A Clean Slate for Spring
Posted by: TammyI got a little behind on cleaning up my garden for the fall. You don’t want to get sweaty and dirty in the garden when you don’t have a way to take a good, long hot shower to get clean. Now that we’re back on the grid, I’m catching up on the yard work.
I spent the better part of an afternoon pulling up my tomato cages and removing the tendrils of the sugar snap peas and pole beans from the vertical fences. I had watched the tendrils climb slowly, and then more quickly up the galvanized steel all summer. We had enjoyed the fruit of those vines into the late fall until the deer ate them up! Now I had to unwrap the stalks and clean the slate for spring.
I’ll miss all the green in my garden. I’ll miss harvesting the vegetables and fruits. I have my cold-frame this year to help feed my gardening addiction. I know the seed catalogs will begin arriving just when I get desperate. Those clean, empty vertical fences speak to the promise of another spring when little green shoots can begin climbing up towards the warmth of the sun. They’ll carry my spirit up with with them after a long winter.