Accessible Gardening: More Disabled Gardeners Laughing With Joy ..2, 1 by seacanepain

seacanepain wrote:
Carrie, early October is simply the most beautiful time of year here. Summer and fall overlap a little. Most of the summer plants are still around but you can feel autumn in the air. The daytime temps are usually in the 70's or low 80's with cool nights. Everyone is gearing up for the Peanut Festival and in a festive mood. It is probably the most common time of year locally for outdoor weddings.

Vickie, Kay just ordered some persimmon and pawpaw seeds. I just passed on some muscadine seeds to a fellow DGer. My dearly beloved might be willing to share with the wildlife, but I think it is more for herself. Her mom was Native Anerican with a little Dutch thrown in somewhere back there. So eating all sorts of wild fruits and other wild edibles is something she grew up with. The acreage now called Amargia was once a particularly rich source of the wild edibles Miss Helen used in her cooking. I think it is a matter of restoring the land to the way it once was for Kay.

Miss Helen left her mark on Amargia. Our Thanksgivings still have the more Native American slant she gave to the holiday. Thanksgiving dinner traditionally consist almost entirely of wild foods and produce from the garden. We are more likely to have venison than turkey just because wild turkey are intelligent, wily birds that tend to elude the hunters that provide our meat course. I've come to enjoy it this way. It makes Thanksgiving dinner a totally different experience from Christmas dinner which tends to be more lavish and "store bought." (Jim)

Photo: Miss Helen