Running a Muddy Trail
A Telling Chill to the Air
{ 10:53, 3 September 2008 }
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We're currently in the midst of a mini heat wave -- it is supposed to get up to 85 today. But earlier last week, we had some days where we wore pants all day (as opposed to shorts). The nights are regularly getting chilly and there is a crispness to the air which whispers sweet nothings into our ears about the glorious fall season that is just around the corner. It feels like cross country season!Back in August, I planted the first of the winter crops. Not fall stuff, not end of the season market stuff, but winter crops. This included a bed of spinach, a bed of arugula and some mache and beets that we expect to stay in the ground and growing well into, if not all the way through the winter, and in the case of the spinach and arugula, into the spring. These will be our first market of the season crops for 2009!
I loaded the raised beds up with compost and old manure and planted tidy little rows of seeds. These freshly tilled beds, of course, make the BEST scratching and peeing areas for the cat. So don't worry, the "tidy" rows won't stay TIDY for long. Things sprouted well and have generally survived the hot and dry-ish days well. I've had to do a bit of fill-in plantings, but that's how it goes. This is also the only time during the year that I have to do any watering at all, just to nurse the wee plants through the hot days I give them a little dousing at dusk the night before.With the Olympics over and done with, i have a bit of time here before the fall marathon season begins to get back into the gardening. I've also started going to middle school cross country practice a couple times/week, just because. We've been drying tomatoes non-stop and over the labor day weekend managed to put up quarts upon quarts of tomatoes, tomato sauce and salsa. That makes me feel a little bit more prepared to say goodbye to the summer, since we have a whole shelf of it stored away to enjoy in bits and pieces throughout the rest of the year.
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