“A garden is never so good as it will be next year.”— Thomas Cooper
By Snickers
Just, as many of us shift our focus and get ready for the short days and long, cold, snowy winter nights, our gardens need to shift focus as well. The crisp air of fall has arrived and my garden has been cleaned off and deep tilled and is ready to be put to rest for another season.
We have harvested the pumpkin and gourd crop from the country, the broom corn has dried and I have picked the decorative corn for my fall displays. My garden crops have given us seemingly endless delightful snacks and meals and everything has been either devoured or tucked away in the freezer or in jars for the long winter months to come. The combines are just starting to roll around here and we will be praying for everyone to have a safe harvest. I personally, will spend a few days in the “big green” going through the fields.
The apple season is upon us and I encourage you to take some time from your busy day to enjoy some hot apple cider. Try adding a few red hots to that cider and it will add a delicious cinnamon twist to the flavor. Yummy!! I love to decorate for the Halloween season! I pull out the witches and goblins and enjoy the pumpkins, gourds and nature’s other fall splendor right up until Thanksgiving.
I hope you enjoyed the garden season with me. So until next year, this garden gal is going to have nice nails again. Thanks to the IW ladies for allowing me to share my garden pictures and to all the posters for your wonderful comments.
“Autumn begins with a subtle change in the light, with skies
a deeper blue, and nights that become suddenly clear and
chilled. The season comes full with the first frost, the
disappearance of migrant birds, and the harvesting of
the season’s last crops.”
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I have enjoyed reading about your garden and enjoyed the beautiful pictures. I wish I had you for a neighbor!
So delightful…
snickers, what a glorious slice of life you’ve given us. Thank you!!!
Looking forward to spending time in your gardens next year! (Look out Martha Stewart!)
Your garden looked beautiful & I love your autumn decorations.
No gardening for me ~My green thumb is so bad I killed a lucky bamboo plant.
GORGEOUS!!!!
Snikers, your hard work certainly pays off. Fall is my favorite season; you make it look even better!
Thank you snickers for sharing your garden with us this year. It was our pleasure featuring it on Imperfect Women. One of the online publications picked this up for their site. You can find it here:
http://paper.li/Si_Jose/1309463304/2011/09/24
Thanks Pam and all the gals of IW for letting me share my garden. I really enjoyed doing this!! Until next season—.
Snickers it has been great seeing your garden! I always look forward to these posts!
Thanks pattypie. I am looking forward to a new slice of the pie soon. 🙂
Beautiful Snickers. I just love Fall…
Snickers, I have really enjoyed watching your garden grow, the harvest, and now these wonderful displays. Just gorgeous. I’m jealous of your freezer full and the yummy fresh tasting food you will be eating this Winter.
Thank you for sharing it all with us.
Thanks Samanatha and Lily, it has been a fun season, and yes Lily, we will enjoy all the good stuff this winter. Just put on a crockpot full of the few vegs left from the garden. These crisp nights makes for warm soup so good.
I loved strolling through your garden snickers. I hope all your hard work brings you a happy and satisfied winter. Thanks for sharing, it was so enjoyable!
Thanks BlogHawg, it was a fun project for me. I just wish everyone lived closer so I could have shared fresh things with them!! 🙂
Snickers,
I loved your garden. Your fall decorations are amazing. You gave me alot of good ideas for flowers that I might try next year. So thank you for sharing.
Lynn,
Your garden was amazing!! Glad you enjoyed my garden, but I enjoyed yours as well. Until next season——-please join the IW ladies on the other topics. I’m hoping to share another post this winter. 🙂
Snickers,
My garden isnt done yet. I wish it was. I feel like that barefoot and pregnant wife in the kitchen these days. Next 10 days still in 80s and low of 50. I dont know about talking about other topics.
Lynn,
Just join in, it’s fun!! Post if you want, don’t post if you don’t want to. I like the slice of pie, good eats!!
My garden is done, put the rest of the vegs in the crockpot today and made soup. Went to the country today and found some more gourds for the neighbor kids! I am ready for the season to be over, but our temps have been crazy to. We have not had a killing frost, just a lowline one and temps in the 80’s this week to. Indian Summer temps so the combines will be rolling. Well, barefoot in the 80’s is a good thing, the pregnant would not be so good. LOL.
I am pregnant!
Congrats!!!!!!!!!!! LOL, I meant me being prenant would not be good. Hope all is going well. I think you need to rest after the huge garden you had. Heading off to bed, keep us updated!! 🙂
Nite snickers.
Congratulations Lynn!
Congratulations, Lynn!!!
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I too so enjoyed following your garden this year, Snickers. Your comment about “nice nails” really resonated with me. I love to have nice nails too, but it doesn’t seem to go hand in hand with gardening does it? I still pick the gardening. Cheap therapy! 🙂
I have totally enjoyed reading about your garden and looking at the wonderful pictures. Thanks for sharing, snickers! I already can’t wait for spring LOL!
Thanks gals for all your nice comments. This is a fun hobby to share with all of you, and to preserve food for winter. I will be planting some new bulbs soon, and in the spring I hopefully have something new to see! 🙂
Snickers
I loved following you and your garden. Have you seen the magazine Mary Jane’s Farm? You would be a great contributor. I ordered that magazine as a form of escape as I feel we miss out on the “seasons” here in Los Angeles! Thanks for sharing.
Holly,
Yes, I subscribe to that. Also donated a subscription to my local library for others to enjoy. Another good magazine is Hobby Farms. You don’t need a huge space to have something beautiful in your yard. I enjoy the 4 seasons of the year even tho I will be complaining about snow when it comes. 🙂 Really, I have been so grateful to Pam and all the IW ladies to have shared this all with you.
Snickers,
That’s so funny I just received my first Hobby Farm Home (is that the magazine) and I love it. We have a friend who raises Alpacas and I am in love with them. Maybe in my next life!
Yes Holly, that’s the magazine. LOL. I just see small plots of green spaces that could harvest a garden or have a few flowers in them.
Thanks for the congrats. I got mad today and wiped out my peppers. I so wish this garden would end. Ill have a few new pics up soon if you want to see them.
Lynn,
I would love to see pics!! Hope all is going well!