Halloween planting

Despite being sick this weekend, I found some energy to purchase some new cold weather crops and get some of them into the ground. I decided to try broccoli again this season, but instead of getting some of the more visually interesting varieties I picked last year, I bought a heartier variety and amended the soil in the plot more this year. I turned over all the top soil, incorporating last year's mulch into the soil and applied new compost to try to keep improving our lovely clay soil. I decided to use WonderGrow organic compost from American Soil & Stone (a local supplier we get our potting soil from) since it worked well on the tomatoes we planted earlier this summer. I also planted some lettuce in the same plot--I talked to someone at BHN and they said now is better time to plant lettuce to avoid bolting, so we'll see. I also put in variety of beets in this plot and finally get around to planting the sweet pea seeds from last season's plants so we'll have lovely fragrant flowers again, come spring.