I have ONE plant left to get into the ground. (A York elderberry from the 50% off wagon at the garden center). In the last couple weeks, I planted 36 plugs of groundcover, 2 elderberry, a kiwi, a galliarda, 2 aronia berry, a pot of weld. I have potted up 2 fig trees for winter storage, and upsized the pots for my grapevines and schisandra (apso for winter storage). I still need to winter-pot the passionfruit vine.

I am hauling the spent tomato and bean vines and cornstalks out of my garden bed, and once I get it cleaned out, I need to pot up a whole bunch of seeds and bury the pots for winter stratification. I need to do this with:

• Russian Mulberry (food)
• Lilliflora Magnolia (pretty/pollinators)
• Staghorn Sumac (attractive/edible)
• Blackberry lily (pretty/pollinators)
• Black Raspberry (food/ biodiversity)
• Soapwort (soap, pollinators)
• Kousa dogwood (attractive, pollinators, food)
• Paperbark Maple (attractive, shade, bioderversity, conservation)

There are others I will need to do similar with later into the fall, but these ones need to be started soon.

The winter’s wood will be here within a week or so and will need to be piled.

We finally ordered the wood for the kids’ play structure and will need to get that started.

The summer things (toys, skeetervacs, chairs, etc) will need to be stowed away

I need to contact the junk man and have our growing pile hauled off.

We need to get the battery into the tractor and see if it will run.

I need to get the van’s windshield replaced as we took a rock off the gravel truck and it cracked.

All the little and not-so-little things that must be done before too much time goes by….

All the same, it is the first week of  October and we have had neither frost nor hurricane. We’re doing well.