Everybody is waiting

As the summer draws to a close with the fall equinox coming in about 10 days, all of my friends and relatives are wanting more fruits from their gardens. The problem is the gardens are mostly gone from the heat of the summer.

I have one of the few gardens still in full bloom and my tomato plants have a lot of flowers and little tomatoes. My cucumber plants have small fruits on them and the lettuce is really growing. My beans look like they are getting ready to flower and have beans. My squash plants are loaded with flowers and tiny squashes.

However, the finality of the summer is evident in so many ways. The sunlight has shifted in my garden and I know if we are still in this house next year, I have to move the garden to a location where the sun is the same for the entire growing season.

It makes me want to move the garden to the hill on the side of the house and allow the sun to make the moves that it will inevitably make. I, like most people, never thought much about the earth sciences when I was in school. I was a biology, anatomy and microbiology person. I reveled in those type of things.

As the fall continues its path toward us, I know it is time to sit down and look at the production of this summer's garden. It is time to evaluate growing methods, seed cultivars, and other changes we have to make next year.

I know that I want to use the Grow Boxes again, I know I want my son Lane to design a better base for the cages (that will happen during winter break), and I know I can never go back to not having a garden again.

My garden is my Zen, my meditation, my peace.