Natural Gardening

I haven't done much gardening lately, alas, for a variety of reasons, although I've enjoyed reading about gardens.  All of my posts last year were on Places of the Spirit, I've realized.  A final harvest of kale and an early clean-up of the pocket meadow has been about it.  We didn't return to Asheville from Quebec until mid-October, too late to sow greens, unless I was going to use winter cover, which I'm not planning to do this year.   Seasons in the past have given us fabulous spinach, from seeds sown in late October and mid-November, then harvested through winter. Mild weather this Christmas week will give me time for a final tidying of the raised vegetable beds, getting them ready for a spring garden of greens, spinach, lettuce and the like. I'll plan on sowing and putting in transplants in mid to late March. The light yesterday afternoon was beautiful reflected on the house, as we left for a walk along the French Broad River.  Always nice.