragtag Garden put to bed for the winter.

I hadn't checked the bin for at least a week. I'd left a few smaller radishes behind when all the bigger ones came out in the last harvest. It's purely a 'push the limits' type experiment. I've had absolutely zero expectation of growth.

The weather has been holding steady with mid to high 40's during the day, and mid 30's at night. No freezes yet. Barely any frost in the last week. Let's see how they're doing.

They seem happy enough in their little micro-climate. I haven't watered them for ages and don't plan on it. There seems to be enough ambient moisture to keep them from wilting.

A closer look reveals that they actually did grow a bit of new greenery. Color me surprised! I put the lid back on and left them snug in their mini-greenhouse.

The tomato, sweet banana pepper and the pole beans are obviously done. We've had a couple of light frosts over the last month, which brought a definitive end to their season. I left these alone, too. Mostly it was 'fussy' work and I was short on daylight. I can clean these up another day.

The transplanted brussels sprouts also succumbed to the frost. I pulled these up since they were still green and started a pile for the raised bed compost-in-place project.

The cabbage and the other brussels sprouts also met the same fate as the transplants. I didn't get any harvest from any of these plants. It was solely my fault for overcrowding them. Next year will be better, because I plan on HAVING another season. The garden may be Ragtag, but the plan doesn't have to be! (This year's plan was stick some stuff in the dirt and cross my fingers. LOL!)

The chairs were the last things I tucked away. It seemed a good way to put an official end to Season 1 of the Ragtag Garden. It's eerily similar to where we started, comparing the spring and fall pictures. Time to switch gears and put some focus on Revved Up Ragtag overall goals.

Thanks to all the great Homesteader and Gardening folks here for being the best support system one could ask for. Y'all rock!!

RECAP:

It started here - Reclaiming The Backyard Firepit
Which turned into this - Ragtag Garden

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The expansion of these two projects has now become The Ragtag Saga:

Revved Up Ragtag, Part 1
Revved Up Ragtag, Part 2
Revved Up Ragtag, Part 3
Revved Up Ragtag, Part 4
Revved Up Ragtag, Part 5
Revved Up Ragtag, Part 6
Revved Up Ragtag, Part 7

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