This is the time of the waning crescent "balsamic moon" - the final yin phase, a pause that marks the end point in this cycle. Now we can ease off a bit on actively pursuing goals, slow down, go within, and attend to inner work, renewal, and self-care.
And this is the yin time of the waxing crescent moon, a phase of growth, when I am planting my intentions and caring for them. I'll take time to discern and create clarity.
1. October garden tasks:
The consistency of the 15-minute daily visit keeps me connected to my garden even when I don't accomplish much.
- Harvest peppers, beans, tomatoes, beets, carrots, raspberries
- Plant: broccoli, onions, garlic
- Seed Collecting and Saving: Look for native seeds.
- Sow Cover Crops: Chop plants to the soil line then broadcast red clover and fava bean seed to enrich and protect soil through the winter.
- Harvest my mason bees
2. This week's garden plan:
The next two days will be warm - up to 80ยบ - so I need to water all my newly transplanted starts.
- Th: Water starts in front; pot up bleeding heart for Denise; harvest peppers
- F: Water starts; duck care; compost
- Sat: (day off)
- Sun: Collect iris seed from Meeting; weed rose bed: Italian arum and creeping buttercup;
- M: Duck care; plant garlic and onions; harvest root crops; make pickled beets;
- T: Water fairy garden; weed rose bed, feed the birds; collect mulch for backyard; - transplant Oregon sunshine?
- W: Duck care; bindweed eradication (clear pallet etc); mulch flower bed with leaves
- Th: Loosen and mulch beds -plant clover; harvest sunflowers (save seeds) and feed the birds
- F: Duck care; prune hedge; compost
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