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Post by daylilydude on Sept 11, 2018 3:07:43 GMT -5
Are you happy when the gardening season is winding down or do you wish it would continue longer?
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Post by octave1 on Sept 11, 2018 8:51:22 GMT -5
Not happy, but when it's cold working outside is not enjoyable. So I am OK with staying in, and I don't think about the garden anymore.
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Post by meandtk on Sept 11, 2018 9:21:31 GMT -5
I tend to have mixed feelings. I'm glad for a break, but look forward to the next go around.
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Post by paulf on Sept 11, 2018 9:22:26 GMT -5
After 45 years of gardening with basically the same time frame, it is neither happy or sad, it is what it has been. I mimic my season changes...after the first frost it is time for me and my garden to rest up for next year.
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Post by pepperhead212 on Sept 11, 2018 9:48:03 GMT -5
Fall has always been my favorite season. Though some things are dying off, I still have new things out there, and I HATE HEAT!!!!! So even though I'm pulling a bunch of my favorite plants out, and won't be seeing them again for over half a year, I'm enjoying it, as a rule.
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Post by Laura_in_FL on Sept 11, 2018 10:08:39 GMT -5
Gardening never ends here; it just shifts to different veggies. Like this year, I often take a break in July and August when the heat and rain makes me miserable and most vegetables struggle. So September and October are almost like a second spring for me. Occasionally we will have a really cold year and I will lose a lot of the winter crops, and that does make me sad. But usually that doesn't happen. And even if it does, I don't have to wait long to replant. February for cool season crops or March-April for warm season crops.
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Post by ladymarmalade on Sept 11, 2018 10:22:40 GMT -5
The end of the garden is always sad, but for me I swap one hobby for another. As soon as the last bits of garden are tucked away for the season, I pull out my sewing supplies and play with that for a while. This year I'm not sad because I didn't have a gardening season. It will be annoying to do clean up because I'm cleaning up what I didn't get to harvest. But I'm excited about the plans for next year, so I'd just as soon get it over and done with.
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Post by bestofour on Sept 11, 2018 11:52:29 GMT -5
In my mind it never stops because I turn to planning for next season and what flowers are left blooming or things that need to be pruned.
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Post by horsea on Sept 11, 2018 12:02:22 GMT -5
Not sad; there's a good side - redesigning the garden once again. (I am one of those folks who is quite often moving the furniture inside the house around; same with the garden.) Hunting for new sources of organic matter to add to the beds is fun tho challenging. Also, as someone pointed out, it is an opportunity to get back to needlework. I started a sweater last February and I want to get the durn thing finished. No time for that during gardening season. PS. Winding down is a long process. In a sense, you are beginning to "wind down" when you harvest your first lettuces & green onions. The final winding-down for me is plucking the last flowers before a predicted frost and, finally my beloved WINTER SQUASH.
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Post by coppice on Sept 11, 2018 12:38:45 GMT -5
I built up a frame (and added lights) to dining room bench. I should all spin all year round now.
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Post by brownrexx on Sept 11, 2018 13:55:14 GMT -5
I wish that the growing season could be a bit longer but I am usually happy for the break. I like cooking comfort foods like soup and oven meals in the winter.
It seems like we wait so long to get everything planted and then the summer hits and then it is all over too soon. I could use another month or two of good growing weather.
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Post by september on Sept 11, 2018 14:12:30 GMT -5
I'm happy to have it end, I guess it is long enough on the fall end. But I sure would like it to start a month earlier in the spring when my enthusiasm is still high after a winter of being mostly house bound.
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Post by spike on Sept 11, 2018 18:45:32 GMT -5
Sadly this year I just want done with the whole disaster but normally it breaks my little heart when gardening is almost done.
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Post by carolyn on Sept 11, 2018 20:06:54 GMT -5
I am both. I do so much of it I am about worn out... I have customers from mothers day until the end of Sept. I do three farmers markets and bake twice a week for them for part of the Summer. I am so ready to be done with gardening but not Summer.
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Post by farmerjack41 on Sept 11, 2018 22:28:20 GMT -5
That is somewhat of a two sided coin for me. Love playing in the dirt and watching vegetables grow. A lot of work putting the garden to bed for the winter. Will be a lot of leaves to grind up, manure to spread and finally plow everything under. Had phone call, lady wanting to put in an order for 60 lbs of carrots for next year. Hard for me waiting at the end of winter, for spring to finally get here.
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