On our lists, still: collecting some seeds of natives to sow later and cleaning and preparing tools for storage; lifting tender bulbs and tubers to stash; where to overwinter the nursery pots of things we bought that never found their permanent home in the ground (oops).
Ken Druse, author of 20 garden books and an old friend, is back today to help with the countdown, and especially to remind himself and me and all of us not to get lulled into procrastination, even if it has been in the 60s some days here the last week. (That’s his spade getting ready for some wire-brushing, steel-woolling and oiling, above.)
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cleaning tools, stashing bulbs & more, with ken druseKen Druse: Margaret, you’re reading my mind again.
Margaret Roach: Yeah, I know it’s kooky, right [laughter]?
Ken: Maybe you’re reading every gardener’s mind.
Margaret: Yeah. The weather certainly does not give us the usual signals that I used to expect by this far into November, that’s for sure.
Ken: Well, usually by this far into November, we’re freaking out completely cause we haven’t done anything.
Margaret: Right.
Ken: And, we are in Indian summer here because we had killing frost and then we have the warm temperatures above 60.
Margaret: Yeah. I’m going to go up into the
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