Done before the first snow!

*checks the weather forecast for the next week or so*

Done well before the first snow!

A stained patch of driveway where the last of the mulch pile sat, with two plastic buckets bearing the remnants of that pile.
A partial view of the back yard from the living room, with fresh mulch around and in the vegetable beds and under the recently trimmed mulberry tree, and brilliantly red leaves on the maple tree, offset by neighboring trees that are still mostly green or lightly yellow.
A freshly place patch of mulch in the front garden near the black rasperries. A pair of white pumpkins site nearby, waiting for their trip to the back yard to become compost.

And, delightfully, done mulching for the season.

For those of you following along at home, we went through about 35 cubic yards of mulch this year, dispersing it to a mix of previously and newly mulched areas, such as around the raised beds in the vegetable garden (old) and creating a back perimeter path (new). Our most recent new spot, which finished out the mulch pile, is in the front yard, set up for a variety of fruit that will be growing in the area.

Normally, I’d say we’re done gardening for the season. It is, after all, November. But the growing season has been entirely weird, I picked some raspberries earlier this week and we have some white strawberries still, though I don’t expect those will have time to ripen. It’s warm enough that weeding can still happen, which is really just a head start for spring weeding.