Fall is in the air throughout the country–it might be cooler and wetter in the Northeast and dry in our southern states–however it is harvest season wherever you are.
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Well , I am back from about a calendar month in the Ozarks , where I worked at and attended the Fall Harvest Fall Festival at the Ozark Folk Center ; participate in “ Becoming an Outdoors Woman in Arkansas ” ; showed my mom and sisters how beautiful the mountains are there — the Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree and native shrubs are just start to change to the nightfall colors ; paint my acquaintance Tina Wilcox ’s home ; work and played with some sport folks ; haul donkeys back and away , and listened to some not bad music , just to mention a few things …
A number of herbies journey from all over the country to attend the event and many of them were from Texas , nearby Arkansas and Missouri and all of them lament the lack of rain in their southerly climes . Some are recede big old tree diagram and unless garden were watered , only the stiff plant have exist the drouth . It is wry , dry , juiceless .
On the other hand , those of us from the East coast and northern state , have had so much rainfall , our garden were soggy and could n’t be take the air in for the preceding few month . Tomatoes split on the vine from too much water and summertime vegetable and herbs like basil , sat and pouted .
Too much , or not enough — these are the run and tribulations of we gardeners . However , most of us are not about to give up . Every new year , we stargaze and have hopes and plan for the best garden ever . And then by the close of the growing time of year , this time of class , we are infest with weeds and a bit weary of constant harvesting and preserving . This is the time of year to give thanks for the bounteousness gathered and pop out to tidy up the garden . Before we know it , we ’ll be raking and doing forest chores and posture by the stove with our 2012 catalogue ( which are already starting to come and it is n’t even Halloween yet ! )
The real impetus — the first frost — will post us skitter to pick the last of the black pepper , catch the immature tomato and cut the sweet basil back one last time . Or cover them with float row cover to extend the season as long as potential . float row cover get along in a number of thicknesses and I practice a punishing gradation on the baby greens , as well as the brassicas , simoleons , chard and dauntless herbs like Petroselinum crispum and coriander . If I cover these crops now , I can probably harvest through November in my Mid - Atlantic geographical zone 7 garden . In yr past , I have even lifted C - shroud row natural covering in December and harvested Petroselinum crispum and some of the sweetest cole that I have ever eaten .
While here at home , I am now sleeping under two or three blanket at dark and wearing sweatshirts in the morning and evening , I am about to channelize for Texas , where I have been separate it is still hot down there and to make for my summertime apparel .
Next calendar week , I will be in San Antonio , meetin ’ up with gardeners and herbal partizan and spreading the herbal word . My docket is as follows :
~ Thursday , October 13 , 6:30 pm — Garden Center , San Antonio — Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Herbsfor the San Antonio Herb Societywww.sanantonioherbs.org
~ Friday , October 14 , 9 am — KABB - TV“Daytime@9”—briefsegment on herbaceous plant
~ Saturday , October 15 , 9 to 5 post-mortem — San Antonio Herb Market 20th Annual Festival , Pearl Farmers ’ Market—11:30 amThe Mediterranean Herbsand 1 pmHerbs for Healthhttps://www.sanantonioherbmarket.org/
Hope to see you there or happy gardening at home !
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A sure sign of fall, pineapple sage is the last plant to bloom in my garden. Generally, it buds in September and the hummingbirds seem to wait around for it to bloom.Photo/Illustration: Susan Belsinger
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