Home Garden Tour - in Autumn Light

Dear Family & Friends

Here's our home garden in autumn season. Come with me as I bring you around for a tour.

The autumn air is cool and the sun is constantly shinning...what more could I ask for:)

The 3 years old row of fruit trees in front of the barn have yet to give us decent fruits...but perhaps next year is the year. The fruit trees will be maintained as dwarf with dual purpose of shielding the barn front with some shade.

An enormous 12 foot tall cherry tree was in front of the house and we chopped it down recently because we worried about the roots growing too close to the house foundation, plus it was always attacked by pest after another...so, we had to make the sad decision:(

The vegetable garden patch is chaotic with it's productivity...there's still a lot of harvest going on. Some bare patch, where plants ran out of it's life cycle, is now sown with cool season vegetable seeds. The duck pen is just next to the patch, they keep watch of the garden. As for the garden chair...no, it is not for the gardener's rest and recreation pleasure...it's really used by the girls to climb onto to harvest our daily figs from the trees:)

This year, we had a lot of grapes harvest too....80 percent of the 12 grapevines are now fruiting, giving us at least 6 different sorts of grapes...at this time, all fruits have already been harvested. The grapevines are now looking tired as they prepare to drop off their leaves to hibernate for the cold season ahead. Underneath our mini vineyard, we planted lemon grasses, chard, mini pumpkins and tomatoes, all still giving.

There are still a lot of colours from various flowers planted amongst the herbs that's scattered everywhere in the garden. As I water the garden, the perfume of flowers and herbs - mixed together - fills the air. There's a lot of very busy bees and butterflies foraging for their food...I see about 5 species of bees at least and that includes our honey bees...and a few more species of butterflies bringing interest to our almost wild garden.

The grass lawn is getting super long...no one's cutting it down...our excuse is we need it long before we cut it for hay to mulch the garden and for chicken nesting boxes. We don't really use the lawn area and I want to turn this into a mini fruit orchard.

The sunset against the back of the house and the blue sky promises yet another beautiful day tomorrow...I would like to stay in the garden a bit longer but I think it's time to go inside the house now. 

Hope you enjoyed the little tour with me...tomorrow is another day's work and I wish you a good weekend.

Yours