November Garden

Despite a couple of cold days, this November has been especially warm. Until a few days ago, flowers still  bloomed, including this rose—a slip of which I brought from Mama's yard in 1999.

Along the same wall as the rose, the Rose of Sharon bushes have lost their leaves, but marigolds kept blooming.

A closer view:

A profusion of mums by the gazebo held on:

But the vegetable gardens are gone. Recently I ate the last of the peppers from the little vegetable garden. Everything else, except for a few gone-to-seed onions, is history.

Two weeks ago, the lower garden looked like this—a tangle of tomato vines and peppers and weeds.

My husband bush-hogged over it . . .

. . . and it soon looked like this:

Then he tilled it . . .

. . . until it looked like this:

So has does my garden grow? It doesn't. Check back in the spring.

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