With this end of season approaching, the garden peaks, roadside stands and farmers’ markets are brimming over with fresh produce.
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It is that time of year again . Already , decrease is in the atmosphere . With the fresh crisp feel of fall and the coolheaded days , it makes us forget about those broiling spicy summer days we just had with little pelting . The garden is crispy brown in some place . Fruits are shrink on the vine and production is slowing down ; it makes me find wistful . The Canada geese are vanish over in the evening and then again in the morning in the other charge ; they go from cornfield to lake and back again . I have to go around the mansion at night and shut the windows and for the past week I have been slumber under two lightweight mantle . Where did the summertime go ?
With this end of season approach , the garden peaks , roadside stands and husbandman ’ markets are brimming over with fresh produce . At this breaker point we are taking summer good tomatoes for yield and many of us have been trying to give our nimiety zucchini and cuke to anyone who will take them . Corn and melons are starting to scat gloomy , peaches too , and now mums and apple are appearing everywhere . I am trying to eat my fill of the last sweet corn , love apple sandwiches , sweet voluptuous peaches and cantaloupes before they are go . September and October are harvest months when we get together the last of the summer garden bounty to savor at the table and to preserve for the come wintertime calendar month . While we harvest the last of the peppers , tomato , eggplants , corn , mash , and beans , the decline crop are just starting to go far . Chile peppers are at their acme , so gain the harvest or visit your local Fannie Merritt Farmer mart and put some of them up for wintertime . Roast and skin chiles while they are abundant and freeze them or make salsa , put up some mess and relish and freeze farm - refreshing maize that wo n’t be available in the winter months . habituate the Harlan Stone fruits of summer — peaches , Prunus persica nectarina , apricots , and plum — in cobblers , chip , cake , and pies , and preserve their sweetness in jams , jellies , even vinegars .
It is clip to lionise the time of year with the last of the garden ’s bounty . Gather these fruits of the earth , along with admirer and house , and enjoy the flavors of summertime before they ’re gone!TheThree Sisters Sauterecipe meld a traditional native American trio of veg with the chile harvest . Known as the “ three baby ” , clavus , beans , and squash racquets are often planted together . The genetic allusion refer to how they calculate on one another and coexist . hill are made in the garden and two or three Indian corn seeds are implant in the center . Once the corn germinates , four bean are sow around the clavus face up the four key direction : north , south , east , and Mae West . The attic sprout and their vines grow up around the corn using it for financial support . Around the base of the hammock on four sides , the squash vine are planted ; they not only provide shade and act as mulch for the agglomerate , their huge leaves and scratchy stems and stalks deter varmints from munching on the bean and corn . This dish is as colored as it is tasty !
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Three sisters garden at the Ozark Folk Center, Mountain View , Arkansas. This is the traditional Native American way of growing corn, beans and squash together. Click on pix to enlarge and read captions.Photo/Illustration: Susan Belsinger
