Helen Chesnut's Garden Notes: Fall sparks compulsion to reorganize, simplify and streamline

Cooling temperatures and shrinking daylight hours always trigger in me a sense of a new year beginning. Perhaps it’s a remembering of my own school and university years, the years of teaching, and those of sending my own children off to start a new school year.

I’ll soon be taking my sketch of this year’s food garden plots out into the garden, along with a rough sketch for 2023, to begin pencilling in changed placements for my major planting blocks: shelling peas; carrots and beets; onions and leeks; tomatoes; kale; summer squash; winter squash. The strawberry patch has been halved in size and thinned to reduce the work involved in maintaining the patch and to make space for a new prune plum tree in that sunny corner beside the compost enclosures.

For decades, two Clematis montana vines have clothed a simple gazebo-like structure in the centre of the back garden, covering it with pink flowers in May. As with the fuchsias, the vines failed to green up properly in the spring.

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