Fantastic fall

Despite all the rain in late spring and early summer, the gardens are parched now.

We watered through are gardens once and I have been keeping some rapairs on the garden damp with 15 minutes of watering every day.

But Nancy and I were repairing a neglected bed earlier this week and had to do some digging and dividing of plants. On the ones we dug up, the soil just crumbled out of the roots – and it was quite easy to separate the roots of the weeds and grasses from the roots of the plants we wanted to keep.

Once we were finished with the bed we totally soaked it.

The forecast calls for some rain on Sunday, which probably makes sense. I leave Friday for my annual fall fishing trip – always the last week in September. I can never get through this trip without a little rain. And since I am tenting, it gets a little uncomfortable sometimes. Maybe it will rain only in southern Maine and leave Somerset County alone.

So, I won't be posting again until probably Oct.6. I am hoping to catch at least one keepable salmon by Sept. 30 to eat outside the tent by the river. After that date it reverts to catch and release.

Last Sunday's column was about root cellars and storing vegetables in your home without freezing or canning. This coming Sunday it is about fall foliage in your own back yard.

So, for a couple of weeks this is it.