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August 04, 2005
Fresh Ideas for Fall
THE leap is infectious. It's only fair that you should know. The first time you order seeds from a catalog will not be your last. These tiny, enigmatic packets of life arrive by mail in homely manila envelopes, delivering one of the gardener's happiest and holiest moments of the year.
... The garden cliché in the East and Midwest — curling up in an armchair beside a fire, sipping cocoa and poring over seed catalogs on a blustery February day — can still be part of your yearly regimen, but in a summery, Southern California way.
While the majority of the nation's gardeners spend the weekend toiling in a stifling, dank, mosquito onslaught, you, oh wise one, can loll under a poolside umbrella, sipping a mojito, scanning seed catalogs and dreaming of autumn days.
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While those other gardeners bust their humps bringing in a single harvest before the first frost, you get to fantasize about the cool, crisp snap peas your second harvest of the year will produce. You can imagine your fall-winter garden providing chervil, radicchio and butter leaf salads — picked, rinsed, tossed, dressed and enjoyed right there on the patio under mild November skies.
Posted by Sue at August 4, 2005 11:38 PM
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