The space-time continuum
Mom is a New-England expatriate, so the
summer that seemed so strange to me was reminiscent of her
childhood. She predicts we'll see our first frost very early
this year --- September 21.
What do you think? To make guessing easier, our average
first-frost date is October 10. I'm hoping we'll stave off
frost for as long as possible since we've yet to taste our first
fig of the year and the tree is loaded.
We've had so much
rain recently that our experimental
pond has
overflowed its banks, spreading duckweed throughout the back
garden. Isn't it astonishing how
quickly duckweed reproduces?
In the vegetable garden, Kayla has been doing over half
my work for the last month or two. I feel a bit guilty when
she's out there weeding instead of me, but I always find plenty of
other work to do. Apparently, gardening time is like a pot
of soup --- you'll fill it all the way to the top no matter how
much space/time is alloted. Or maybe it's just the
astonishing amount of fruit needing processing this summer that
has used up all that spare time.
I know this post is
disjointed, but all three elements somehow join together in my
head, meshing in some odd way along with my fuzzy recollection of
the space-time continuum. Or maybe I just really wanted to
post a bunch of pictures and needed words to go with them.
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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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I'm predicting a cold, early winter. Partly because we've had such mild winters for the past couple of years, partly because summer seems like it never really got started. I called someone for firewood and he said he never has orders for firewood this early but this year he has several people in line already. As for the acorn "test", I haven't seen any yet.
I also wish we had designed our coop better. The things that have been the hardest is that the eggs are not easy to get to and we have had to keep modifying the coop because of various predators (bears ripping off pieces, bobcats ripping through wire, raccoons pulling chicken legs through wire, etc).
From what I've gathered you seem to be a few weeks behind where we are as far as things ripening. I am sure your figs will ripen up in a few weeks.
I'm going to just take a wild guess and say first frost October 12th for your area just to see if I'm right.