From the monthly archives:

October 2003

The First Snow

October 22, 2003

No! Not snow. We’re not ready. We have too many fall chores left, and we really worry that snow is a sign that the season is almost over. Oh. I just looked to see when the first snow was last year. I guess maybe then that this isn’t too early. But it is! We’re not [...]

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Fall’s Fallen

October 21, 2003

I hate it when I travel in October, and somehow it seems to happen every year. I’ve been gone for nine days, and I missed my favorite season! Peak has come and gone while I’ve been out in California and Texas. And of course, the weather is so rainy and wet that we are constantly [...]

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Ten Thousand Years of Woodsmoke in October

October 14, 2003

Last night I was watching the sunset from the balcony. It was cooling down, and I’d lit the woodstove at lunchtime. The last leaves were still beautiful, and I caught a whiff of smoke on the breeze. It all just seemed so right, so comfortable. Somehow, that bit of woodsmoke made the dying year and [...]

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Mushroom Musings

October 14, 2003

I think we can call the mushroom season over, so I want to sum things up for future years. On the wild mushroom front we’ve done well: we’ve learned to recognize several very good species. Puffballs, chanterelles and sweet teeth in all show promise. Unfortunately I don’t like the texture of the little puffballs as [...]

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Last planting. This time for sure.

October 13, 2003

No gardening over the weekend. Saturday I cut and stacked firewood after taking Lisa to the airport. Sunday rained all day. One more package from Dutch gardens today. Their website listed hardy (zone 4) glads, and also grecian windflowers rated for zone 4 instead of the usual zone 7. We’d been reading about people wintering [...]

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New worm bin

October 10, 2003

I haven’t been too happy with our worm bins. (From Magic Worm Ranch). The drain seems to stop up, the worms don’t seem to thrive, and harvesting the worm castings takes an hour or so of manually fishing out worms. After looking around, I bought a Worm Factory from Composters.com. It’s a five bin tower. [...]

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More bulbs, mulch delivery

October 9, 2003

Frank finally broke down and let me order a new truckload of pine bark mulch. I was whining that because I’m the one who does the majority of the weeding, and because we ran out early this year, he doesn’t see how much it helps. I know it robs nitrogen, but my thought is that [...]

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