Over this Christmas break, we have been doing quite a bit of Garden Expansion work. We first filled in all the asparagus trenches that we dug out last Spring. Filling the trenches during the winter gives the asparagus roots more room to grow next year.
Next we increased the size of each of our 6 garden beds while putting in a barrier of concrete blocks. This creates a 3 sided border around each garden bed. The concrete border not only provides more thermal mass for the garden beds during cold spring/autumn nights but also serves as a mount for our future drip irrigation system. As we were setting in the blocks, a fog descended over neighborhood. I found it rather refreshing and more than a little bit mystical.I'm thinking of holding off on pruning the apple trees. There are still some leaves on them, and pruning is generally not recommended until the absolute dead of winter. This is due to the risk of infecting the living sap wood of the tree's limbs when cutting them in warmer weather.
