Gardening

Just love those Autumn colours. I have three with a couple of purple leaved sandsomethingorothers in between.

The garlic is off to a good start, but with all of the squirrels digging around, I suspect most of it is now just barely below the surface, so I'll be sure and put some straw over and around, and I keep meaning to get a large sheet of clear or mostly clear plastic to drape over the surrounding 'corral' I've got around it to keep dogs out.

I'm excited that in only a few more months the apple tree I bought last year will arrive, having spent the last year strengthening up from being grafted. Roter Stettiner, a variety in cultivation in Germany since the late 1500s. It will replace a sour cherry that broke in wind sheer remnants from hurricane Ike back in 07-08, giving me a row of three apple trees along the back (south) fence of the property.