Enjoy The Fruits of Your Labour

Throughout the entire year so far, you’ve been digging, cultivating, sowing, planting, pruning, thinning and harvesting in your garden, and thus been enjoying the most interesting and rewarding part of the year. But now it gets dark early, the usable time is only a fraction what we are sued to, and the skies lokk quite grim often enough.

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Then this is the time to reflect: what went well, and what hasn’t been so successful after all. Unless you like it the hard way, you should repeat growing plants in your garden, which like the conditions of your garden environment, and which grew and fruited well. And on the other hand, there is always a reason why some varieties didn’t do so well. So, unless you can figure out what the reasons were and how to fix it, just make it easier for yourself and void growing these “difficult” fruits and vegetables in your garden.

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But this is also the time to celebrate and enjoy the fruits of your labour: vegetables and fruits you have harvested and put into proper storage, like apples and potatoes. There is usually also a lot of harvested goods you will have preserved in jars and other containers, well prepared and well sealed, so that they can last. So enjoy yourself and pick one of the lovely, stored apples you have grown in your garden this summer. Open a jar of self made pickles or help yourself to a glass of your self made sloe gin or peppermint liquour.

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And then – last but not least, this is the time to think ahead and make plans of what to grow and how to grow it in next year’s growing season. Browse through catalogues and order seeds per mail order. Sketch out your veggie beds including what you are planning to grow in which section.

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And don’t forget: lean back, relax, have something from your harvest and be proud of yourself. Enjoy the fruits of your labour.