One week until Canada's Thanksgiving Day. It is beginning to feel and look like fall. Garlics were planted last week by Ted. He likes marking them with stakes. 130 cloves planted. In a month or so, he'll spread a layer of straw on them. Let's hope they do better in this spot than this year's garlics did behind the shop. This is the highest point in our garden. Gardening is an experiment, isn't it?
Our neighbour's maple is looking like it should at this time of year.
And, dahlias are finally rid of their earwig pests.
The perennial garden has an autumnal look to it now.
And, some of our newere dahlias are finally happy.
In the vegetable garden, succession plantings are doing just fine. Don't look too close or you might see that the Chinese cabbage leaves have been munched on. I'll use them in this yummy and cheap casserole. When we give vegetables away, we say to ourselves, "Would I give this to the queen?" If not, we eat them.
The older plantings of perennial spinach and kale are pretty well free from pests now. That's a benefit of cooler weather gardening. Today's lunch with old friends will include a salad made from many of these greens.
This snapdragon has been blooming all summer in the greenhouse. I love the colour it adds to the space.
Peppers that were planted late summer are bearing nicely. Well, the short season ones are. I should have paid more attention when I planted them. The other variety I planted at that time are around the size of a large blueberry. Oops!
Some pest has found the perpetual spinach in the greenhouse. Do you see some holes in the leaves?
In the woods, the odd fungus is emerging.
Ted still has some more wood-splitting fun ahead of him as we head into the late fall and winter. This will be for the winter of 25/26.
And, to finish our walk, next year's soil. From this vantage point it doesn't look too soil-like, but I've been compressing it and layering it with rotted leaves from last year. It's fairly dense under this latest dump of cosmos and tomato plants. I think it will be fine. Fine dirt.
“I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.”
L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
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