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What ’s going on in your garden ? As the harvest time of year is peak and some of our summer vegetable and herbaceous plant plant are thread down , it is time for preserving , clean up up and getting ready to plant a few fall crop .
Tomatoes and chile peppercorn are coming in full tilt boogie in my garden . So we eat them daily naked as a jaybird , in salsas and sauce and cooked in every way conceivable . The nasturtiums , calendulas , sunflowers and marigold are top out adding their rowdy color to the garden Green River . Squash and cucumber have slowed down . Both St. Basil and summer savory , seasonal annuals have been cut back a few sentence already and what with the cooler night , they too are slowing down . Some of the squash and melon vine vines are dying or have died and it is time to pull them out . Of course the weeds are the most gung - ho of all of the plants – this time of the year our gardens start to look a bit unkempt .
The basil , mint , lemon balm , thyme and zesty have all been cut and hang in bunches or spread in baskets to dry . I have also made sirup and vinegars with the fresh - cut herbs . I made pickles and used a whole bloom / seed head of dill weed in each jar .
I have been saving lot of seed . dill weed and coriander germ have been dried , removed from stems , and bottle for culinary use . I ’ve been removing calendula germ heads as they turn brown , saving those seed for next year ’s planting and to divvy up with gardening ally , since they are plentiful .
Recently , I visit with my horticulture friend Deborah , who grows most of her vegetables and herbs from seed . So I have fall works like new baby kales , chard , Brassica oleracea italica , tatsoi , endives , chicories , radicchio and fall lettuce premix from her to plant out in the garden in the next week or so while the moon is still waning .
Right now I have to go tackle a bushel of Roma tomatoes ! … Enjoy the bounty – happy harvest season !
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The picnic table on the backporch holds the mother lode of garden bounty–the daily garden harvests are brought there before being brought into the kitchen or shared with visitors. Click on other pix to enlarge and read captions.Photo/Illustration: Susan Belsinger
