Link to the Show / Show Notes[HOST INTRO] For a gardener, October is the most bittersweet of months. There are days of Indian summer where it looks like the garden could last forever. Then, in one frosty night, the cold comes and it’s all gone.
You can fight the frost — but as correspondent Guy Hand finds in this installment of the Market & Garden Report — the more valuable lesson might be learning to let go.
(Rustling sounds) Hand: It’s a sunny October afternoon. But there’s a bitter bite to the air. So gardening instructor Josie Erskine is quickly picking tomatoes — ripe or not.
Josie: So we’re gleaning the plants today as much as we possibly can ’cause the frost is coming. So we’re getting everything that probably going to die tonight, the tomatoes and peppers and basil, beans, eggplants. It looks so beautiful and tomorrow at this time these plants will all be black and mushy.
Hand: Josie shields her eyes from a cold sun as she looks out over the garden.
Josie: Like tonight I’ll leave and I have these two rows of zinnias and right now they’re just brilliant colors: pinks and yellows and they just look like a Monet painting and tomorrow at this time [...]
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