Accent Your Garden

Leafing through an elderly woman’s recipe cards, we came across A Housewives Prayer: “Help me,” it read, “to concentrate today on the simple gifts you offer; the smell of my neighbor’s bubbling jam; the “hello” of the postman, the breeze that fluffs my wash on the line….”

Warm days and chilly nights signal the onset of fall. Preparing your garden for winter may be on you

Arnold Feliciano remembers fondly his days as a strolling troubadour, walking through restaurants singing love songs to couples over food. Now he is skipping the middle man: Feliciano starts his mornings by singing to a pumpkin. And the pumpkin clearly loves it: It is 3 feet tall and growing every day.

However, you will need to wait a few weeks to purchase transplants of cool season vegetables to stick in the ground. Start your late garden by removing summer crop residue. Take out the old tomato cages, remove the bean poles or trellises, and pull up plants that have died or stopped producing.

Arnold Feliciano remembers fondly his days as a strolling troubadour, walking through restaurants singing love songs to couples over food. Now he is skipping the middle man: Feliciano starts his mornings by singing to a pumpkin.