Here we are at another first of the month … the day I reserve to confess one of my gardening oops – fondly known as GOOPs. Traveling has kept my hands out of in-the-dirt gardening for the past month but I still have a good faux pas to share.
The first of October brings my monthly post on gardening faux pas, or blunders, or oops – I'll call them gardening oops or GOOPs for short. I've gardened a long time and have taken many missteps along the way. On the first of each month I share one of my GOOPs with the hope that others might learn from, rather than copy, my missteps. If you are so inclined to join this GOOPs meme, simply share your GOOPs in a comment below or leave a link below to the GOOPs you've posted on your blog.
It won't be too long now before gardens in south-central Connecticut get nipped by frost, and that will be the end of juicy tomatoes such as these Sweet Million cherry tomatoes soaking up any last season sun.
September's cooler and invigorating temperatures brought me renewed energy to complete one summer project – deconstructing what had been my primary vegetable growing bed. The healthy soil I worked years to build up attracted an unwelcome underground element. Voles found whatever I planted - peas, beans, cucumbers, summer squash, or tomato, pepper, and eggplant transplants – a convenient meal. What voles ate we could not.
I started a lot of basil from seed this season, knowing pesto is a family fave. Son #2 would live on pesto, #1, 3, and 4 love the classic summer pasta dish nearly as much. I always plant enough basil in the ground and a similar amount in pots to insure I have enough for summer cooking, salads, pesto, and enough to freeze for winter use. Some years the in-ground basil thrives while the potted plants suffer, other years it's exactly opposite. This year Mother nature is surely watching over basil … I have more than enough to for all these uses … both in-ground and potted plants continue to thrive, thrive, thrive.
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