🍂Fall Breeze & Autumn Leaves🍂
🍁Happy Autumn . September 22nd marked the autumnal equinox for the Northern Hemisphere. It was both the last day of summer and the first day of fall- a special transition for us at Smart Yards Coop and all in gardening world.
This transition is fun and with it, the sweet fruits as pomegranate, (punica granatum), pineapple guava (feioa acca sellowiana) and chayote squash all delicious and charged with health benefits. Check out HERE to see the health benefits of chayote squash and let Smart Yards Coop know if you'd like one to plant in your garden.
In addition to beauty and the health benefits for people, these plants also provide food for a variety our local song birds as Turdus migratorius (American Robin), tanagers, thrashers, orioles, mockingbirds and others. In honor of World Migratory Bird Day, this October 8th, we celebrate by providing habitat for those beautiful friends making their survival journey.
The abundance in one of our gardens. Photo by Elizabeth Sarmiento, September & October, 2022.
For Smart Yards Coop the planting of habitat, native, fruit trees, vegetable gardens- growing food season does not stop. We remove those corn, zucchini, pepper, tomato...plants to make compost and get ready for the cool season vegetable gardens for our homestead and some of you. There are quite a few cool season vegetable plants to plant now— even tolerating up to the upper teens temperatures. Linked HERE is a list for you to check out and plant or lettuce 😉 know if you'd like our team to bring plants and compost to get you going with your season garden.
For man, autumn is a time of harvest, of gathering together. For nature, it is a time of sowing, of scattering abroad.
― Edwin Way Teale