After so many warm weather autumns, this one has taken us by surprise. It has been colder than normal and we even have some snow that fell three days ago and is still sticking to the grass.
I had sprayed my shrubs with rabbit repellent for the winter but hadn't put up the fencing around them or wrapped those in burlap that needed winter protection. I bought three bales of straw and only had one down on the parsnips and carrots to try and keep the ground from freezing. The potted shrubs just barely got dug in to the garden before the ground got to hard to get a shovel in. I peeled apart the last two frozen straw bales to finish heeling the shrubs in. The fence and burlap was a quick job before the snow fell.
There is a slight warm up coming in the next week in which I am hoping to dig up some of the parsnips and all of the carrots. I also need to cut down my two story high sweet autumn clematis for the winter. There just aren't enough hours in the day or energy in my system!
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