Second Spring

Eliot Coleman likes to call Autumn, the "second Spring". That is how it felt while working in the garden Sunday morning. The sun was shining, but not too hot, and the bug count was definitely down.

I transplanted the 9/2 lettuce to 4 per square spacing, a total of about 100 plants. I also harvested beets, carrots, kale, lettuce, basil, green beans, and yellow pear tomatoes. After a little work, the beech seedlings that have been straining under wire mesh finally have room to grow again. A total of 76 beech seedlings have survived which will potentially provide more than 200' of hedge.

I ordered some agricultural cloth in preparation for covering everything at the beginning of October. This cloth will then be covered by plastic in November and another layer of plastic in December. Based on the Four Season method, this should allow us to harvest greens into December and January and provide a significant head start in the Spring.