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Ahh, the sounds and smells of autumn, the changing light levels, the garden still madly going until the
hard freeze. Yes, autumn. But why is it autumn and
not fall? Or is it fall and not autumn? In Australia
they always referred to it as autumn; here we know
it as fall. Is it because all the leaves fall off the trees?
The acorns and beech nuts are dropping like crazy.
I have no idea, but I am glad the season has finally
arrived. I am ready for a break.
Despite the garden’s dryness, I have been able
to harvest pounds of broccoli and a good number
of tomatoes. Underneath all the weeds I am finding
vegetables. The onions were the best crop I have
ever had; the potatoes, meh; the garlic was good; the
beans produced really well until they got lost under
the weeds, and now I just have a bunch of beans for
the soup pot. The peppers were also well hidden
until I caught sight of red orbs amongst the weeds.
I haven’t dug the sweet potatoes yet – next week is
the plan for that – but it was certainly hot enough for
them this summer. I managed to get enough flowers
for a bouquet each week from the flowers I planted
in the vegetable garden, but the rest of the garden
is a disaster.
When I got home last night, I noticed a bunch of
the guinea hens hanging out under the bee hive. The
bloody birds were picking off the bees as they were
flying back to the hive. I found some extra electric
fencing we had hanging around, and we wrapped
the electric fence that is protecting the hive from the
bear with the netting to protect the hive from the
birds. Talk about opportunists.
Walking through the nuttery on the way back from
our early morning dog walk, I noticed hazelnuts on a
few of the bushes. Yay! I think I noticed them because
of the light. They are really well camouflaged and it
was pure luck that I found them. I harvested three
whole nuts. Yup, three. My first ever. Hopefully this
will be the beginning of harvestable age. It’s a good
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pretty good. I’m finding it encouraging.
I still haven’t ordered my spring bulbs and I really
have no idea why. The catalogs are dog eared and
well marked, I just haven’t gotten around to placing
the order yet. It isn’t that I am ordering any special
bulbs, or limited supply bulbs, which is good, since
they would most likely be sold out by now. Maybe
now that the weather is turning cooler and fall is
here, I will get my act together and place the orders.
Then, of course, they will all have to be planted, but
that can happen far later in the fall then we think it
can. I have planted them Thanksgiving weekend
with without any problems. Maybe I have been just
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Not much else on the gardening front. Tomatoes
on the stove are becoming sauce; I can never have
enough sauce. Buckwheat and winter rye are planted
in the empty beds. I have a hose to repair (go figure,
fixing a hose now in the season), but stuff is dry and
the darn hose that goes our to the vegetable garden
was punctured by a nail. Argh. Basil is being harvested and made into basil balls for the freezer so I
have basil for pizzas all winter long. Broccoli is being
frozen. You know, just stuff happening, but nothing
earth shattering. Well, onwards in the garden.
Allison Kerwin is the owner of The Enchanted
Garden, a garden design and maintenance company.
The Enchanted Garden is based in Hancock.
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The Walpole Historical Society will present
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and performed by Jeanne Austin at 7 p.m. on Friday,
September 30th at the Walpole Town Hall.
Louisa May Alcott, best known for her classic
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The Keene Partner City Committee is an official
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