When I was asked to write an article about gardening, I was excited! Herein lies another outlet for me to gab about gardening. Anyone who knows me, knows not to ask me a gardening question unless you really want a hardcore gardening answer. Gardening is my passion. I could talk about gardening for hours, and hours, and more hours. That being said, the hardest aspect of writing an article about gardening was deciding on what topic to write about first in approximately 350 words. Oh, be still my heart.
On with it then…Here we are in the joyous season of Fall. Autumn. The spooky season. All things pumpkin spice. Harvest time. The days are rapidly growing shorter and colder and it is kind of the wrong time of year to start a writing a news column on gardening. The garden season is winding down. Right? Wrong my friends.
It is a common misconception that the garden season is coming to an end with the end of summer. I prefer to say that the outdoor growing season is coming to an end. For me, gardening is an all year undertaking. My winter is filled with crop planning, perusing seed catalogs, taking inventory of my seed stock, plant sourcing, research and garden dreaming. Soon it will be February and time for me to start indoor seeds for onions, peppers and other long season crops.
