Doug Smith
Sounder Contributor
November, we’re well into fall and the leaves have finally decided to call it a day and make for the ground to be raked up, wrapped up and used in the garden beds once they break down.
The leaves aren’t the only things wrapping up, so is canning and preserving season. Larders are filled up for winter and the garden beds mulched. Even the beds that will house over wintering crops.
It was a tremendous year for tree fruit, even the fig tree did what we were told it couldn’t do. Figs set fruit before they even put on leaves, they then set a second round of fruit a little later in the year. We were told that our growing season wouldn’t last long enough for this second set to ripen. So far that rule has held true but this year we got a second helping of figs. Apparently they weren’t kidding when they changed Gabriola’s hardiness zone to 9a this year, something one would usually find in the mediterranean.
Even though we just wrapped up the 2025 gardening season there’s still work to do. The next couple of months are a time to reflect on the year’s successes, discuss changes to hopefully lessen the failures and when seed catalogues start arriving, plan for next year. Tools will need some TLC because come January it all starts over with pruning the fruit trees and the first of a month and a half of seedy Saturdays.
We still have one more GGC get together before the end of the year. December 4th we’ll be at the Rollo centre for an evening social.
No speaker this time, it’s just we gardeners sharing tales from the garden.
See you there at 6:30. We wish you all the best of the season!
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