Just because summer’s over doesn’t mean tending your garden is finished for the year.There’s still some work to be done, and t
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Taking the effort to clean up the vegetable garden beds in fall makes it very easy to begin growing the following spring.I have mixed emotions each autumn as the gardening season comes to a close. Since our growing season is short, there is usually a preserving marathon in September and most of my time is spent in the kitchen attempting to keep up with all the harvest bounty that comes in all at once.
The vegetable garden gets very little attention during this time except for the daily walkthroughs to harvest what is ripe. There is no time for weeding, trimming, or making careful assessments as to the health of the plants. They are on their own, and either succeeds or fails.
By the time frost arrives in October, most of the garden is a mess of dead or dying plants, weeds, and rotting tomatoes. There will be no more tomatoes to process except for those still ripening on the kitchen counter. No more zucchini to preserve, cucumbers to turn into pickles, or string beans to can.
As the gardening season comes to a close, I am bursting with feelings of gratification and fulfillment as I preserve the harvest and fill our basement shelves with storage crops and jars of food. THIS is the reward for the hard work that has gone into growing and tending to the plants all season long. THIS is the compensation for all the time spent washing, chopping, and the late nights spent canning so the house can cool down overnight.
I am both relieved and a little sad when the majority of the garden harvest ends each
Just because summer’s over doesn’t mean tending your garden is finished for the year.There’s still some work to be done, and t
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