Tuesday, October 30, 2012

New Blog Post: Putting Your Beds to Bed

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

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