More fall plantings

After more traveling for both pleasure and work I finally found some time to finish planting the seedlings I purchased at the end of last month and do some general gardening. Even though we've had some chilly weather, Brendan and I both spent the early afternoon playing in the garden today--he replanted some of our succulents (his favorite plants in the garden) and I got our new kale in the ground and moved a couple unhappy plants to (hopefully) better locations.

Because the Toscano kale from last season did so well in our yard I put in another six-pack, along with a new variety that is supposed to get red in cold weather, but turns green when cooked. I cut down the leggy stalks of last season's Toscano and hopefully it will come back in again this year (Dad recommends that I cut them off, the person I talked to at BHN said to replace them with new seedlings, so we’ll see what happens!). To continue to try to salvage our clay soil I worked in last year’s mulch and added a full bad of WonderGrow compost. Hopefully this will help them continue to be pretty pest-resistant (while the Toscano was quite hardy it did attracted aphids a couple of times). I will have to continue to be on the lookout for slugs and snails though since they feasted on the pumpkin in the same plot and had already started to munch on the seedlings before I got them in the ground.