Conventionally, the year has 4 seasons, Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter amd there are different opinions on when each starts and ends - calendar, meteorological, solstice/equinox - take your pick.
As you would expect, I'm different. My year has 3 seasons, each of 4 months and roughly linked to calendar months.
Season 1 is March - June until the Summer solstice, while daylight hours are lengthening. A time for sowing summer crops - tomatoes beans and squashes etc. For setting up propagators and greenhouses a time of promise.
Season 2 is after the solstice to October - daylight hours are diminishing. Time for harvesting and preserving, when all your good efforts are rewarded. Also of sowing for winter, especially the veg that prefer short days, and those that overwinter.
Season 3 is November - February. Short days and long nights. Time for planning, tidying and preparation and putting your feet up with a seed catalogue.
I'm quite excited at moving into Season 2. I've packed away all the spring sown seeds until next year and am pulling out the oriental veg, fennel, spinach and spring cabbage seeds in readiness for the next round of sowing.
Am I the only one who thinks like this - or am I as nutty as you keep telling me?
As you would expect, I'm different. My year has 3 seasons, each of 4 months and roughly linked to calendar months.
Season 1 is March - June until the Summer solstice, while daylight hours are lengthening. A time for sowing summer crops - tomatoes beans and squashes etc. For setting up propagators and greenhouses a time of promise.
Season 2 is after the solstice to October - daylight hours are diminishing. Time for harvesting and preserving, when all your good efforts are rewarded. Also of sowing for winter, especially the veg that prefer short days, and those that overwinter.
Season 3 is November - February. Short days and long nights. Time for planning, tidying and preparation and putting your feet up with a seed catalogue.
I'm quite excited at moving into Season 2. I've packed away all the spring sown seeds until next year and am pulling out the oriental veg, fennel, spinach and spring cabbage seeds in readiness for the next round of sowing.
Am I the only one who thinks like this - or am I as nutty as you keep telling me?
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