Monday 19 October 2015

Harvest Home

There has been a finality about today that suits the end of October. I mowed the car parks and larger areas of the garden with the tractor, whilst Nicky and David took care of the hand mowing. That will be the last cut this year as the ground will now be too wet to cut without damaging the grass. All around us the apple trees keep dropping their fruit, sometimes with dangerous consequences, it can really hurt if you get clunked on the head with an apple falling from a great hight! It was definitely time to pick them. Whilst Alyson laid out the harvest with neatness and care in the apple store, we climbed up ladders and even the trees themselves to gather the best specimens. I always enjoy this part of gardening, reaping the rewards of the years toil, although the apple trees do it without any help from us. The vegetable plots have now been stripped of the summer produce and any weeds, leaving tidy rows of winter greens, Jerusalem artichokes, parsnips and sweede. All we must do now before the threatened bad weather arrives is cut down the ornamentals, such a shame to contemplate when they are still looking so fabulous, but if we are in danger of loosing working days to snow and ice we must start soon.

"Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven't planted"
David Bly

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