Drowsy Harvest Days

Everything is winding down in my garden. I have a couple of squash left, some cucumbers, green peppers, and the last of my tomatoes blushing then turning that thrilling deep red. There is a drowsiness in the air, which is Fall, which I love. My neighbor (another neighbor) helped me make meals for the freezer, and we used a pepper and some green onions. I feel proud that we are eating up my produce. And I've been sharing, that feels good to.

Time to cover my garden to get it ready for it's winter's sleep. My neighbor and I were looking at my garden yesterday and talking about what to plant next year. It's a gardener's mindset.

As for my herbs. . .they are coming in for the winter! I'm working on a whole shelf of herbs! And I got an unfinished peg board with a shelf on top to show off pictures of. . . the garden??? Now don't think of me as the 'cat lady' of gardens. I just need something to nurture. I nurture just about anything that comes to hand! Isn't finding something or someone to care for the best way to live? I think so.

On my short list of projects--painting my peg board, shelf.

Fall is good.

Garden Bliss

I have Zucchini, crookneck squash, cucumbers and almost ripe tomatoes. How did that happen?!

Well of course I know how that happened. The season has turned and it is nigh on harvest time.

I was talking to my neighbor, when we were musing on planting our starts just before Spring, and he said I could plant a batch of lettuce in the Spring and then again in August. August! That is so far away—it would never come! Now it's here! The first batch of lettuce has bolted. (I like to tell my husband that because it is garden speak for 'gone to seed'. I never know what engineer speak is for anything!) And soon I will be picking everything I planted and trying to find good ways to eat it up—I always plant too much. I love watching it grow so much!  Sharing is good--like we learned in kindergarten. Everything You Need to Know You Learned in Kindergargen, like the title of that book says?  I think that's the best way to live.

I have been growing herbs and learning how to use them as well. I am working on getting them dried. Everything is going so fast!  How do I hold on?

Just enjoy the ride?