My Chicago Garden

Sorry for the delays in posting. Here’s a rundown of September. 

Four weekends ago we harvested the red clouds potatoes  

Two weekends ago I made my order for garlic from Seeds of Change. My notes from last year say they should arrive in November sometime. I’ll be growing a soft-neck variety next year called ‘Chilean Silver‘.

Last weekend I finished building the two-bin compost system. I used the diagrams from Lowe’s (BTW their instructions are wrong) and $200 in materials. I have one bin already full and one is waiting for the leaves to fall.

On Saturday we visited the Morton Arboretum (pronounced Martin Har-Bore-eat-um by Teagan) for their bulb sale and purchased an arm full of Crocus and assorted bulbs.

We had our official start of fall today.  We ate lunch inside at Scooby’s today, which means fall has begun at our house.  I also filmed a short garden tour and our potatoe harvest for Eric over at gardenfork.tv.  I suspect he’ll post it as soon as he can do the edits. If not..I’ll post it here. I also picked up two bales of straw from the Barn Owl Feed and Garden for over-winter cover in the garden .

Next weekend we are going for our yearly apple picking pilgrimage. We are heading back to Royal Oak Orchard like last year. Yeah!

Oh yeah…I purchased a used high-quality digital camera (costs $600 new) from a friend of mine for my wife, Melissa. Melissa has been showing an interest in photography again, and since she needs a hobby I’m trying to encourage her to get out and do it.

One last thing…be on the lookout for first frost. On average we should be getting it in the next 3-4 weeks.  Long term forecast has us safe for another 7-10 days, but all bets are off after that.