For many gardeners, autumn is the most beautiful time of the year: the golden rays of the sun fill everything around with a special soft light and warm us while working in the garden. Thanks to the hardworking hands of the bins of the owners at this time, all kinds of vegetables and fruits are filled.
The crop festival is not in vain precisely in the fall, because at any other time of the year, nature does not give us richer than in these months: in mid -August the first apples and pears ripen, the time of harvesting of cucumbers, potatoes and beans comes. In September, its pleasant aroma exudes an autumn onion, and in October the cellars are filled with pumpkin, carrots, cabbage cabbage and other delicious and healthy vegetables.
In the fall, when almost the entire crop has already been harvested, old grandmother’s recipes for processing vegetables and fruits become especially popular. So, canned goods are made from tsukini, white cabbage is salted, pale pumplings are pickled in vinegar, and plums in Roma are also cooked from them amazing tasty jam. As accepted additives to canned foods, spicy herbs are generously used, which give fruits and vegetables a piquant taste and a unique aroma.
However, the coming months are not limited to troubles in the kitchen, because in the fall you need to sow valerian, spinach and winter carrots, as well as plant onions. In addition, large pumpkin should be laid out on the beds for a straw litter, so that in no case do not damage the delicate peel of these giants. But garlic and winter onions can not be dug – then you will get fresh greens for salad in early spring.
Some plants only at low positive or small minus temperatures show their characteristic taste, for example, Grunokol’s leaf cabbage only frozen becomes sweet and especially tasty. In addition, lovers of thorny juice or liquor should collect wild fruits rich in vitamins only after the first frosts, when their unpleasant sour taste disappears, due to the high content of tannins. Tip: you can improve the taste of these blue berries, holding them for a couple of days in the freezer.
Carrots will be stored longer if you place it in boxes with slightly moistened sand and put in the cellar. Before that, the tops are removed from the root crops and they are cleaned of the residues of the Earth, but they do not wash!
Many varieties of vegetables are devoted to their colors and forms and also have an excellent taste, for example, round orange-yellow carrots “Atlas”
Until late autumn, red and Savoy cabbage, onions and salad can be removed from the beds.
Busy berries are collected in late August and September and syrup, jelly or liquor are prepared from them.
Когда дни становятся короче, фрукты, овощи и поздние цветы-летники, среди которых георгины, радуют нас своей яркой окраской.
Pasternak with his sweet-spicy taste is good in casserole and soups.
Home drainage is tasty in the form of juice and in the form of a filing, as well as as a blank for a pie. Children love to enjoy delicious juicy plums directly from a tree.
Calendula seeds in early autumn are chosen from dried flowers and stored until next year in a glass jar.
Apples, depending on the variety, ripen from August to November. Late varieties, such as Berlepsh or Bosop, become especially fragrant only a few weeks after they are removed from the tree.
Children are happy to help harvest – especially if you organize a picnic after that.
In the fall, you should also take care of preparing for the new garden season of sown areas that are not busy with autumn and winter landings. After harvesting the beds, the beds should be dug up in order to loosen large edges of the soil. Do this shortly before the first cold nights, since it is much harder to “work” with frozen soil.