Update: September 2021
Gardening Series, Part 19
Starting a Fall/Winter Garden
Can you believe it?! It's already time to talk to your gardening partner (we mean nature of course!) and get the information, order your seeds and plants, and prepare your soil for your fall/winter garden.
If you are in the Southern Hemisphere:
You should be well into getting the information for your spring/summer garden. For help with that, go to the beginning of our Gardening Series.
For us Northern Hemisphere folks . . .
Most likely, your summer garden is still going, but winding down. Nature will help you weave putting thesummer garden to bed with starting your fall/winter garden.
If you included extending your garden season into the fall and winter when you activated your garden's DDP, nature has already set up patterns and rhythms for that extension. But you will need additional information. For starters — what are you planting and where?!
If you didn't have a fall/winter garden in your plans, but it makes you smile to think of gardening in cooler, more pleasant weather conditions and growing fresh food for yourself through this next season . . .
Well, it's time to talk to nature about that now, before the fall season begins.
All Gardeners
The steps for doing this are all on one page in your Garden Workbook!
Read page 226 to the top sentence on p. 227 for your Fall/Winter Gardening Setup.
If you are a Winter Gardener who needs a rest. Read that section on page 227. It’s certainly fine to take a break — but you need to tell nature. They are your partner!
And if Winter Gardening was not included in your original DDP, but you are inspired and ready to garden, read pp. 227-228.
If you want to start your Co-Creative Gardening adventure with a fall/winter garden, by all means — do!
Just be sure you first activate your garden with the steps you’ll find here: Why I Bother from Machaelle Wright
And here: Your Garden Starts Now!
The Perelandra Garden Workbook
If you consider yourself "not a gardener" and still find yourself intrigued, or if a friend forwarded this article to you and you wish to learn more right now, you can get the ebook version of The Perelandra Garden Workbook by Machaelle Wright and start reading today. (It's also available in softcover or 3-ring binder format!)
This way of partnering with nature applies to every aspect of your life. If you feel the Garden Workbook is "too much gardening information" — consider getting the ebook version anyway. You'll be able to follow along with our tips and you can bookmark or print the pages that are helpful for the areas of life where you partner with nature. Because nature's definition of a garden is so much more than a plot of vegetables.
For All Who Care About Ecology
This isn't stuffy, hard-to-follow science — though the science-y, technically minded among you should definitely read this book. It's also for us Citizen Scientists who truly give a hoot about environmental balance and ecology. If you wish to better understand the intelligence in nature, if you want to grow in your co-creative partnership, if you consider yourself a "non-gardener" — you will benefit greatly from Machaelle's 25th anniversary edition of Co-Creative Science.
