Late Summer
As the number of visitors to our garden winds down, we shift our attention. The vegetable garden needs a little love and we need to get cracking with harvest and preservation of all that food. So it begins. A few other small chores that were put off during the height of summer can now be addressed and we can sink into autumn a little easier. It never really ends on two acres. I keep telling myself the work will become less someday. The reality is that the nature of the work changes, but not the time. We're not doing so much heavy labor such as spreading two units of gravel every other summer . . . compost too, building chicken coops and paths and planting trees. Rather it's more maintenance and assessing, removing, harvesting, watering, mulching and mowing. Easier but just as time-consuming. Oh, I do go on, don't I? Let's get into the photos of the garden as the last of the summer sun warms us. The veggie garden I thought was off to a good start in the greenhouse, but t...
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