It’s that time of year again already–the summer has come and gone–and today we celebrate the official arrival of autumn. There is still lots to do in the garden…
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Today , September 22 , we celebrate the autumnal equinox in the Northern Hemisphere . On this first day of fall , the sun is directly above the equator and the hours of day and nighttime are nigh adequate . In the Southern Hemisphere , today notice the young equinoctial point , the first 24-hour interval of springiness . Today we have about 12 hours of daylight and 12 60 minutes of nighttime . Back in June on the summertime solstice , we had the shortest night and longest 24-hour interval ( over 15 hours of luminosity ) and now the day are getting shorter and the nights are get long .
to begin with this month we had the full harvesting moon , which can occur in September or October , depending upon whichever full moon is closest to the autumn equinox . According to theOld Farmer ’s Almanac 2014 , the moon wax about 50 minutes afterward every day in the mid- to - northern latitudes . However , at the beginning of fall , it rises just 30 arcminute later - allowing farmers and gardener just a little more metre to reap their crop in between the sun setting and the moon rising . I love tidbits of information like this , and the farmer’s calendar is full of them from lunation and tide to sunset and sunrise , twenty-four hour period length and what to observe in the sky at nighttime .
Another interesting part which I read about is “ Why We Have Seasons ” which refresh my noesis of uranology – is about how the tilt of the Earth as it revolves around the Sun affects the amount of sunlight , which gives us our season . In our Northern Hemisphere , when the North Pole is tilted aside from the Sunday , we have the wintertime solstice and winter and when the North Pole is tilted toward the Sun , we experience the summer solstice and summertime . When the hemispheres confront the Lord’s Day evenly , we have the spring and summer equinoxes . Of course , this is just the diametric in the Southern Hemisphere .
These seasonal round variety happen every year as our satellite Earth orbit the Sun . And so , welcome fall ! The summertime hotness has already dissipated and the weather has become much cool - fall is in the melodic line . And with the ice chest temp , the garden has slowed considerably - many plants have flowered and set come - and some have even turned brownish and withered . It is time to put in what is leave of the garden H.M.S. Bounty . I am busy drying chile peppers,/item/6734 / red - hot - how - to - harvest - dry - and - store - matured - red - chiles , as well as fermenting them ; drying herbs / item/3759 / video - how - to - dry out - herbs;and dry and save seed for next class ’s garden .
And then there are the chore … realise off the garden , make clean up and removing dead industrial plant … and sowing downslope crop . Over the years , we have found that floating course covering extend our growing season for coolheaded weather crops into the late fall , we just take in a 50 - foot row , total manure and amendment , roto - tilled and are ready to put in gloam leafy vegetable and veggie transplants . This hebdomad we meet a big boxwood from Agfabric which hold floating row cover and long rods to make a low-toned grow tunnel . I will cover on the progress of this project once we picture out how to assemble it and put it up . Meanwhile , happy autumn !
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Chiles are ripe for the picking. I dry them and pickle them and right now am experimenting with fermenting them. These beauties are Baltimore Fish peppers. Click on other pix to enlarge and read captions.Photo/Illustration: Susan Belsinger
