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carrots I have in the ground awaiting the frost, I discovered golden raspberries large as my thumb.\u00a0 A real treat at this late stage in the year.\u00a0 They await the vanilla ice cream I’m going to buy when I go to the grocery store.<\/p>\nFall\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waxing Blood Moon<\/p>\n
Out in the garden this morning taking down plants that have finished their labors.\u00a0 Large cruciform vegetable plants grew from the seeds I started inside, but they never developed any fruits.\u00a0 They’re in the compost now.\u00a0 All the tomato vines save one have come down.\u00a0 The last tomato harvest went inside today, too.\u00a0 A few straggling yellow and orange tomatoes and a cluster of green tomatoes for a last fried green tomatoes.<\/p>\n
A new crop of lettuce, beets and beans are well underway, lending an air of spring to the dying garden.\u00a0 While examining carrots I have in the ground awaiting the frost, I discovered golden raspberries large as my thumb.\u00a0 A real treat at this late stage in the year.\u00a0 They await the vanilla ice cream I’m going to buy when I go to the grocery store.<\/p>\n
The 49 degree weather made doing these choirs a pleasure.\u00a0 Odd as it may seem, I like the fall clean-up part of gardening as well as I do any other part, perhaps a little bit more.\u00a0 Most of these plants I started as seeds in February, March or April and they have matured under my care, borne their fruits and run through their life cycle.\u00a0 From some of them I have collected seeds to plant for next year.\u00a0 The clean up then represents a completion that goes one step beyond the harvest.\u00a0 It honors these living entities by caring for their spent forms in the most full way possible:\u00a0 helping them return their remaining nutrients back to the soil.\u00a0 I want no less for myself.<\/p>\n
Got a new toaster and a new ladder in the mail yesterday from Amazon.\u00a0 Boy, shopping has changed.\u00a0 I rarely go to a big box store anymore, once in a while to Best Buy to check out DVD’s or for some computer accessory.\u00a0 I still go to hardware stores and grocery stores, the things you need weekly or right now or fresh, but everything else I buy online.<\/p>\n
The bee guy, Mark Nordeen, had to cancel again today.\u00a0 His wife, Kate’s colleague, got kicked in the head by her brand new black mare.\u00a0 E.R. and a concussion later she’s home off work.\u00a0 Guess I’m gonna have to figure out how to over winter my bees all by myself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Fall\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waxing Blood Moon Out in the garden this morning taking down plants that have finished their labors.\u00a0 Large cruciform vegetable plants grew from the seeds I started inside, but they never developed any fruits.\u00a0 They’re in the compost now.\u00a0 All the tomato vines save one have come down.\u00a0 The last tomato harvest went inside … Continue reading Fall Clean-up<\/span>