I am keeping a list of garden plans as the summer winds down.
Find out about growing beans for drying-kidney, pinto. How many to plant?
Build a new compost bin in a more convenient spot.
Rain barrels? Find out about local regulations.
Add two new garden boxes for next summer's garden, reducing lawn area.
Plant two apple trees-look into espalier trees
Remove old roses in front yard and add something deer resistant.
Plant three blueberry bushes that will work in our climate.
Plant fall/winter garden: peas, broccoli, spinach, lettuce, carrots, green onions.
Learn about winter cover crops.
"If mothers could learn to do for themselves what they do for their children when these are overdone, we should have happier households. Let the mother go out to play! If she would have the courage to let everything go when life becomes too tense, and just take a day, or half a day, out in the fields, or with a favourite book, or in a picture gallery looking long and well at just two or three pictures, or in bed, without the children, life would go on far more happily for both children and parents. The mother would then be able to hold herself in "wise passiveness’ and would not fret her children by continual interference even of hand or eye - she would let them be." Charlotte Mason
My garden is a continual source of rejuvenation for me and time spent thinking about it and working in it is time well spent.
Barb-Harmony Art Mom
