Our community garden plot had to be dismantled today. Per the organizations rules we had to restore our little patch to it's pre garden state so after church we all went up. The sun was out, the weather was warmer than yesterday. The apple festival was still going on though on a smaller scale (KC pointed out that there was no bounce house today so he was really glad we went yesterday!) The music from the festival drifted down to us while we worked pulling out the stakes, removing the frost bitten plants and hauling out the landscape cloth.
It was sad to see the garden season over, particularly as it was not a spectacular season of production. But that is what gardening is about. The vagaries of the seasons and soon winter will be upon us and I'll sit with seed catalogs and dream of a lush, successful garden for 2010. For now, I was happy that our whole family was involved in the dismantling. KC couldn't bring himself to help, so he sat in the van and drew while the rest of us did the grunt work. He was grossed out by frost bitten tomatos and couldn't get past the ook factor of that! Chet did really well helping and Miss Lissa could haul the stakes over to the car after I yanked them out of the ground. She may call herself a princess, but she does love to garden. Rob is always a good gardeners assistant and the whole job was done in just under an hour.
I confess to a wee bit of garden jealousy though when I read blogs where folks live in climes that permit near year round gardening. I'd so love that, but when your spouse wants to retire to Maine, you have to know it isn't likely in your future!
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