Fall Harvest Moon
Another half gallon or so of red and golden raspberries, the last carrots, the last greens, most of the last beets. A few tomatoes, mostly yellow and a pepper. The raspberries keep going, producing new berries faster than I pick them. The leeks have thickened up and are ready for making into chicken pot pies when I pull them in October.
The sky has that fresh, rain washed look, bright and filled with sun. Golden and red flecks have begun to show up. The birch, the euonymus have begun to turn. The Norwegian maple across the street lit up a week ago.
Our old harvesting baskets, woven reed from Vietnam, have worn out and gotten lost so we bought some garden hods, a U-shape of thick green 1/2″ mesh with a wooden handle and two wooden ends. This shape and configuration makes it easy to hose off the vegetable. That’s handy for root crops like beets, carrots and leeks. It worked as advertised and will see many more harvest seasons.
