Fall Chores

Fall is here. The weather is great. The time to catch up on things that there was no time for and maybe no desire for in the summer is here. Pull up everything dead in the garden and put it in the trash can (not the compost). Clean up the green house and get it ready to use for the winter. Plant some fall flowers. Plant the fall garden. Take some cuttings from trees and vines before they go dormant. Over-seed the lawn Wow. I’m getting tired writing about it.

In our home there are a few extras. The compost system is getting raggedy and it is ugly and in the wrong place. A new one needs building. There were lots of junky trees in the back yard. They needed to come down. That means there is a lot of firewood to split. My wife wants a new front porch. She also wants a patio, where I wanted to put a garden. Her projects need to come before mine if I want to enjoy domestic tranquility.

Most of the first paragraph is finished. Some of the second paragraph is started. Prioritizing the tasks is almost impossible. They all need to be done before the weather gets cold. It is best to just do the hardest one first.



David Segrest is an International REALTOR in Charlotte, NC. His email is david@segrestrealty.com , His webpage is http://davidsegrest.com , and his international real estate blog is http://dointernationalrealestate.blogspot.com/

Seasonal Changes

The summer garden is looking a little shabby, but the fall garden is rockin’. The shabby garden is still delivering a few tomatoes, green beans and okra. The peppers are the real stars. The ghost peppers are such a pretty plant that they will get a place in the front yard next year. The pale green foliage contrasts nicely with the orange and red fruits.

The figs have slowed down to just enough to eat. That is fine because the mustard is almost ready to pick. The arugula will soon grace a salad along with the spinach and romaine lettuce. The mesclun will be a few more weeks. Leftover spring seeds were used for the sugar peas, so they need to be replanted. Germination was spotty.

Every year new tricks are tried, new lessons are learned. On the dark side, planting green beans and okra together was a disaster. The green bean are dragging the okra down and making both crops hard to pick. On the bright side, The 8’ fence worked to keep the deer out pretty well. It was a vinyl fabric fence and it is not holding up too poorly, but in the winter season it will be replaced with and 8’ fence covered with 2” X 4” wire.







David Segrest is an International REALTOR in Charlotte, NC. His email is david@segrestrealty.com , His webpage is http://davidsegrest.com , and his international real estate blog is http://dointernationalrealestate.blogspot.com/