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TILLING THE SOIL

Today is the day that the summer flowers get pulled.

The land lies fallow.

The weed seeds get to sprout and then overturned. The soil gets to aerate.

Time for the zinnias to disappear; the viney "red-apple" things in the front to get refurbished. They are neither red nor do they even approximate apples. I suspect a corruption of the translation from spanish to english.

Whatever they are called, in a few weeks, new viney plants will be put in and they will last through next summer.

At the same time we will put in the petunias which will last through winter if there is no killing frost like last year.

Zinnias return in April.

Rotation of crops!

Labels: horticulture, seasons