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Happy Autumnal Equinox!

September 22, 2012 by Christina

Wow, it’s the first day of fall.  
Apple abundance is always a part of this transition time of year in the garden.
Pomona, the Roman goddess of fruit trees, gardens and orchards hangs out around here,  I’m sure I feel her presence.  I read somewhere that the pruning knife was her sacred tool!

This year the apples are flourishing again, ready for harvesting and we’ve been eating lots.

These are one of my favourites, Spartans. They’re just now ready to harvest and eat and store.

This is a Gravenstein and we’ve been munching on them since the end of August.  We like them sun-kissed, right off the tree.  Such a treat, so crisp and sweet.  Gravensteins and Spartans are a nice combo to have growing in a garden because of their different ripening times, flavours and characteristics.

oh.oh.  Looks like  I’ll work on finding my inner Pomona today.  This is what happens when an apple tree gets overly ambitious and produces too much fruit for it’s own good.  We had some lovely sunny warm days when this tree was flowering so the bees were able to do a very good pollination job and the tree is heavy with apples.  I need to remember to be more careful about thinning and helping the fruit trees, just like Pomona would do….

Autumn in the garden, a time for me to appreciate the abundant harvests, a time to take stock of what was and contemplate what will be.  A time to regroup and organize, to reclaim some balance in life after the busy spring and summer.  A time to weed, clean and tidy up and prepare the beds for fall plantings (garlic!) and next spring’s plantings too. 
Taking a deep breath.  Happy fall equinox!

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  1. Anonymous says

    June 2, 2013 at 5:25 pm

    Your sprouted mixture is just great ! Got ‘em at Root Cellar, but I see other places closer to us also. Really, what a delight.

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Christina’s Garden is a small market garden on Mayne Island, one of the Southern Gulf Islands located in the Salish Sea between Vancouver and Victoria, BC, Canada.

We put love and care into producing a variety of delicious and nutritious shoots and microgreens for year round sales to Mayne Islanders and folks in Victoria and on the mainland. We also offer a variety of home grown vegetables, seasonal flower bouquets and bedding plants for home gardens at our roadside stand and the Saturday Market on Mayne Island.

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Christina Pechloff

I like to grow food and flowers so we can use them to make our lives delicious and beautiful.

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