Garden Update - October 2019

- By Sn Paramjyoti Howe It’s harvest time!  All the effort over the summer with Niwas’ garden has come into full fruition in the last few weeks as we are producing more food than we can keep up with, making canning and other preserving a main activity.    We made tomato pasta sauce, plum sauce, apple sauce, Kale chips, and frozen carrot soup.   We picked edamame, and beets, birds nest gourds (that we will dry and then hang in the garden next year for the birds) and filled the greenhouse with pumpkins to finish off their ripening.  We picked onions, oh so many onions and now have them hanging in the kitchens for easy access and decorative storage.  And last, but defiantly not least, we harvested all the mountain corn, which is the most beautiful manifestation of corn we have ever seen (not to mention, a completely new corn on the cob eating experience that, I have to say, has become a new favourite).   I think the highlight of the garden this year, without wanting to offend any of the other amazing plants that offered their all, were the ground cherries.  These little lanterned orbs of gold were a regular post-dinner pilgrimage, our daily treasure hunt which was never in vein.  Needless to say, we are planning a bigger patch of them for next year.  And now, with snow on the ground we start planning for the years to come.  A beautiful reality of cycles and seasons.  We look forward to feeding you all from Niwas’ garden next year.