November is still a busy month in the kitchen garden. Many would say November is the most important month–now is the time to prepare the soil for next spring and afterwards put the garden to bed for the winter. (Of course, winter vegetable gardening can be very rewarding. So if you are continuing the fresh…
November
November Garden in the Northern Hemisphere
If Novem is the Latin word for nine, then why is November the eleventh month of the year? It all started in 46 B.C, when Julius Caesar asked the astronomer Sosigenes to review the calendar and improve it. Calendars are systems for measuring and recording the passage of time. Nature gives us a regular sequence…
November Garden in the Southern Hemisphere
November is one of the most beautiful months of the year in the southern hemisphere. The cold is gone but summer’s intense heat has not yet arrived. The trees and grass are green. The forsythia and dogwood are in bloom. The birds have built their summer nests, and the first crops in the vegetable garden…
Fresh Harvest November’s End
The sky might be darkening, but there is still plenty to enjoy from the harvest. The first Mandarin oranges of the season are coming to market now. There are several varieties of Mandarin–some are sweet and some are tart. Members of the Mandarin orange family include clementine, dancy, satsuma and tangerine. Most of the Mandarins…