We picked our asian persimmons to
collect before hurricane winds and rains imposed stress to the trees.
There are last gourds to pick and peppers still hang from their shrubs,
we will go out for them in the daylight tomorrow. Many leaves have
fallen in this last day and perhaps more as winds still blow through the
night. Temperatures are forecasted to return to mild and cooling as the
sun’s angle shifts lower. Winter is to come, our cat is purring loudly
under the covers.
Fall wild harvesting activity includes collecting acorns for making into flour
A special time for a most intimate of
garden activity is the fall season. Here are methods of permaculture
management and ecological garden care practices for preparing the fall
garden for a kinetically fertile winter, when it will rest and reload:
* The remaining vegetation of annual crops
can be cut at just below the ground level (dig your pruners into the
ground and cut just below the stem at the roots). This will leave the
root mass in the soil to feed soil organisms, decomposing into humus and
recycling nutrition in your soil. Chard however will form....Read the rest here
