We cleaned up our gardens over the weekend after the final harvests and got them all lightly tilled and planted with cover crops. Harvested the last of the peppers and tomatoes. Dug the sweet potatoes after flopping the vines to one side of the row like a bad 'comb-over'. That made it easy to roll up the vines about 50' at a time. Rolled those large 'logs' of tightly rolled up vines onto the FEL and hauled to the compost pile. Then we dug the Kenebec potatoes.
After everything was cleared, a light tilling over all areas prepped the gardens for the cover crop seed. I used oats on the gardens that will be planted next spring, since they will freeze out this winter and not interfere with early tilling. I've been prepping a couple areas for future plots to allow some rotation in a year or two. Those areas got a good seeding of winter rye. That should grow to at least 6' next year and have some good deep roots to break up the soil. Rye tends to suppress weeds too.
We had 34* Sunday morning, with a light frost, so the timing of our clean up was perfect.
