Thank you, Commentor CCL:
A bit of illness has me unable to do much but stare out the window, read, and reflect on the past year. The garden has been a focus of ours beginning in 2020 (yes, COVID lockdown), but only this last year have we started to think about the Fall and Winter views. Because of being a bit bed ridden with the luxury of not being able to do anything else, I thought I could write up our efforts on the Fall bit. Perhaps photos of the Southern New England, October Garden will be interesting to other BJ Jackals.
The top photo is of the vegetable garden behind the house with some of my Better Half’s cobblestone walkway work. (It’s New England, just put a shovel in the ground and up come rocks. They increase in size underground, like dahlia tubers.) Straight ahead is the aster bed, then field, then thicket for the birds, then in the far background, tree line marking the edge of the property.
Now, throughout the years, I have had vegetable gardens – from the desultory variety where the plants get shoved in and are expected to take care of themselves on their own, to more determined attempts where I am willing to water a bit in droughts. But this one, this one is my “best ever garden.”
I loved every minute of caring for it during 2022. We are looking to the Northeast. The garden is on the diagonal. The corners of the garden are East, South, West and North. The walkways inside the little garden are wide enough that I put the potatoes and carrots growing in bags on them with plenty enough space for me to get around.
The light in the garden will change next year. The sugar maple that is just barely visible on the left at the edge of the house died and has since been cut down. It was one of a beautiful pair that we are still mourning. It was always so brilliant in the fall. Its companion (outside the photo) has also been doing poorly, but we are hoping it will recover.
The second photo is on the other side of the house and is what one sees when one drives up our driveway. (The photo faces Southeast.) We did the “no mow May” well into July in field part in front of the woods. We were thrilled with the discovery of a maiden’s tresses orchid – which I knew from Albatrossy’s posts.
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