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Seasonal Shift

Sunday, October 11, 2026 0:01

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At last, the temperature pattern has changed. It was an overnight change, not a gradual one. We were still pushing almost 90°F (32°C) everyday up through the first weekend of October. Then a front pushed through and the temps have been lovely since then. And the pattern is holding.

So it feels like autumn, even though it doesn’t look like autumn, except for the mistflowers and golden rod, and a few swirls of windblown leaves beginning to fall.

Mistflower

The harvest is wrapping up. It was a good year for muscadines.

I have about two gallons of these in the freezer. I’ll probably use them for both wine and jelly.

It’s breeding season for the goats. The bucks are constantly on the lookout for the does. Behind their little barn is their best spot for catching a glimpse of the girls.

Ralph and Jonah

The girls, on the other hand, are only interested when they’re in heat, which occurs about every three weeks. Otherwise, they are busy hunting acorns.

Lily, Nora, Saluda, Willow, and River, way off in the background.

The boys are out of luck until November. The timing of breeding is based on making sure the kids are born in mild weather.

I’m still getting a few things from the garden. Like okra.

Jing okra. It turns green when cooked.

Groundhogs (which are still a problem) destroyed much this year, including demolishing our peas and lettuce. Of the sweet potatoes, they continually munched off all the leaves, so that the plants had little time to actually make sweet potatoes. Here’s my total harvest.

Some of them are pretty sorry looking, although the goats won’t mind those. I should probably just plant the best ones in pots to overwinter.

One thing the groundhogs didn’t touch was the winter squash.

sweet potato squash flower with pollinator

Gracie showing us the green squash she found

It’s been an excellent year for winter squash

I love this variety. I still have three or four almost mature ones left to pick. We eat the small green ones chopped fresh in salad or steamed or sauteed like summer squash.

The groundhogs haven’t touched the green beans either, although perhaps because they are pole beans.

I planted them in late spring, but they have been very slow to produce.

Our first picking was just the other day.

My slicing tomatoes are done, but our volunteer cherry tomatoes are still producing. You may recall I mentioned my fermented cole slaw, in which the fresh cherry tomatoes are wonderful.

I’ve also taken to adding my hard cured goat cheese, grated. Such complimentary flavors! This is currently our favorite salad. At least until the greenhouse lettuce is big enough to eat.

As I write this, the remnants of Hurricane Isaias have been raining all day, with more to come all night. The rain is welcome and needed. So it’s been an indoor day.

Gracie and Violet

How about you? Do you still have a garden? Or are you done for the season and getting ready for winter?

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