The other stuff (old tomato, pepper, asparagus, and corn) could have been cleaned up at any time, but I was too slow for the first hard freeze. So when I realized the ground had thawed enough to pull them, I did so.
"BEFORE" PICTURES:
Peppers...
Peppers...
But I may replace the butterfly bushes. They are 15 years old and seem to grow weakly the past 2 years. Thinner branches come from the trunks. I think there are better varieties available recently. More compact, but with steadier repeat blooms. And as my selection of other plants has changed over the years, the purple butterfly bush flowers don't stand out as well as they used to. I think red would be better!
Also, you can see in some of the pictures that the soil level has dropped as organic amendments have been used up and some washout has occurred. Fortunately, I have a good pile of mulch that have been composting for 2 years and is now friable "soil". Time to add all that into the beds.
It's not that I haven't added good organic fertilizer to the beds the past years, but bulk counts too. And nothing beats good compost for THAT!
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